LITERATURE 2021 UTME PAST QUESTION

1. Essentially, plays are meant

A. To be read for sheer pleasure
B. To make us laugh
C. To make presented on stage through word and action
D. To keep people out of trouble

2. In ‘Black Woman’ Sadar Senghor expresses

A. Hatred for African woman
B. Dislike for African beauty
C. Beauty of African woman
D. Joy of African man

3. Rose Lee, Jim Bono and Gabriel Maxson are character in

A. Look back in anger
B. Fences
C. Second-class citizen
D. Invisible man

4. ‘the sweet special scene,Rural scene, a rural scene, Sweet especial rural scene,’ (from Binsey Popler (felled 1879) by Geralds Manley Hopkins) In the poem, the repetitive pattern suggests

A. Heights of the fallen trees
B. Shows how inconsolable the poet-persona feels about his fallen trees
C. Show how the poet-persona loves to fall tree
D. He loves trees with sweet fruits

5. The language of Augustino Neto’s “The Grieved lands of Africa suggested

A. The beauty of African country side
B. That black is beautiful
C. That the poet is painted by wrongs done to the African in past
D. That the poet sees African as a colonial power

6. In ‘The leader and the lad’ , Niyi Osundare writes ‘But the impalas at his lethal appetite ‘A little bit of a lion ‘A little bit of lamb The figure of speech

A. Metaphor
B. Simile
C. Irony
D. synecdoche

7. in H. Lawrence’s ‘BAT’ , the poet expresses

A. his love for bats
B. his love for swallows
C. his hatred for swallows
D. his disgust for bats

8. persona refers to the

A. Central character in a play
B. Voice of the character
C. Image a character presents
D. The personality of a character

9. On Dykan Thomas ‘Do not go gentle into that Good Night’ , the following lines occur’ ‘grave man near death, who see the with blinding sight ‘curse bless me now with your fierce tears, I pray. The figure of speech used in the above lines is

A. Oxymoron
B. Alliteration
C. Litotes
D. me

10. ‘The Lion and the Jewel’ by wole Soyinka

A. Baroka is socialist
B. Baroka is democratic ruler
C. Baroka is a dictator
D. Baroka is a monogamist

11. In ‘ A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ Hippolyta is the queen of

A. Thenians
B. Romans
C. Celes
D. Amnzon

12. One of the themes of ‘A midsummer night’s dream’ is

A. How to become a duke
B. The defeat of evil by god
C. Romantic love as a blind force that can be cruel and forgoing
D. Night dream

13. An elegy is a poem that mourn for the

A. Deceased
B. Bereaved
C. Accused
D. King

14. The main purpose of drama is to

A. Tell the story of dead people
B. Teach us how to write
C. Educate us
D. Educate and entertain us

15. How could you have done this to us? ‘after all, we have friends who through may be living in slums like this still live apart from this type of people’ The speaker of the speech in the novel ‘second-class citizen’ is

A. Adah
B. Francis
C. Mama
D. Peggy

16. The author of ‘let me die alone’ is

A. Shakespeare
B. Kolosa John Kargbon
C. Chimmanda adichie
D. Buchi Emecheta

17. ‘The Jewel’ in Wole Soyinka’s ‘The lion and the Jewel’ is

A. Sadiku
B. Baroka
C. Sidi
D. Lakunle

18. ‘the Lion and the Jewel’ is a novel based on

A. Cultural clash
B. Politics
C. Folktales
D. Traditional marriage ceremonies

19. In ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ who complained of his daughter’s refusal to marry Dematrius

A. Duke of Athens
B. Egens
C. Theses
D. Shakespeare

20. O! take the sense sweet, of my innocence love takes the
Meaning in love’s confidence
I mean, that my heart unto yours is knit
So that but one heart we can make it;
Two bosoms interchained with an oath;
So then two bosoms and a single troth
Then by your side no bedroom me deny;
For lysing so Hermia, I do not lie
These words are spoken by

A. Lysander
B. Hermia
C. Oberon
D. Titania

21. Hermia refused to marry Dematrius because

A. Dematrius is blind
B. Demetrius is of a lower class
C. She is in love with Lysander
D. She is in love with Theseus

22. ‘Scornful Lysander! True, he hath my love And what is mine my love shall render him And she is mine, all my right of her, I do estate unto Demetruis” In the quote, Egenus sees his daughter, Hermia as a

A. Maid
B. Good daughter
C. Mere property
D. Slave

23. Which group of character appear in ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’

A. Duncan, Macdoff Theseus
B. Shakespeare, Egeus, Hermia
C. Macbeth, Hermia, Dematrius
D. Lysander, Hermia, Egeus

24. The Duke of Athens plans to marry Hippolyta when

A. He lost his wife
B. He defeated Hippolyta in a war
C. Hippolyta assisted him
D. He saw the beauty of Hippolyta

25. ‘So fairly fancy few would weave in these years!’ The peotic device consciously used here is

A. Personification
B. Apostrophe
C. Alliteration
D. Oxymoron

26. A technique by which a previous scene or action can be recalled in play to shad light on the present action in

A. Climax
B. Flashback
C. Interlude
D. Catharaia

27. ‘he glanced at his bitten nails, and with his chin resting on his knees said ‘well, I ask them to let me go below to visit my Pa in the cell they feel sorry for me, and say it’s okay. So I go down to see him. This man that make my Ma’s life a misery like hell, and who never had a word for me, and did nothing but give me the belt.” From what he says, the kid in the passage

A. Loves his father
B. Dislikes his father
C. Disown his father
D. Feels sorry for his father

28. ‘was it so hard, Achilles. So very hard to die? Thou knowest and I know not So much the happier am I’ This verse is taken from a poem written by soldier at the battle front. He clearly sees dying in battle as

A. Glorious
B. Patriotic
C. Brave and desirable
D. A good experience

29. ‘cheers!, said Koomson. He looked to add something as he raised his glass, but the high voice of his wife cut the air to pieces.’ ‘This local beer’ , she was saying, ‘does not agree with my constitution,’ ‘and what sort of constitution is it that you have? Asked the man from his isolated place. What the writer feels toward the woman in the passage is

A. love
B. sympathetic understanding
C. contempt
D. respect

30. ‘ But it had been from the first her great mistake to meet him, to marry him, to love him as she so bitterly had. Looking at his face, it sometimes came to her that all woman had been cursed from the cradle; all in one fashion or anther being given the same cruel destiny, born to suffer the weight of man’ The sentiment expressed her about the curse on woman is

A. That of the writer of the passage
B. That of the lady in the passage
C. That of the lady’s parents
D. That of an unwanted person

Passage for question 31-33 Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness. Close bossom friend of the mating sun; conspiring with him how to load and bless. With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run; to bend with apple the moss’d cottage-trees, and fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; to swell the gourd and plump the hazel shells with a sweet Kernel; to set budding more,’ and still more, later flowers for the trees until they think warm days will never cease for summer has O’er-brimmed their clammy cells.

31. The most important figure of speech in the above passage

A. Paradox
B. Personification
C. Metaphor
D. simile

32. the above passage derives its theme from

A. the repetition of nature images
B. contrastive use of image
C. the consistency of its rhyme scheme
D. the use of the same figure of speech.