JAMB UTME - Literature In English - 1980

Question 1 Report

'Comes this season of the cassia flower,
And pent passion peers through the bower,
Comes the season, and all labour is fallen
All earthen pitches as china broken'
The rhyme scheme in this passageb from kalu Uka's 'Earth to Earth' is

alternative rhymes

triplets

couplets Correct answer

free verse

blank verse

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Question 2 Report

'Earth has not anything to show more fair.
Dull would he be of soul who could pass by
A sight so touching in its majesty:
This city now doth, like a garment, wear
The beauty of the morning'.
It is suggested in this lines that

the beauty of the morning gains from the beauty of the city

the beauty of the city gains from the beauty of the morning Correct answer

the beauty of the city and the beauty of the morning are unrelated

the beauty of the same has nothing to do with either the city or the morning

there is no beauty on earth

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Question 3 Report

In zambia shall be free Kaunda describes his father as

erratic

a political agitator

wicked

unlucky

strict. Correct answer

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Question 4 Report

In Gray's 'Elegy' the poor are

abused

accursed

romanticized

praised Correct answer

admonished

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Question 5 Report

The difficulties of his early life taught Kaunda the value of

self interest

economy

changing jobs

self help Correct answer

political protest

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Question 6 Report

Poetry deals with one of the following

emotion only

death only

ideas only

emotion and ideas Correct answer

beauty only

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Question 7 Report

In The World is Too Much With Us', Wordsworth wishes that people could

become pagans

appreciate the beauty of Nature more Correct answer

go to see Proteus and Triton

become part of Nation

give their 'hearts aways

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Question 8 Report

The main purpose of drama is to

tell the story of dead people

teach us how to write

educate us

entertain us

both educate and entertain us. Correct answer

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Question 9 Report

Which of the characters in Abraham's Mine Boy is notorious for playing with a Knife?

xuma

Leah

Ma plank

Dladia Correct answer

Joseph.

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Question 10 Report

'If i could have put u in my heart,
If but i could have wrapped you in myself
How glad i should have been!
And now the chart
Of memory unrolls again to me
The course of our journey here, here where we part....'
An appropriate title for these lines is.....

The end Correct answer

a lover's Hope

Joy's of being in love

The journey of life

Glad lover

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Question 11 Report

The subject matter of 'A Troubadour|Traverse'is

suffering and oppression Correct answer

laughter and happiness

singing and merry making

love for a woman

long journey

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Question 12 Report

One of the themes of macbeth is

how to become a thene

the prophecy of the weird sisters

the fight with the macduff

the defect of evil by good Correct answer

the death of duncan.

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Question 13 Report

Kofi had to live under a master and go to school in keta because

his mothr lived in keta

his father was transfer ti abor

he lost his school fees to gamblers

his father's school was a junior school Correct answer

his father wanted to punish him.

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Question 14 Report

One of the differences between tragedy and comedy is

there is humour in comedy but not in tragedy

there id suffering in tragedy but not in comedy

there is feasting in comedy but not in tragedy

there is a happy ending in comedy but not in tragedy Correct answer

none of the above

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Question 15 Report

'Fast fading violets covered up in leaves
And mid May's eldest child
The coming must-rose full of dewy wine
The murmurous haunt of files on summer eves'.
('Ode to a nightingale')
The poetic beauty of the last line owes to the use of

smile

onomatopeia

metaphor Correct answer

archaism

metonymy

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Question 16 Report

All the images used to describe where the poet always stop in Lenrie Peter's ; The Fence 'are suggestive of the character's

cleverness

versatility

moral weakness

romatic disposition Correct answer

evil nature

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Question 17 Report

In As You Like It, the verse which begins

' Blow blow thou winter wind' is about

a storm in winter

man's ingratitude

Duk Senior cave Correct answer

Le Beau's love for Snowballs

Oriando's love for Rosalind

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Question 18 Report

'We are all diseas'd,
And with our surfeiting, and wanton hours,
Have brought ourselves into a burning fever
And we must bleed for it'.
The images in the passage mostly draw attention to

