JAMB UTME - Literature In English - 1980

Question 1 Rapport

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 Bonne réponse

he wanted to reconcile with Oba Danlola

Détails de la réponse

Voir la réponse

Question 2 Rapport

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 Bonne réponse

Détails de la réponse

Lisez la note de cours sur Poetry (JAMB)

Poetry

Voir la réponse

Question 3 Rapport

The difficulties of his early life taught Kaunda the value of

self interest

economy

changing jobs

self help Bonne réponse

political protest

Détails de la réponse

Lisez la note de cours sur Prose (JAMB)

Prose

Voir la réponse

Question 4 Rapport

In zambia shall be free Kaunda describes his father as

erratic

a political agitator

wicked

unlucky

strict. Bonne réponse

Détails de la réponse

Lisez la note de cours sur Prose (JAMB)

Prose

Voir la réponse

Question 5 Rapport

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

love and beauty

youth and joy

death and burial Bonne réponse

the sweetness of wooling

the richness of a man's memory

Détails de la réponse

Lisez la note de cours sur Poetry (JAMB)

Poetry

Voir la réponse

Question 6 Rapport

Eliza is Mine Boy is representative of

European female sophistication

the disaster of an African wishing to be European Bonne réponse

moral decadence in South African where women smoke

the hardship of a black female teacher

the loneliness of a female teacher in Malay Camp

Détails de la réponse

Lisez la note de cours sur Second Class Citizen By Buchi Emecheta (WAEC)

Lisez la note de cours sur Let Me Die Alone By John K. Kargbo (WAEC)

Lisez la note de cours sur Prose (JAMB)

Second Class Citizen By Buchi Emecheta

Let Me Die Alone By John K. Kargbo

Prose

Voir la réponse

Question 7 Rapport

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 Bonne réponse

Le Beau's love for Snowballs

Oriando's love for Rosalind

Détails de la réponse

Lisez la note de cours sur A Midsummer Night’s Dream (WAEC)

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Voir la réponse

Question 8 Rapport

The animal which Gerald Durrel found difficult to catch was

the water snake

old plop

alacko Bonne réponse

geronimo

achilles.

Détails de la réponse

Lisez la note de cours sur “Bat” By David H. Lawrence (WAEC)

“Bat” By David H. Lawrence

Voir la réponse

Question 9 Rapport

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 Bonne réponse

Détails de la réponse

Lisez la note de cours sur Drama (JAMB)

Drama

Voir la réponse

Question 10 Rapport

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 Bonne réponse

none of the above

Détails de la réponse

Voir la réponse

Question 11 Rapport

Chaucer presents The Franklin as

a great noble man

a devout christain

an apicurian in taste Bonne réponse

a jovial character

an ambitious man

Détails de la réponse

Lisez la note de cours sur Literary Appreciation (JAMB)

Lisez la note de cours sur General Literary Principles (JAMB)

Lisez la note de cours sur Prose (JAMB)

Literary Appreciation

General Literary Principles

Prose

Voir la réponse

Question 12 Rapport

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. Bonne réponse

Détails de la réponse

Lisez la note de cours sur Prose (JAMB)

Prose

Voir la réponse

Question 13 Rapport

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. Bonne réponse

Détails de la réponse

Lisez la note de cours sur Poetry (JAMB)

Poetry

Voir la réponse

Question 14 Rapport

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

a particular immortal Bird Bonne réponse

all nightingales

artistic expression

philosophical statement

the nightingale Ruth heard

Détails de la réponse

Lisez la note de cours sur Poetry (JAMB)

Poetry

Voir la réponse

Question 15 Rapport

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 Bonne réponse

evil nature

Détails de la réponse

Lisez la note de cours sur Poetry (JAMB)

Lisez la note de cours sur Literary Appreciation (JAMB)

Poetry

Literary Appreciation

Voir la réponse

Question 16 Rapport

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 Bonne réponse

his father wanted to punish him.

Détails de la réponse

Voir la réponse

Question 17 Rapport

Orlando addressed the banished duke and his men roughly because

he was hungry

he was greedy

he was afraid

he thought they were wild Bonne réponse

they refuse to give him food.

Détails de la réponse

Lisez la note de cours sur “Raider Of The Treasure Trove” By Lade Wosornu (WAEC)

Lisez la note de cours sur Prose (JAMB)

“Raider Of The Treasure Trove” By Lade Wosornu

Prose

Voir la réponse

Question 18 Rapport

In Gray's 'Elegy' the poor are

abused

accursed

romanticized

praised Bonne réponse

admonished

Détails de la réponse

Lisez la note de cours sur Poetry (JAMB)

Poetry

Voir la réponse

Question 19 Rapport

'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 Bonne réponse

Détails de la réponse

Lisez la note de cours sur Poetry (JAMB)

Poetry

Voir la réponse

Question 20 Rapport

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

the whites packed their bags and went away peacefully

the whites became more generous and gentle to the blacks

black and whites stopped regarding people primarily by the colour of the skin Bonne réponse

unequal treatment of the black and white at the mines was discontinued.

