2016
JAMB Literature Past Questions & Answers - page 1

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' Chief, the buys are getting more expensive to handle. They continue to demand for increased pay and you know what you give for expenses. Please try and look into a possible increases in the overhead allocation.
This smuggling racket is becoming too hot to handle you know, the risk involved'.


The scene of the conversation in the excerpt above is
A
a street
B
Chief's office
C
a hotel
D
the Police Station
CORRECT OPTION: c
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''Chief, the boys are getting more expensive to handle. They continue to demand for increased pay and you know what you give for expenses. Please try and look into a possible increase in the overhead allocation.
This smuggling racket is becoming too hot to handle you know, the risk involved'.

The setting of the play is
A
Gbossa
B
Benue
C
Nassarawa
D
Jabu
CORRECT OPTION: d
3
This question is based on Frank Ogodo Ogbeche's Harvest of Corruption.

From its resolution of conflicts. the play can be described as being
A
obscene
B
farcical
C
comic
D
didactic
CORRECT OPTION: d
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This question is based on Frank Ogodo Ogbeche's Harvest of Corruption.

Aloho is employed as Chief's
A
Personal Assistant
B
Protocol Officer
C
Legal Adviser
D
Secretary
CORRECT OPTION: b
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This question is based on Frank Ogodo Ogbeche's Harvest of Corruption.
'I thought as much. I know what all these hide-and-seek games that have been going on will one day come to light'.
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The speaker of the excerpt above is
A
Ogeyi
B
Alice
C
Ayo
D
Mrs Obi
CORRECT OPTION: d
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This question is based on William Shakespeare's Othello.
The handkerchief that Othello inherits from his mother is made by
A
a famale prophet
B
Desdemona's maid
C
Othello's mother
D
Othello's lover.
CORRECT OPTION: c
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This question is based on William Shakespeare's Othello.
The first character in the play to refers to Othello by name is
A
Brabantio
B
Desdemona
C
the Duke
D
lago
CORRECT OPTION: c
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This question is based on William Shakespeare's Othello.
The hypocritical character in the play is
A
Montano
B
lago
C
Cassio
D
Roderigo
CORRECT OPTION: b
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This question is based on William Shakespeare's Othello.
Othello kills himself with a
A
bottle
B
sword
C
gun
D
knife
CORRECT OPTION: b
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This question is based on William Shakespeare's Othello.

'No faith; she let it drop by negligence. And, to the advantage, I, being here, took up look, here it is.'

This speaker of the lines above is
A
lago
B
Cassio
C
Desdemona
D
Emilia
CORRECT OPTION: b
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