fun

ill heath

carelessness Correct answer

sacrifice

dicting

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Question 19 Report

Stars hide your fires;
let no light see my black and deep desires
They eye wink at the hand; yet let that be Which the eyes fears, when it is done to see'
In these lines Shakespare uses

hyperbole

metonymy

onomatopoeia

simile

apostophe Correct answer

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Question 20 Report

Eliza is Mine Boy is representative of

European female sophistication

the disaster of an African wishing to be European Correct answer

moral decadence in South African where women smoke

the hardship of a black female teacher

the loneliness of a female teacher in Malay Camp

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Question 21 Report

The doctors looked at chris johannes.
They were both dead. They kept the place up with their bodies so that we could get out!'a mine boy cried and begin to sob (Mine Boy).
The death of Chris and Johannes is symbolic because

it shows how black and white can and ought to make sacrifies for matual benefit Correct answer

it lead to the arrest of the miners by the police

it shows the bad conditions of the mines

it ios the result of panic

it keeps xuma out of trouble.

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Question 22 Report

Which one of the following is true of Lady Macbeth?

She is wicked and hates her husband

She tells lies against Duncan

She does not receive Duncan Warmly

She conspires with those guiding Duncan

She is a loving wife to her husband Correct answer

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Question 23 Report

In 'The Sea Eats Our Land' the word 'sea' symbolizes

flood

ancestor

modernity Correct answer

sacrifise

golden girl

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Question 24 Report

In the novel The Narrow Parth because Kofi's father was a headmaster, kofi

wore shoe to school Correct answer

started school early

went to school when he liked

wasn rude to his teachers

was very popular with the school children

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Question 25 Report

The night has been unruly. Where we lay. Our chimneys were blown down; and as they say lamentings heard i'th'air; strange screams of death And prophesying with accents terrible. Of dire combustion and confessed events. New hatch'd to the woeful time. The obscure bird Clamour'd the livelong night: some say the earth was feverous and did shake. This is the night .

when Banquo was murdered

before macbeth was killed

when the duncan and his men were fighting the enemy

when macbeth went to see the witches

when duncan was murdered. Correct answer

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Question 26 Report

Ananse knew who loved his daughter most through

the quality of gifts they sent to him

the eagerness which each showed to marry her

thier reactions to the news of Anansewa's death Correct answer

the words of thier messengers

the letters the chief wrote to them.

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Question 27 Report

'And 'mid these dancing looks at once and ever it flung up momentarily the sacred river.
Five miles meandering with a mazy motion
Through wood and dale the sacred river ran'.
Line 3 is made memorable by the use of

simile

metaphor

polysyndeton

monosyndeton

alliteration Correct answer

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Question 28 Report

The feeding in the poem 'Nightfall in soweto' is one of

gratitude

love

hate

joy Correct answer

safety

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Question 29 Report

Chaucer presents The Franklin as

a great noble man

a devout christain

an apicurian in taste Correct answer

a jovial character

an ambitious man

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Question 30 Report

Kongi wants to eat the New Yam during the harvest Festival because

he was very hungry after his period of fasting

the Yam won the agriculture contest

it belonged to the Royal House

it symbolized the acqusition of Power Correct answer

he wanted to reconcile with Oba Danlola

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Question 31 Report

Kongi's Harvest

Kongi is a democratic ruler

Kongi is a socialist

Kongi is a dictator Correct answer

Kongi is a respecter of tradition

none of the above

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Question 32 Report

In Procession I-Hanging Day', Soyinka writes about

what he actually witnessed Correct answer

an imaginary event

what he read about in the pspers

what the prison wader told him

what everyone knows.

