SS1 first term literature in english past questions and answers

SS1 first term literature in english past questions and answers

Here are 20 literature in English questions for SS1 (Secondary School 1) with options and answers:

Question: Who is the author of the novel "Things Fall Apart"?

A) Wole Soyinka

B) Chinua Achebe

C) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

D) Buchi Emecheta

Answer: B) Chinua Achebe

Question: In the play "Macbeth," what title is given to Macbeth before he becomes king?

A) Duke

B) Thane of Cawdor

C) Prince

D) Earl

Answer: B) Thane of Cawdor

Question: Who wrote the poem "The Waste Land"?

A) T.S. Eliot

B) Robert Frost

C) W.B. Yeats

D) Langston Hughes

Answer: A) T.S. Eliot

Question: Which literary device involves giving human characteristics to non-human entities?

A) Simile

B) Metaphor

C) Personification

D) Alliteration

Answer: C) Personification

Question: In "Romeo and Juliet," what is the name of Romeo's closest friend?

A) Mercutio

B) Benvolio

C) Tybalt

D) Paris

Answer: A) Mercutio

Question: What is the central theme of George Orwell's "Animal Farm"?

A) Love and Betrayal

B) Corruption of Power

C) Quest for Identity

D) Nature's Majesty

Answer: B) Corruption of Power

Question: Who is the protagonist in the novel "To Kill a Mockingbird"?

A) Atticus Finch

B) Scout Finch

C) Jem Finch

D) Boo Radley

Answer: B) Scout Finch

Question: Which African country is the setting for Chinua Achebe's "Arrow of God"?

A) Nigeria

B) Ghana

C) Kenya

D) South Africa

Answer: A) Nigeria

Question: In Shakespeare's "Hamlet," who is Hamlet's mother?

A) Ophelia

B) Gertrude

C) Desdemona

D) Lady Macbeth

Answer: B) Gertrude

Question: What is the literary term for a long speech made by a character alone on stage?

A) Monologue

B) Soliloquy

C) Dialogue

D) Aside

Answer: B) Soliloquy

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

A) Jane Austen

B) Charles Dickens

C) Emily Brontë

D) Charlotte Brontë

Answer: A) Jane Austen

Question: In the poem "The Road Not Taken," the speaker makes a choice between two:

A) Jobs

B) Cities

C) Roads

D) Friends

Answer: C) Roads

Question: What is the genre of the novel "1984" by George Orwell?

A) Science Fiction

B) Dystopian Fiction

C) Historical Fiction

D) Mystery

Answer: B) Dystopian Fiction

Question: Who is the author of the play "Death of a Salesman"?

A) Tennessee Williams

B) Arthur Miller

C) Eugene O'Neill

D) Samuel Beckett

Answer: B) Arthur Miller

Question: In the novel "Lord of the Flies," who is elected the leader of the boys on the island?

A) Ralph

B) Piggy

C) Jack

D) Simon

Answer: A) Ralph

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

A) The Pequod

B) The Nautilus

C) The Nellie

D) The Hispaniola

Answer: C) The Nellie

Question: Which literary term refers to the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words?

A) Rhyme

B) Alliteration

C) Assonance

D) Onomatopoeia

Answer: B) Alliteration

Question: Who wrote the play "The Glass Menagerie"?

A) Arthur Miller

B) Tennessee Williams

C) Eugene O'Neill

D) Samuel Beckett

Answer: B) Tennessee Williams

Question: What is the title of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's most famous novel?

A) One Hundred Years of Solitude

B) Love in the Time of Cholera

C) Chronicle of a Death Foretold

D) Autumn of the Patriarch

Answer: A) One Hundred Years of Solitude

Question: Who is the author of the poem "Daffodils"?

A) John Keats

B) William Wordsworth

C) Robert Frost

D) Emily Dickinson

Answer: B) William Wordsworth