Literature in english NECO past questions and answers

Literature in english NECO past questions and answers

Question: Which novel features the character Jean Valjean, an ex-convict trying to lead an honorable life?

a) Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

b) Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

c) War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

d) The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Answer: b) Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Question: In Ernest Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea," what type of fish does Santiago spend days trying to catch?

a) Marlin

b) Tuna

c) Shark

d) Swordfish

Answer: a) Marlin

Question: Who wrote the play "The Glass Menagerie," which explores the lives of the Wingfield family?

a) Eugene O'Neill

b) Tennessee Williams

c) Arthur Miller

d) August Wilson

Answer: b) Tennessee Williams

Question: What is the title of Margaret Atwood's dystopian novel set in the Republic of Gilead?

a) The Testaments

b) Oryx and Crake

c) The Handmaid's Tale

d) Alias Grace

Answer: c) The Handmaid's Tale

Question: In F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby," what is the occupation of the narrator, Nick Carraway?

a) Journalist

b) Stockbroker

c) Writer

d) Bond salesman

Answer: d) Bond salesman

Question: Who wrote the Southern Gothic novel "A Streetcar Named Desire"?

a) William Faulkner

b) Tennessee Williams

c) Flannery O'Connor

d) Harper Lee

Answer: b) Tennessee Williams

Question: Which Shakespearean play features the character Shylock, a Jewish moneylender?

a) Romeo and Juliet

b) Othello

c) Macbeth

d) The Merchant of Venice

Answer: d) The Merchant of Venice

Question: What is the title of the novel that follows the life of Scout Finch and her brother Jem during the Great Depression?

a) Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee

b) To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

c) The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

d) The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

Answer: b) To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Question: Which author is known for creating the detective Hercule Poirot?

a) Agatha Christie

b) Arthur Conan Doyle

c) Raymond Chandler

d) Dashiell Hammett

Answer: a) Agatha Christie

Question: In the novel "One Hundred Years of Solitude," who is the patriarch of the Buendía family?

a) José Arcadio Buendía

b) Aureliano Buendía

c) Úrsula Iguarán

d) Amaranta Buendía

Answer: a) José Arcadio Buendía