JAMB - Literature In English (1999)

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This question is based on William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.
'I' ll do my best
To woo your lady.'
What is the sincere desire of the person who made the statement above?
Answer
(C)
That she herself becomes the beloved
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This question is based on William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.
The significance of the sub-plot dealing with Feste,
Toby and Maria is the expression of life's
Answer
(A)
fragility
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This question is based on William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.
What would you consider to be the major theme of the play?
Answer
(B)
Unrequited love
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This question is based on Camara Laye's The African Child.

Laye learns early in life that his society respects
Answer
(A)
spirits and ghosts
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This question is based on Camara Laye's The African Child.
The father permits his son to go to Paris because he
Answer
(A)
sees no future in traditional African ways
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This question is based on Camara Laye's The African Child.
The author makes the reader believe his story by using
Answer
(C)
detailed description
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This question is based on Camara Laye's The African Child.
The novel is a mixture of
Answer
(D)
the real and the supermatural
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This question is based on Camara Laye's The African Child.
Which of these features give the novel an African setting ?
Answer
(A)
Marabouts, spirits and family life
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This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's Second Class Citizen.
In Adah's view, the white society in the novel is one in which
Answer
(B)
neighbourliness is lacking
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This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's Second Class Citizen.
To raise the reader's anxiety about the story, the author sometimes
Answer
(C)
puts too many difficulties in Adah's way
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This question is based on Ernest Hermingway's The Old Man and the Sea.
The struggle between the old man and the fish symbolizes
Answer
(C)
man's struggle for survival in a harsh world
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This question is based on Ernest Hermingway's The Old Man and the Sea.
'''I wish the boy was here...'''
The old man's cry demonstrates
Answer
(C)
humiliation
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This question is based on Ernest Hermingway's The Old Man and the Sea.
One of the universal themes of the novel is the
Answer
(B)
relationship between man and nature
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This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker 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.
Okigbo's 'Hurrah for Thunder'is a prophetic poem because it
Answer
(A)
correctly predicts the end of those who abuse power
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This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker 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.
'Red booth, Red pillar-box Red double-tiered Omnibus squelching tar. It was real!....'
These lines from Soyinka's 'Telephone Conversation show that the poet
Answer
(A)
appreciates the environment of his experience
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This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker 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 Rubadiri's 'Stanley Meets Mutesa' the king receives the explorer with
Answer
(A)
suspicion
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This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker 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 most dominant pair of poetic device in Mtshall's 'Nightfall in Soweto'is
Answer
(D)
repetition and personification
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This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker 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.
Osundare's 'They Too are the Earth' can be interpreted as
Answer
(B)
an apology for the affluent
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This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker 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 villains in this poem by Osundara are
Answer
(D)
the people who die in abandon
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This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker 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 recurrent nightmares in Ojaide's 'The Owl Wakes Us' suggest
Answer
(D)
broken promises
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This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker 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 Owl is used by Ojaide in this poem as a
Answer
(B)
symbol
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This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker 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.
Gray's 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' is a
Answer
(C)
reflection on the passing of life
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This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker 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 Duke's precious gift to the Duchess in Browning's 'My Last Duchess 'is
Answer
(D)
the title of a Duchess
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This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker 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 Browning's 'My Last Duchess', the Duke complains that his wife is
Answer
(D)
disrespectful
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This question is based on General Literary Principles
'Nightfall! Nightfall!
You are my mortal enemy'.
The figurative name for the manner in which nightfall is directly addressed as though present in Mtshali's 'Nightfall inSoweto' is
Answer
(C)
apostrophe
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This question is based on General Literary Principles
The line 'under snakeskin shoes and Mercedes tyres' in Osundare's 'They Too are the Earth' is a good example of
Answer
(C)
contrast
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This question is based on General Literary Principles
A denouement in a play
Answer
(C)
resolves conflicts
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This question is based on General Literary Principles
A couplet refers to
Answer
(A)
two successive lines of rhyming verse
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This question is based on General Literary Principles
A foil in drama is also known as
Answer
(D)
antagonist
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This question is based on General Literary Principles
'Whereat: with blade, with bloody blameful blade.
He bravely broached his boiling bloody best'.
The dominant figure of speech in the lines above is
Answer
(B)
alliteration
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This question is based on General Literary Principles
A humorous play based on an unrealistic situation is considered in drama as
Answer
(C)
farce
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This question is based on General Literary Principles.
The device used by writers to give truths by indirection is called
Answer
(A)
irony
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This question is based on General Literary Principles.
The arrangement of incidents in a novel in which one action precipitates another is called
Answer
(B)
chronology
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This question is based on General Literary Principles.
The theme of a literary work is the
Answer
(A)
dominant pre-occupation of the work
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This question is based on General Literary Principles.
A metaphor in which objects, persons and events in a story are equated with meanings that lie outside the narrative itself is
Answer
(C)
allegory
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This question is based on Literary Principles.

