1995 - JAMB Literature Past Questions and Answers - page 2

This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer.

The play is concerned principally with

This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer.

X: I am told he's a man of an excellent understanding

Y: Is he?

X: Very generous.

Y: I believe I shall like him.

X: Young and brave.

Y: I'm sure I shall like him.

X: And very handsome.

Y:....,I'll have him.

Who are the speakers X and Y and about whom are they speaking ?

This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa, Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa, K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.

In 'Hurrah for Thunder', Christopher Okigbo celebrates

This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa, Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa, K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.

'The eye that looks down will surely see the nose

The finger that fits should be used to pick the nose

The lines above from 'Hurrah for Thunder' bear two major connotations.

These are

This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa, Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa, K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.

The repetition of the line 'They Too Are Earth' has the effect of

This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa, Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa, K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.

Oswald Mtshali's 'They Washerwoman's Prayer' is

This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa, Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa, K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.

The phrase 'location indifferent' in 'Telephone Conversation' conveys Wole Soyinka's

This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa, Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa, K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.

'Returning is not possible

And going forward is a great difficulty'

Sorrow' depict

This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa, Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa, K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.

'The is my son, mine own Telemachus To whom I leave the scepter and the isle.'

In the lines above from Tennyson's Ulysses', scepter' and 'isle' are a poetic device called

This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa, Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa, K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.

The persona in 'My Last Duchess' regards the painting as