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Question 33 Report

In 'Ode to a nightingale' Keats celebrates the beauty of

a particular immortal Bird Correct answer

all nightingales

artistic expression

philosophical statement

the nightingale Ruth heard

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Question 34 Report

Orlando addressed the banished duke and his men roughly because

he was hungry

he was greedy

he was afraid

he thought they were wild Correct answer

they refuse to give him food.

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Question 35 Report

'She came in silken Drapes' is about the

virtures of love Correct answer

killing of a coral snake

danger of false love

beautiful butterfly

sleeping leopards.

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Question 36 Report

One of themes of As You Like It Is

life in the forest

wrestling matches

disguise

the meaning of true love Correct answer

banishment.

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Question 37 Report

To be thus is nothing but to be safely thus our fear in Banqo stick deep. soon after these words, macbeth is dramatically 'attended'by

Banqo and his son Correct answer

two murderers

lady Macbeth

lady Macbeth and a servant

Banqo

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Question 38 Report

''When he was turned over, his eyeballs started upward in amazement and horror, his was locked torn wide: his trousers soaked with blood, were torn open, and exposed to the cold, white air of morning the thick hairs of his groin, mattered together, black and rust red, and the wound that seemed to be throbbing still''.

The passage achieve realism through the use of

details Correct answer

simple words

the long sentence

the past tense

punctuation.

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Question 39 Report

The animal which Gerald Durrel found difficult to catch was

the water snake

old plop

alacko Correct answer

geronimo

achilles.

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Question 40 Report

Kongi's harvest is

a political drama Correct answer

social comedy

a play about natural rulers

a historical tragedy

a domestic comedy.

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Question 41 Report

In As You Like It Orland's defeat of charles, the Duke's wrestler made his brother Oliver

decide to reconcile with him

plan to kill him Correct answer

hate him more

ask the servant, Adam to drive him away

give him his deserved inheritance.

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Question 42 Report

'She unpacked the novels she has brought with her, and turned them over. These were the books she had collected over years from the mass that had come her way. She had read each one a dozen times, knowing it by heart, following the familiar tales as a child listens to his mother telling him a well-known fairy tale'.
This character may best be described as a woman

of habit

of poor means

of wide literary interest Correct answer

with poor memory

who loved her mother

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Question 43 Report

When the Franklin declares in the prologue to his tale that he has 'not slept on mount Parnassus' he meant that

his bed has always uncomfortable

he has sleepless nights

he has no literary pretensions Correct answer

he is well-versed in rhetorics

he is a poor sleeper.

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Question 44 Report

Nani's sternness and frequent use of the cane

was responsible for his transfers

exacted obedience from his wife Correct answer

fiiled his children with fear and pain

gave him a very good reputation

made his teacher rebel against him

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Question 45 Report

There is a devil in me that wants things i cannot get' The speaker in the novel Mine boy' is

Lena

Drunk Liz

Malsey

Paddy

Eliza. Correct answer

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Question 46 Report

The dominant images in Kalu Uka's Earth to Earth are those of

love and beauty

youth and joy

death and burial Correct answer

the sweetness of wooling

the richness of a man's memory

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Question 47 Report

'Thou losest labour
As easy mayst thou the interenchant air with kneel sword impress as make me bleed'
Macbeth contempt from Macduff's effort in this battle scene arises from

the quality of his military uniform

the fact that he cannot be hurt by mortals

the fact that the witches has given him charms

the fact that the witches have made him think no mortal can hurt him Correct answer

the fact that he is as light as Air.

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Question 48 Report

'I am become a name;
For always roaming with a hungry heart
Much have i seen and known; cities of men
And manners, climates, council, governments'
These line fairly represent the attitude of Ulysses' life. This attitude may be described as

complaining continually about life

unwillingness to agree and work with others.

ceaseless labour and search for challenges Correct answer

dislike of one's country or home

roaming and idling.

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Question 49 Report

In Mine Boy Peter Abrahams is of the view that apartheid would cease to exist in South Africa if

the blacks forced out the whites