The commissioner, who was also the local magistrate, peered at the two men. He did not go near because, fastidiously, he too wished to avoid the odour of travel that clung to them. Except for the alpaca jacket, which he wore in the office, he was a model of starched and expensive neatness from his lean skull to the gleaming toes of his formal shoes.


Alex La Guma, 'Time of the Butcherbird'


From the except above, the writer condemns the Commissioner by employing a

Answer
(B)
contemptuous tone
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This question is based on Literary Principles.
'Standing on the veranda, I see my sons Alioune and Malick arriving in tears. They are in a pitiable state; torn clothes, bodies covered in dust from a fall, knees bleeding beneath the shorts. There is a larg hole in the right sleeve of Malick's sweater; the arm on the same side hangs down limply. One of the boys supporting him explained to me:
'A motorcyclist knocked down Malick and Alioune.
We were playing football'''
Mariama Ba, 'So Long a Letter'
The use of the present tense in the passage
Answer
(A)
makes it dramatic
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This question is based on Literary Principles.
'At the most remote end of the crypt there appeared another less spacious. Its walls had been lined with human remains piled to the vault overhead. In the fashion of the great catacombs of Paris. Three sides of this interior crypt were still ornamented in this manner. From the fourth the bones had been thrown down , and lay promiscuously upon the earth, forming at one point a mound of some size',
E. Pope, 'Cask of Amontillado'
In the passage above, the author evokes the atmosphere of
Answer
(D)
doom
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This question is based on Literary Principles.
'He always thought of the sea as a la mar which is what people call her in Spanish when they love her. Sometimes those who love her say bad things of her but they are always said as though she were a woman'.
Hemingway, 'The Old Man and the Sea'
In the passage above, the sea is
Answer
(B)
personified
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This question is based on Literary Principles.
'Ibadan,
running splash of rust
and gold - flung and scattered
among seven hills like broken
china in the sun.'
J.P Clark, 'Ibadan'
The poem above is memorable for its
Answer
(C)
metaphor
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This question is based on Literary Principles.
'There was another, Sule. He put himself in uniform, made one for his five-year-old son, and marched with the infant from dawn till noon every market day on the main road singing 'Kayiwawa beturi, ''the theme song of his Burmese days.
Kofi Awoonor, '' This Earth, My Brother'
The character in the poem above is obviously a
Answer
(A)
veteran
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This question is based on Literary Principles.
'You amble on
we can no longer
wait for nature's course
we must deliver
you
with
force'
Amelia House, 'Our Sun Rises'
The mood in the lines above is one of
Answer
(D)
indignation
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This question is based on General Literary Principles.

In drama, the term climax is used
Answer
(B)
for the point of highest dramatic tension
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This question is based on William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.

She bore a mind that envy could not but call fair The statement above characterizes.
Answer
(B)
Olivia
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This question is based on William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.

According to the play, the Duke of lllyria is fascinated by
Answer
(A)
the idea of love