1998 - JAMB Literature Past Questions and Answers - page 2
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This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Trials of Brother Jero.
In the play, Soyinka's sympathies lie with the
A
exploited
B
rich
C
imprisoned
D
accused
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This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops To Conquer.
Mrs. Hardcastle's complaint in the play that she misses 'a month's polishing' refers to her
A
rusting away in the countryside
B
need to get the latest fashions in London
C
need to buy the best polish in London
D
boring life in the countryside
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This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops To Conquer.
The play is built on
A
mistaken identities
B
sentiments and realities
C
comedy of errors
D
conttrasts of characters and ideas
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This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops To Conquer.
The epilogue of the play deals with the
A
impermanence of nature
B
impermanence of love
C
impermanence of nature and womanhood
D
shortness of love and life
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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'', the poet uses the image of the jungle to comment on his country''s lack of
A
civilization
B
cleanliness
C
order
D
leadership
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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.
Who are they that 'live that the earth may die'in Nyi Osundare's ''They Too Are The Earth''?
A
the beggars sprawled in gutters
B
The millions who hew wood
C
People who fritter the forest and harry the hills
D
Those who hurl water
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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.
''They too are the earth
Under snakeskin shoes and Mercedez tyres'.
Niyi Osundare uses the lines above to describe the
A
material for the shoes of the poor
B
repulsive snakeskin-like bodies of the poor
C
hope of the oppressed for a better life
D
oppression of the dispossessed
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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.
Kofi Awoonor's 'Songs of Sorrow' is concerned with devastation because
A
the poet had fought in many wars
B
of the destruction of part of Africa by the weather
C
of the impact of white domination on parts of Africa
D
of the destruction of the shrines of the ancestors
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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.
Dzogbesa Lisa in Kofi Awoonor's 'Songs of Sorrow' can be equated to
A
salvation
B
despondence
C
poverty
D
fate
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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.
''O incomprehensible God!
Shall my pilot be''
These lines in Okara''s ''The Call of the River Nun'' reveal a religious undertone which also expresses the
A
mystery of existence
B
omnipotence of God
C
duality of life
D
inevitability of death
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