SS2 first term literature in english past questions and answers

SS2 first term literature in english past questions and answers

Here are 20 literature in English questions for SS2 (Senior Secondary 2) with options and answers:

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

A) Chinua Achebe

B) Wole Soyinka

C) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

D) Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Answer: A) Chinua Achebe

Question: In Shakespeare's play "Macbeth," what is Macbeth's tragic flaw?

A) Ambition

B) Jealousy

C) Pride

D) Greed

Answer: A) Ambition

Question: Which literary device is used when contradictory terms are combined, like "jumbo shrimp"?

A) Irony

B) Oxymoron

C) Simile

D) Hyperbole

Answer: B) Oxymoron

Question: In "To Kill a Mockingbird," who is the lawyer defending Tom Robinson?

A) Atticus Finch

B) Bob Ewell

C) Jem Finch

D) Boo Radley

Answer: A) Atticus Finch

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

A) Corruption of Power

B) Love and Friendship

C) Exploration of Space

D) Nature's Beauty

Answer: A) Corruption of Power

Question: Who wrote the play "Death of a Salesman"?

A) Arthur Miller

B) Tennessee Williams

C) Eugene O'Neill

D) August Wilson

Answer: A) Arthur Miller

Question: What is the main setting of Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice"?

A) London

B) Paris

C) Hertfordshire

D) Bath

Answer: C) Hertfordshire

Question: In the poem "The Road Not Taken," the poet must make a choice between two:

A) Mountains

B) Rivers

C) Roads

D) Forests

Answer: C) Roads

Question: Who is the protagonist in the novel "1984" by George Orwell?

A) Winston Smith

B) Julia

C) O'Brien

D) Big Brother

Answer: A) Winston Smith

Question: What literary period is known for its focus on individualism and emotion, with poets like William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge?

A) Romanticism

B) Renaissance

C) Victorian

D) Modernism

Answer: A) Romanticism

Question: Which character is known for his famous soliloquy that begins with "To be, or not to be"?

A) Macbeth

B) Hamlet

C) Othello

D) King Lear

Answer: B) Hamlet

Question: What is the title of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's famous novel about the Buendía family in the town of Macondo?

A) One Hundred Years of Solitude

B) Love in the Time of Cholera

C) Chronicle of a Death Foretold

D) The Autumn of the Patriarch

Answer: A) One Hundred Years of Solitude

Question: In "The Great Gatsby," who is the narrator of the story?

A) Jay Gatsby

B) Nick Carraway

C) Daisy Buchanan

D) Tom Buchanan

Answer: B) Nick Carraway

Question: What is the central theme of Chinua Achebe's "Arrow of God"?

A) Colonialism

B) Tradition and Change

C) Family Dynamics

D) Love and Betrayal

Answer: B) Tradition and Change

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

A) Oscar Wilde

B) George Bernard Shaw

C) Samuel Beckett

D) Harold Pinter

Answer: A) Oscar Wilde

Question: What is the primary setting of Ernest Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea"?

A) Paris

B) New York

C) Havana

D) Madrid

Answer: C) Havana

Question: In Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein," who is Victor Frankenstein's creation?

A) The Monster

B) Igor

C) Dracula

D) The Mummy

Answer: A) The Monster

Question: What is the genre of J.K. Rowling's "Harry Potter" series?

A) Mystery

B) Fantasy

C) Historical Fiction

D) Science Fiction

Answer: B) Fantasy

Question: Who wrote the novel "Things Fall Apart"?

A) Wole Soyinka

B) Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

C) Chinua Achebe

D) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Answer: C) Chinua Achebe

Question: In F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby," what is Jay Gatsby's real name?

A) James Gatz

B) John Green

C) Jay Garrett

D) Jake Gibson

Answer: A) James Gatz