Literature in english WAEC past questions and answers

Literature in english WAEC past questions and answers

Question: Who wrote the novel "Pride and Prejudice"?

a) Charles Dickens

b) Jane Austen

c) Emily Brontë

d) Mark Twain

Answer: b) Jane Austen

Question: In which Shakespearean play does the character Hamlet famously utter the phrase "To be, or not to be: that is the question"?

a) Macbeth

b) Romeo and Juliet

c) Hamlet

d) Othello

Answer: c) Hamlet

Question: Which dystopian novel features the fictional government known as "Big Brother"?

a) 1984 by George Orwell

b) Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

c) Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

d) The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

Answer: a) 1984 by George Orwell

Question: Who is the author of "To Kill a Mockingbird"?

a) J.K. Rowling

b) Harper Lee

c) Ernest Hemingway

d) F. Scott Fitzgerald

Answer: b) Harper Lee

Question: What is the title of J.R.R. Tolkien's first book in "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy?

a) The Two Towers

b) The Fellowship of the Ring

c) The Return of the King

d) The Hobbit

Answer: b) The Fellowship of the Ring

Question: In which novel does the character Jay Gatsby throw extravagant parties in the hope that his lost love, Daisy Buchanan, will attend?

a) The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

b) The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

c) Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

d) The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Answer: a) The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Question: Which famous detective is known for his address at 221B Baker Street?

a) Sam Spade

b) Hercule Poirot

c) Sherlock Holmes

d) Philip Marlowe

Answer: c) Sherlock Holmes

Question: What classic novel tells the story of the orphan Pip and his growth and personal development?

a) Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

b) Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

c) Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

d) Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Answer: c) Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Question: Who wrote the play "Romeo and Juliet"?

a) William Shakespeare

b) Oscar Wilde

c) Anton Chekhov

d) Tennessee Williams

Answer: a) William Shakespeare

Question: In Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451," what does the title refer to?

a) The boiling point of water

b) The temperature at which books burn

c) The ideal room temperature

d) The year the story is set in

Answer: b) The temperature at which books burn

Question: What is the name of the ship in Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness"?

a) The Black Pearl

b) The Pequod

c) The Nellie

d) The Hispaniola

Answer: c) The Nellie

Question: Which author is known for creating the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes?

a) Agatha Christie

b) Arthur Conan Doyle

c) Dashiell Hammett

d) Raymond Chandler

Answer: b) Arthur Conan Doyle

Question: In George Orwell's "Animal Farm," what animal does Napoleon represent?

a) Horse

b) Pig

c) Chicken

d) Sheep

Answer: b) Pig

Question: What is the opening line of Charles Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities"?

a) "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."

b) "Call me Ishmael."

c) "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth."

d) "All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

Answer: a) "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."

Question: Which novel is set during the American Civil War and follows the lives of two families, the Wilkses and the Feathers?

a) Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

b) The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

c) Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

d) Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Answer: c) Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

Question: Who wrote the play "The Importance of Being Earnest"?

a) Oscar Wilde

b) George Bernard Shaw

c) Henrik Ibsen

d) William Shakespeare

Answer: a) Oscar Wilde

Question: What is the name of the fictional African country that serves as the setting for Chinua Achebe's novel "Things Fall Apart"?

a) Wakanda

b) Zamunda

c) Umuofia

d) Elbonia

Answer: c) Umuofia

Question: In J.D. Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye," what is the protagonist Holden Caulfield's famous phrase?

a) "Seize the day."

b) "Catch me if you can."

c) "All the world's a stage."

d) "Phony!"

Answer: d) "Phony!"

Question: Who wrote the classic Gothic novel "Dracula"?

a) Mary Shelley

b) Bram Stoker

c) Edgar Allan Poe

d) H.G. Wells

Answer: b) Bram Stoker

Question: What is the title of the first book in J.K. Rowling's "Harry Potter" series?

a) Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

b) Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

c) Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

d) Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Answer: b) Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone