LITERATURE 2022 UTME PAST QUESTION

1. Midsummer Night’s Dream is what type of play?

A. Tragedy
B. Farce
C. Comedy
D. tragicomedy

2. one of the following terms applies to the discussion of both tragedy and comedy

A. climax
B. happy ending
C. tragic hero
D. alliteration

3. maya Angeolu ‘Caged Bird’ is referred to as an allegory because

A. it teaches moral
B. it is a fable
C. it is metaphorical
D. it is a short poem

4. why did Nii in ‘Unexpected Joy at dawn’ decide to come back to Nigeria?

A. He has missed home
B. He is the only son
C. He was offered a job
D. He came to rejig his life

5. The dominant feeling in Leopold Seder Senghor’s ‘Black Woman is

A. Joy and satisfaction
B. Nostalgia
C. Sadness and hatred
D. Despair

6. A play is drama because

A. It is written in verse
B. It can be acted on stage
C. It contains characters
D. It does not contain any story

7. In H.lawrence’s ‘Bat’ the line ‘hang themselves up like an old rag indicates the poet’s ________ for bats.

A. Love
B. Hatred
C. Kindness
D. Acceptance

Question 8 and 9 are based on Buchi Emecheta’s “second class citizen”

8. In Adah’s view, the white society in the novel is one in which

A. There is communal feeling
B. Neighborliness is lacking
C. Neighbor live happily
D. Members are unfriendly

9. To raise the reader anxiety about the story, the author sometimes

A. Stops the main story to narrate other events
B. Create a lot funny episodes
C. Puts too many difficulties in Adah’s way
D. Shows that francis is weak

Question 10 to 12 are based on Emily Brote’s “Wuthering Height”

10. Why did Catherine refuse to marry Heathcliff?

A. Heathcliff is of a low class
B. Heathcliff is blind
C. Heathcliff is not educated
D. Heath is her cousin

11. “ I could not picture a father treating a dying child as tyrannically and wickedly as I afterwards learnt Heathcliff had treaded him” who said this?

A. Edgar Linton
B. Hindley
C. Heathcliff
D. Nelly

12. One of the universal themes of the novel is

A. Vengeance
B. Property and inheritance
C. Religious hypocrisy
D. Marriage

13. The themes of a literary work is the

A. Dominant pre-occupation of the work
B. Interesting issues raised in the work
C. Different views on a particular topic
D. Psychological issue in the work

14. The use of first person singular in the book indicates

A. Omniscient point of view
B. Flash back narrative technique
C. Foreshadowing narrative technique
D. Participant point of view

15. Invisible Man refers directly to the identify of which character

A. The narrator
B. Dr. bledsoe
C. Narrator
D. Norton

16. What do gold coins the boys must scramble for at the battle royal turnout to be

A. Chocolate candies
B. Wooden coins
C. Brass pocket token
D. Pennies

17. Where is the narrator asked to give his high school graduation speech?

A. Town hall
B. Leading man’s fraternity
C. Town’s most expensive restaurant
D. Ballroom of the leading hotel

18. Who must the narrator fight one on one at the battle royal

A. Tatlock
B. Juck
C. The M.C
D. His friend

19. Whose ‘word keep the Nigger boy running’?

A. Tatlock
B. His father
C. His grandmother
D. Mr. norton

20. What is the name of the brothel/gambling joint to which the narrator bring Mr. Norton

A. Golden Day
B. Golden hour
C. Happy day
D. Halley’s pace

21. The author thematic concern is

A. Overcoming deception to reach the truth
B. The ability to rise above defeat
C. Relationship between the black’s and whites
D. Actualizing one’s dreams

Question 22 to 26 are based on William Shakespeare “ a midsummer night’s dream”

22. ;Ay me, for aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love, never did run smooth……..” The image in the question above depicts the speaker’s

A. Hatred
B. Desperation
C. Love
D. disregard

23. ‘Lord, what fools these mortals be!’ in the line above, the character is

A. Expressing the behavior of the lovers
B. Expressing the exaggerated the love between the two lovers
C. Expressing the love between the two lovers
D. Expressing the gift of God in their lives

24. The tradition verse form of speech as dialogue in ‘the midsummer night’s dream’ is used to symbolize the

A. Impressiveness of the character
B. Intense feelings of the characters
C. Traditionality of the play
D. Function of poetry in the play

25. Duke Theseus ‘Hippolyta, I woo’d thee with the sword And won thy love doing thee injuries, But I will wed thee in another key, With pomp, with triumph, and with reveling. Duke’s statement above means that he

A. Makes trouble to see Hippolyta
B. Jumps the fence to see Hippolyta
C. Should be injured by Hippolyta
D. Will win the love of Hippolyta

26. ‘the midsummer night dream’ is preoccupied with the juxtaposition of

A. Death and disappointment
B. Love and hate
C. Appearance and reality
D. Love and death

Question 27 to 33 are based on selected poems from the list of approved African and Non-African poems

27. In Augustine Neto’s “The Grieved lands’ dramatic and emotive intensity is derived from the employed of

A. Repetition
B. Double rhymes
C. Assonance
D. End rhymes

28. What is the central theme in Niyi Osundare’s ‘The leader and the led’?

A. Power tussle
B. Hypocrisy
C. Leadership
D. Fellowship

29. The rhyming pattern in the last stanza pf Lade Wosomu’s ‘reider of the treasure trove’ makes the stanza

A. An octave
B. A quatrain
C. A couplet
D. A sestet

30. The theme of beauty and strength in ‘black woman’ by Leopold Senghor is a

A. Dramatic poem
B. Narrative poem
C. Short poem
D. Negritude poem

31. Oumar Farouk Sesy’s ‘the song of the woman of my land’ portrays a society that is

A. Tough with woman in olden days of African society
B. Hunted by the evil land
C. Gripped with fear
D. Unstable

32. In ‘Raider of the treasure trove’ by Lade Wosomu, ‘the gems of your dreams’ in line 2, the poet is describing

A. The cost of anger in man’s life
B. Homily to eschew anger
C. The value of life
D. A man’s purpose being the reason for his life

33. From the tone of Onu Kingsley Chibuke’s ‘a Government Driver on his Retirement’, words, such as ‘boozed’, ‘boomed’, make it

A. Happy
B. Sorrowful
C. Indifferent
D. Joyful

Question 34 to 40are based on general literary principles

34. The most important concept on poetry are

A. Strong and action
B. Plot and rhythm
C. Rhythm and imagery
D. Plot and character

35. The terms rhythm and imagery are more particular to poetry. The literary device which anticipates that an event will take place is best described as

A. Foreshadowing
B. Rising action
C. Flashback
D. parody

36. the flat character in a literary work

A. is the same as the round character
B. cannot be found in an allegory
C. is capable of growing
D. always embodies a quality

37. the overwhelming pride that destroys the tragic hero is called

A. tragedy
B. nemesis
C. cathersis
D. hunbris

38. a farce refers to a drama that has elements of the

A. serious
B. satire
C. comic
D. tragic

39. catharsis is experienced

A. after one has written a play
B. when a play is still being staged
C. before watching a play
D. after watching a play

40. an extended fictional narrative which is realistic is known as a

A. diary
B. novel
C. novella
D. short story