LITERATURE 2022 UTME PAST QUESTION

1. ‘but there was a stillness about Ralph as he sat that marked him out; there was his size and attractive appearance; and most obscurely, yet powerfully, there was the conch. The being that, had sat waiting for them on the platform with the delicate thing balanced on his knees, was set apart. Golding, Lord of the Flies.

In the passage above, the conch symbolizes

A. Bestiality
B. Authority
C. Dictatorship
D. civilization

2. the old Squire is portrayed was an implacable man he made resolution in violent anger, but he not moved from them after his anger subsided as fiery as volcanic matters cool and harden into rock George Eliot, Silas Marner in the statement above, the Squire is portrayed as a

A. kind and generous friend
B. father to everyone in the community
C. miserly and ungracious ruler
D. quick and tempered and adamant man

3. I’m not going to be drawn into that old trap of an argument and be picked up by the tail like some wet rat out of a sewer. The speaker in the statement above is been

A. Symbolical
B. Analogical
C. Metaphorical
D. Parabolical

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4. The mood captured in the lines above is one of

A. Fear
B. Happiness
C. Indifference
D. joy

5. the literary device used is

A. parallelism
B. irony
C. onomatopoeia
D. repetition

6. those years of my travels. Years of innocence and experience … months of twidding my thumbs with insecurity. In search of my true people. But wherever I want did not find people but caricatures of people who insisted on being taken seriously as people. Perhaps I was on the wrong planet. In the wrong skin. Dambudzo-Marechera, Black Sunlight. The passage above expresses the state of mind of

A. an alienated man
B. an adventurer
C. a renegade soldier
D. a prisoner

7. ‘if I can fasten but one cup upon him with that which he had drunk tonight already He I be as full of quarrel and offence As my young mistress’dog Shakespeare, Othello from the statement above it can be inferred that the speaker is

A. Disobedient
B. Quarrelsome
C. Servile
D. scheming

8. that is why we must accept the universal done because there is no direction. The bridge is the dome of religion and bridge done just go from here to there; a bridge also faces backwards’ Wole Soyinka, the interpreters. The idiolectal feature of the character’s speech is the

A. repetition of constant sounds
B. multiplication of medical consonant sounds repetition of initial constant sounds
C. duplication of consonant sound clusters

9. it was January and Monday, I began to understand. After every weekends, my father had to gather his nerve to go back to teaching, during the Christmas vacation he became slack and in a fury of screw-turning had to retighten himself. The long haul he called the stretch between Christmas and Ester. John Updike, the Centaur. The long haul in the narrative above describes

A. a long strike
B. Christmas and easter holidays
C. A long period of hard work
D. A long vacation

10. ‘fierce harmattan sun on innocent tendrils; torrential downpour on leaking thatch roofs, painful comfort of helpless eunuchs; thorny beauty of modern

A body of imaginative man and woman of letters is generally referred to as

A. Litterateurds
B. Laureattes
C. Literaria
D. Literati

12. A poem written to celebrate one’s wedding is

A. A pastoral
B. An epithalamium
C. A prothalamium
D. A terza rimna

13. An iambic metrical foot consist of

A. an unstressed syllable following another unstressed syllable
B. a stressed syllable following another stressed syllable
C. an unstressed syllable following another unstressed syllable
D. a stressed syllable following an unstressed syllable

14. empathy is achieved when the audience

A. feels betrayed by the director
B. denounces and humiliates the protagonist stage experience
C. attacks the character foil
B. denounces and humiliates

15. the overall design of a drama to which all other components, relate is its

A. catharsis
B. exposition
C. structure
D. symbol

16. what does the protagonist do in a picaresque novel?

A. He embarks on a journey
B. He slows down the narration
C. He draws illustrative picture
D. He becomes an artist

17. In the plot of a novel emphasis should be placed

A. Showing casual connection of incident
B. The vivid connection of incident
C. The accurate presentation of incidents
D. Narrating the truth of incidents

18. An irredeemable reversal of the hero’s fortune in a tragedy is called

A. Anagnorisis
B. Peripeteia
C. Purgation
D. hubris

19. a system of plot development which creates the future through anticipation and through memory is

A. déjà vu
B. avant- garde
C. mendieval
D. mataphysical

20. a limerick has

A. ornate style, humour,irony and seven lines
B. humour, rhyme scheme any our Scheme five lines
C. formal and elaborate style and humour
D. a stinging climax, rhyme scheme and five line

21. why did Catherine refuse to marry Heathcliff?

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

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

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

23. One of the universal themes of the novel is

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

24. The theme 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

25. 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

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

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

27. What do the 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

28. 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

29. who must the narrator fight one on one at the battle royal

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

30. Whose ‘word keep the nigger boy running’?

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

31. “The Lion and The Jewel” by wole Soyinka

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

32. In “ A Midsummer Night’s Dream” Hippolyta is the queen of

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

33. One of the themes of “ A midsummer Night’s Dream’ is

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

34. An elegy is a poem that mourns for the

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

35. 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

36. How could you have done this to us? “after all, we have friends who though 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

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

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

38. ‘The Jewel” in Wole Soyinka’s “The Lion and the Jewel” is

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

39. “The Lion and the Jewel” is a novel based on

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

40. In “ A Midsummer Night’s Dream” , who complained of his daughter’s refusal to marry Demetrius

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