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All topics Drama: types and elements · 38 Dramatic techniques · 44 Figures of speech · 44 General literary terms · 40 Literary appreciation: unseen poetry · 29 Literary appreciation: unseen prose · 29 Poetry: imagery, sound and structure · 34 Poetry: types and forms · 30 Point of view and narrative techniques · 27 Prose: plot, setting and characterisation · 29 Prose: types of fiction · 26 Set poems: African poetry · 10 Set poems: Non-African poetry · 17 Set text: A Man for All Seasons (Robert Bolt) · 9 Set text: An Inspector Calls (J. B. Priestley) · 10 Set text: Antony and Cleopatra (Shakespeare) · 13 Set text: The Marriage of Anansewa (Efua Sutherland) · 4 Set text: To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee) · 14

Question 421· Set text: Antony and Cleopatra (Shakespeare)· WAEC
Antony's servant who kills himself rather than kill his master is
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Answer: D. Eros
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Question 422· Set text: Antony and Cleopatra (Shakespeare)· WAEC
The action of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra moves mainly between
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Answer: A. Rome and Egypt
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Question 423· Set text: Antony and Cleopatra (Shakespeare)· WAEC
Early in Antony and Cleopatra, Antony receives news of the death of his wife
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Answer: A. Fulvia
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Question 424· Set text: Antony and Cleopatra (Shakespeare)· WAEC
Cleopatra takes her own life by
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Answer: A. the bite of an asp
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Question 425· Set text: Antony and Cleopatra (Shakespeare)· WAEC
The asps that Cleopatra uses are brought to her by
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Answer: D. a countryman (clown) in a basket of figs
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Question 426· Set text: Antony and Cleopatra (Shakespeare)· WAEC
Enobarbus deserts Antony for Caesar but soon dies of grief after Antony
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Answer: D. sends his treasure after him
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Question 427· Set text: Antony and Cleopatra (Shakespeare)· WAEC
Antony loses the sea battle of Actium mainly because
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Answer: D. he follows Cleopatra's ships when they flee
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Question 428· Set text: Antony and Cleopatra (Shakespeare)· WAEC
Antony decides to take his own life after
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Answer: A. Cleopatra sends him false news of her death
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Question 429· Set text: Antony and Cleopatra (Shakespeare)· WAEC
The famous description of Cleopatra on her barge on the river Cydnus is given by
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Answer: C. Enobarbus
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Question 430· Set text: The Marriage of Anansewa (Efua Sutherland)· WAEC
Efua Sutherland's The Marriage of Anansewa is written in the form of
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Answer: A. Anansegoro, a storytelling drama
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Question 431· Set text: The Marriage of Anansewa (Efua Sutherland)· WAEC
In The Marriage of Anansewa, the character who links the scenes and comments on the action is the
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Answer: B. Storyteller
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Question 432· Set text: The Marriage of Anansewa (Efua Sutherland)· WAEC
To escape the trap he has set for himself, Ananse
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Answer: C. pretends that Anansewa has died
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Question 433· Set text: The Marriage of Anansewa (Efua Sutherland)· WAEC
In The Marriage of Anansewa, Ananse plans to
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Answer: C. marry his daughter to the richest of several chiefs
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Question 434· Set text: To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)· WAEC
In To Kill a Mockingbird, Tom Robinson is falsely accused of
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Answer: C. raping Mayella Ewell
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Question 435· Set text: To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)· WAEC
Atticus Finch, Scout's father, is a
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Answer: C. lawyer
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Question 436· Set text: To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)· WAEC
After his trial, Tom Robinson dies when he
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Answer: B. is shot while trying to escape from prison
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Question 437· Set text: To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)· WAEC
Mrs Dubose, to whom Jem reads as a punishment, was fighting an addiction to
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Answer: C. morphine
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Question 438· Set text: To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)· WAEC
In the novel, killing a mockingbird is called a sin because mockingbirds
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Answer: B. only make music and do no harm
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Question 439· Set text: To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)· WAEC
Atticus surprises his children by showing skill when he
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Answer: A. shoots a mad dog in the street
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Question 440· Set text: To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)· WAEC
Evidence at the trial that Tom Robinson could not have beaten Mayella includes the fact that
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Answer: D. his left arm was crippled
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JAMB and WAEC Literature in English questions

Antony's servant who kills himself rather than kill his master is

The action of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra moves mainly between

Early in Antony and Cleopatra, Antony receives news of the death of his wife

Cleopatra takes her own life by

The asps that Cleopatra uses are brought to her by

Enobarbus deserts Antony for Caesar but soon dies of grief after Antony

Antony loses the sea battle of Actium mainly because

Antony decides to take his own life after

The famous description of Cleopatra on her barge on the river Cydnus is given by

Efua Sutherland's The Marriage of Anansewa is written in the form of

In The Marriage of Anansewa, the character who links the scenes and comments on the action is the

To escape the trap he has set for himself, Ananse

In The Marriage of Anansewa, Ananse plans to

In To Kill a Mockingbird, Tom Robinson is falsely accused of

Atticus Finch, Scout's father, is a

After his trial, Tom Robinson dies when he

Mrs Dubose, to whom Jem reads as a punishment, was fighting an addiction to

In the novel, killing a mockingbird is called a sin because mockingbirds

Atticus surprises his children by showing skill when he

Evidence at the trial that Tom Robinson could not have beaten Mayella includes the fact that