Literature in English Past Questions

This question is based on Zaynab Alkali's The Stillborn.
What is the most striking feature of the setting in the novel?

This question is based on Zaynab Alkali's The Stillborn.
The dialogue at the end of the novel reveals

This question is based on Zaynab Alkali's The Stillborn.
The two major pervasive sources of social problems in the community of the stillborn are

This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et al (eds.): New poetry from Africa, Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa, K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.
In my last Duchess', the poet complains about the Duchess'

This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et al (eds.): New poetry from Africa, Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa, K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.
'BEHOLD her, single in the field,
You solitary Highland Lass!
Reaping and singing by herself;...
O listen! for the Vale profound
Is overflowing with the sound.'
The lines above from William Wordsworth's 'The Solitary Reaper' constitute

This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et al (eds.): New poetry from Africa, Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa, K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.
What notion dominates Oswald Mtshali's 'The washerwoman's Prayer'?

This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et al (eds.): New poetry from Africa, Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa, K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.
The recurrence of the first person pronoun 'I' in Gabriel Okara's 'The callof the River Nun' creates the feeling of

This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et al (eds.): New poetry from Africa, Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa, K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.
The phrase, 'pressurized good-breeding' from Wole Soyinka's 'Telephone Conversation', refers to the

This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et al (eds.): New poetry from Africa, Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa, K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.
The disenchantment in Kofi Awoonor's 'Songs of Sorrow' is best explained by the

This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et al (eds.): New poetry from Africa, Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa, K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.
The tone of 'They Too are the Earth' by Osundara is

This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et al (eds.): New poetry from Africa, Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa, K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.
What is the dominant poetic device used in Christopher Okigbo's 'Hurrah for Thunder?

This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops To Conquer.
Mrs. Hard: ..Anybody that looks in his face may
see he's consumptive.
Hard: Ay, if growing too fat be one of
the symptoms.
Mrs. Hard: He coughs sometimes,
Hard: Yes, when his liquor goes the wrong way
Mrs. Hard: I'm actually afraid of his lungs.
Hard: And truly so am I;...
What takes place immediately after this brief exchange?

This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops To Conquer.
'...My son is not to live by his learning. I don't think a boy wants much learning to spend fifteen hundred a year.'
What provokes this response from the speaker is the accusation that

This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops To Conquer.
Mr. Hardcastle asks Young Marlow to leave his house because

This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops To Conquer.
The comic in the play is found in the

This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops To Conquer.
One of the enriching factors of the comedy is the

This question is based on Wole Soyinka's
The Trials of Brother Jero.
The most sensitive of Jero's disciples is

This question is based on Wole Soyinka's
The Trials of Brother Jero.
Jero's opening speech in the is a

This question is based on Wole Soyinka's
The Trials of Brother Jero.
CHUME: Who said you were? Does the prophet live here?
SAME MAN: Yes. Over there. That house
CHUME: So...so..so...s...
Chume's reaction in the exchange above reflects