PUTME Literature in English past questions.

957 real Post-UTME Screening questions from 2006 to 2025, every one with a worked solution. Practise them timed, on the web, on Android, or offline on desktop.

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Questions held
957
Years covered
20
Questions per paper
40
Time allowed
40 min
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Sample Literature in English questions, answered.

Taken straight from the papers below — one from each of the most recent years, with the answer marked and the reasoning written out.

PUTME Literature in English 2025 · Question 1
Which play demonstrates the trickster archetype?
  1. The Marriage of Anansewa — correct answer
  2. Antony and Cleopatra
  3. Once Upon an Elephant
  4. A Man for All Seasons
Worked solution
Efua Sutherland's The Marriage of Anansewa centres on Ananse, the cunning spider-trickster of Akan folklore, who promises his daughter to four chiefs to collect their gifts and then schemes his way out of the dilemma.
PUTME Literature in English 2024 · Question 1
"The lawyer addressed the bench" illustrates
  1. metonymy — correct answer
  2. alliteration
  3. simile
  4. oxymoron
Worked solution
"The bench" stands for the judge or court with which it is closely associated, which is metonymy.
PUTME Literature in English 2023 · Question 1
The play Let Me Die Alone is set in
  1. Liberia
  2. Sierra Leone — correct answer
  3. Ghana
  4. Nigeria
Worked solution
John Kargbo's play is about Madam Yoko of the Mende in colonial Sierra Leone.
PUTME Literature in English 2022 · Question 1
Sonnet originated from _______
  1. England
  2. Italy — correct answer
  3. France
  4. Germany
Worked solution
The sonnet began in Italy and was made popular by Petrarch in the 14th century. Wyatt and Surrey later brought it to England.
PUTME Literature in English 2021 · Question 1
Which of the following is a historical play?
  1. The Lion and the Jewel
  2. Ovonramwen Nogbaisi — correct answer
  3. The Gods Are Not To Blame
  4. Our Husband Has Gone Mad Again
Worked solution
Ola Rotimi's Ovonramwen Nogbaisi dramatises the British invasion of Benin in 1897 and the exile of Oba Ovonramwen.
Every paper we hold

PUTME Literature in English, year by year.

2025
72 questions
2024
143 questions
2023
63 questions
2022
67 questions
2021
48 questions
2020
33 questions
2019
64 questions
2018
36 questions
2017
19 questions
2016
19 questions
2015
44 questions
2014
125 questions
2013
25 questions
2012
25 questions
2011
25 questions
2010
25 questions
2009
25 questions
2008
27 questions
2007
24 questions
2006
23 questions
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How PUTME Literature in English is set.

Post-UTME Screening sets 40 questions in Literature in English, answered in 40 minutes — about 60 seconds a question. Practising against that clock is the part most candidates skip, and it is the part that costs marks.

We hold 957 published Literature in English questions spanning 2006 to 2025. You can practise any single year’s paper, or sit a full timed mock that mirrors the real interface — the navigator, the flags and the auto-submit included.

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