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UNN Post UTME Past Questions for Literature-In- English 2005/2006

Indicate the correct option I each following questions.

1. In Bennis Brutus’s “a troubadour Travserse,” the poet
A. Sees his country as wild and undeveloped.
B. Loves his country in spite of the difficulties he faces there.
C. Hates his country because it is run by dictators.
D. Does not care about what happens to his country.

2. Ofeimun’s “we must learn to fly”
A. Expresses hope in the future
B. Pretends that all is well with his country
C. Urges the reader to accepts his misfortunes
D. Blames foreigners for the problems of his peoples.

3. In Moton’s “on his blindness” the poet
A. Expresses a deep anger with God for making him blind
B. Believes that anyone who goes blind must beg.
C. State that even with blindness one can still serve God
D. Believes that blindness is a just punishment for sin.

4. In Kela’s “on the grasshopper and crib” the poet
A. Sees these insect as nuisance which should be eradicated.
B. Emphasizes that each is active in different time of day.
C. Describes the difference in the physical features
D. Establishes the fact that the insect lives on nectar

SECTION B

5. “And their sun does never shine and their fields are bleak and bare. And their ways are filled with thorn it is eternal winter there” Blake

The dominant literary device employ in the above lines is
A. Apostrophe
B. Allusion
B. Simile
D. Repetition

6. “Cruelty has a human heart and jealously human terror

From the lines above Blake’s perspective on man is
A.        inspiring
B.        hopeful
C.        gloomy
D.        fortunate

7. “The curfew tells the knell of parting day.
The lowing heard wind slowly over.
The plowman homeward plods the way, and leaves the world to darkling me” – Gray.

The time of the capture in the lines above is:
A. Early morning B. mid-afternoon
C. Sunday D. evening

8.”Air love let us be true
To one another for the world which seem
To lie before us like a land of drams
So various, so beautiful, so new
Hath really better joy, nor love, nor light
Nor certificate nor peace not help from pans…”

The tone or mood expressed in the lines above is
A. Optimistic B. elated
C. Melancholic D. expectant

SECTION C: DRAMA AND FICTION

Question 9-10 are based on Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’ Urbervilles”

9. John Durbeyfield’s action of ordering a carriage on learning of his noble ancestor instead of walking home shows that
A. He will become a night like his ancestors.
B. He has inherited a great fortune
C. He is rather foolish and easily carried away
D. He will soon become the May of Mariot

10. “daze my eyes…” said Durbeyfield, “and here have I been knock lug about you after year, form pillar to post, as if he is more than the commonest feller in the parish…”

From the statement above, the reader can deduce that the society in which Durbeyfield lives is
A.        Very rural and undeveloped
B.        Class consciously
C.        Oppressive
D.        Superstitious

Questions 11-12 are based on William Shakespeare’s Hamlet”

11.       When Ophelia tells her father hamnlet’s love interest in her, he
A.        decides to send Ophelia to England
B.        Ask the queen to speak to hamlet and encourage him.
C.        Tells Ophelia to stop further contact with hamlet
D.        Encourage Ophelia to love hamlet

12. Polonius: yet here Laeters? Aboani, boar for shame!.
The wind fits in the shoulder of your sail and your are stayed for Polonius is sending his son to
A. Witterenberg B. Sweden
C. Ireland D. France

SECTION D. GENERAL LITERARY PRINCIPLE

13.       A literary work which is a mocking unit of anoteh work is called
A.        A copy-write           B. a slander
C. pornography              D. a parody

14. A literary work whose meaning can be understood at two different levels is called
A. biography B. epic
C. free verse D. allegory

15. A subordinate or minor multiple running through a work of fiction is called
A. an underdevelopment
B. an understatement
C. parallelism
D. subplot

LITERATURE 2005/06 ANSWER

1. B 2.A 3.C 4.B 5.D 6.C 7.D 8.C 9.C 10.B 11.C 12.D 13.D 14.D 15.D

UNN Post UTME Past Questions for Literature-In- English 2006/2007

Questions 1-3 are based on “the search” by Chukwuemeka Ike.

1. The novel. The search by Chukwuemeka Ike can be described as a ….
A. Fiction B. non-fiction
C. Historical novel D. biography

2. The theme of the novel is
A. The Nigeria civil war
B. The devastating effect of ethnic religious Chauvism and national integration and stability.
C. The arrogance of the Moslem Hausa/Fulani ruling class
D. Why people in coup D’etat in religion

3. The greatest obstacle that Oka Akigba thinks stands between him and full integration with the whole northern elites is.
A.        His ability to speak Hausa fluently
B.        His being married to a minority northern woman.
C.        His not belonging to Moslem religion
D.        His open condemnation of the northern

In questions 4 and 5, fiction is one of the three classifications in literature. The others are

4. A character B. poetry
C. tragedy D. comedy

5. A. drama B. plot
C. mime D. flask back

Questions 6 to 11 came form the poem below

Eat of this poem 1 offer
Like an apple
Fliched from the tree forbidden
Eat of it, swallow it sour wholesomeness
And your eyes will fast
Shed scales snakes mouth
Awake to the evil contraction
That emasculates the many agonizing
People and empowers few despoiling lords.

6. What figure of speech is contained in the live “eat of this poem 1 offer”?
A. Simile B. metaphor
C. euphemism D. irony

7. In the poem there is an allusion to
A. the way people enjoy eating apples
B. The enjoyment derivable form eating poems
C. the biblical apple eaten by Adam and eve
D. the danger posed by snake.

8. the poem can have the following effects on the reader except
A. creates awareness
B. gives pleasures
C. warns of the dangers of snakebites
D. highlights the class difference in Nigeria

9. The expression “the tree forbidden” line an example of
A. allusion B. metaphor
C. simile D. Synecdoche

10. What sound device is used in the line “fliched form the tree forbidden”?
A. onomatopoeia B. Rhyme
C. alliteration D. consonant

11. “evil contraption” in the poem means
A. Evil done by Nigeria elites
B. the unjust and inequitable
C. the poem itself
D. the Nigeria society filled with all kinds of evil

Identify the figure of speech used in each sentence

12. The moon has gone to bed

A. Synecdoche
B. oxymoron
C. Personification
D. comedy

13. More hands are needed for the job.
A. tragedy B. metaphor
C. alliteration D. synecdoche

14. O lord bless this house
A. apostrophe B. assonance
C. simile D. climax

15. The mad dog, James, is at it again.
A. simple B. comedy
C. oxymoron D. metaphor

SUMMARY OF ANSWERS (LITERATURE OF 2006/2007)

1. C 2. A 3. C 4. B 5. A 6. B 7. C 8. C 9. A 10. C 11. A 12.C 13. D 14. A 15. D

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