2005 - JAMB Literature Past Questions and Answers - page 1

This question is based on Ahmed Yerima's Attahiru.

To justify the deposition of the Emirs of Bida and Kontagora, the British authorities accuse them of

This question is based on Ahmed Yerima's Attahiru.
'I wish him luck with his infidel friends But he must remember that there is only one moon at a time, one sun at a time'

The speaker in the passage above is referring to a

This question is based on Ahmed Yerima's Attahiru.

Lord Lugard and the British military find it easy to penetrate the Sokoto Caliphate because the

This question is based on Ahmed Yerima's Attahiru.

Caliph Attahiru's dream about heavy smoke on the battlefield and the ancestors passing the flag of Islam from one head to another serves as

This question is based on Ahmed Yerima's Attahiru.
Madawaki: The whiteman is an uninvited guest to our land, he must observe, not dictate

The statement above is prompted by the

This question is based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet.

Claudius, though a murderer, is presented as a character

This question is based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet.

The call made on Hamlet to avenge his father's death makes him

This question is based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet.

Hamlet: Suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature.

Here, Hamlet is urging the players to

This question is based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet.

The principal function of the play-within-the-play in Hamlet is to

This question is based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet.
In The Mouse-trap, the murderer is