Post Utme Literature in English Past Questions and Answers

Question 136:

Out, out, thou strumpet fortune! All ye gods,

In general synod, take away her power;

Break all the spokes we from her wheel.

And bowl the round knave down the hill of heaven

As low as to the friends

In the same lines, the device adopted in talking of fortune is ____________

A. Pomposity
B. Analogy
C. Axiom
D. Personification

Question 137:

The rivers and streams shrank, vaporized into a leaven that horded the precious drops: beast and man panted in the heat; the earth's surface wore wrinkles and deep cracks, parched and devoid of a blade of green nature.

The description above is concerned with ____________

A. Famine
B. Drought
C. Forest fires
D. Ravages of war

Question 138:

Luggard wants to capture the Caliphate so that it will not fall into the hands or authority of _____________

A. Americans
B. Frenchmen
C. German
D. Italians

Question 139:

The land dispute in the play is inserted to demonstrate _____________

A. The authority of the Caliph over all land matters
B. The unreasonableness of Sarkin Zango and Sarkin Fatake
C. The judicial wisdom of the Caliph
D. The importance of arable land in the Caliphate

Question 140:

Questions are based on William Shakespeare's "Hamlet"

Ber: sit down awhile and let us once again absail your ears, that are so fortified against our story What we have two nights seen.

The speaker and his friends have seen ____________

A. A soothsayer foretelling the death of Polonius
B. A ghost
C. A heavy mist surrounding the castle
D. A witch flying in the dark