Détails de la réponse

Lisez la note de cours sur Literary Appreciation (JAMB)

Lisez la note de cours sur Prose (JAMB)

Literary Appreciation

Prose

Voir la réponse

Question 21 Rapport

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

xuma

Leah

Ma plank

Dladia Bonne réponse

Joseph.

Détails de la réponse

Lisez la note de cours sur Prose (JAMB)

Prose

Voir la réponse

Question 22 Rapport

'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 Bonne réponse

archaism

metonymy

Détails de la réponse

Lisez la note de cours sur Poetry (JAMB)

Poetry

Voir la réponse

Question 23 Rapport

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 Bonne réponse

two murderers

lady Macbeth

lady Macbeth and a servant

Banqo

Détails de la réponse

Lisez la note de cours sur Drama (JAMB)

Lisez la note de cours sur Prose (JAMB)

Drama

Prose

Voir la réponse

Question 24 Rapport

'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 Bonne réponse

sacrifice

dicting

Détails de la réponse

Lisez la note de cours sur Poetry (JAMB)

Lisez la note de cours sur General Literary Principles (JAMB)

Poetry

General Literary Principles

Voir la réponse

Question 25 Rapport

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

flood

ancestor

modernity Bonne réponse

sacrifise

golden girl

Détails de la réponse

Lisez la note de cours sur Poetry (JAMB)

Poetry

Voir la réponse

Question 26 Rapport

One of themes of As You Like It Is

life in the forest

wrestling matches

disguise

the meaning of true love Bonne réponse

banishment.

Détails de la réponse

Lisez la note de cours sur A Midsummer Night’s Dream (WAEC)

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Voir la réponse

Question 27 Rapport

'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 Bonne réponse

dislike of one's country or home

roaming and idling.

Détails de la réponse

Lisez la note de cours sur Poetry (JAMB)

Poetry

Voir la réponse

Question 28 Rapport

'She came in silken Drapes' is about the

virtures of love Bonne réponse

killing of a coral snake

danger of false love

beautiful butterfly

sleeping leopards.

Détails de la réponse

Lisez la note de cours sur Poetry (JAMB)

Poetry

Voir la réponse

Question 29 Rapport

Nani's sternness and frequent use of the cane

was responsible for his transfers

exacted obedience from his wife Bonne réponse

fiiled his children with fear and pain

gave him a very good reputation

made his teacher rebel against him

Détails de la réponse

Lisez la note de cours sur Second Class Citizen By Buchi Emecheta (WAEC)

Lisez la note de cours sur Prose (JAMB)

Second Class Citizen By Buchi Emecheta

Prose

Voir la réponse

Question 30 Rapport

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

become pagans

appreciate the beauty of Nature more Bonne réponse

go to see Proteus and Triton

become part of Nation

give their 'hearts aways

Détails de la réponse

Lisez la note de cours sur Poetry (JAMB)

Poetry

Voir la réponse

Question 31 Rapport

'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 Bonne réponse

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

Détails de la réponse

Lisez la note de cours sur Poetry (JAMB)

Poetry

Voir la réponse

Question 32 Rapport

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 Bonne réponse

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.

Détails de la réponse

Lisez la note de cours sur Prose (JAMB)

Prose

Voir la réponse

Question 33 Rapport

'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 Bonne réponse

the fact that he is as light as Air.

Détails de la réponse

Lisez la note de cours sur Drama (JAMB)

Drama

Voir la réponse

Question 34 Rapport

In Procession I-Hanging Day', Soyinka writes about

what he actually witnessed Bonne réponse

an imaginary event

what he read about in the pspers

what the prison wader told him

what everyone knows.

Détails de la réponse

Lisez la note de cours sur The Lion And The Jewel By Wole Soyinka (WAEC)

The Lion And The Jewel By Wole Soyinka

Voir la réponse

Question 35 Rapport

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 Bonne réponse

the words of thier messengers

the letters the chief wrote to them.

Détails de la réponse

Lisez la note de cours sur Drama (JAMB)

Lisez la note de cours sur Prose (JAMB)

Drama

Prose

Voir la réponse

Question 36 Rapport

The subject matter of 'A Troubadour|Traverse'is

suffering and oppression Bonne réponse

laughter and happiness

singing and merry making

love for a woman

long journey

Détails de la réponse

Lisez la note de cours sur Poetry (JAMB)

Poetry

Voir la réponse

Question 37 Rapport

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. Bonne réponse

Détails de la réponse

Lisez la note de cours sur Drama (JAMB)

Drama

Voir la réponse

Question 38 Rapport

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 Bonne réponse

he is well-versed in rhetorics

he is a poor sleeper.

Détails de la réponse

Lisez la note de cours sur General Literary Principles (JAMB)

General Literary Principles

Voir la réponse

Question 39 Rapport

Kongi's harvest is

a political drama Bonne réponse

social comedy

a play about natural rulers

a historical tragedy

a domestic comedy.

Détails de la réponse

Lisez la note de cours sur Drama (JAMB)

Drama

Voir la réponse

Question 40 Rapport

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 Bonne réponse

hate him more

ask the servant, Adam to drive him away

give him his deserved inheritance.

Détails de la réponse

Lisez la note de cours sur A Midsummer Night’s Dream (WAEC)

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Voir la réponse

Question 41 Rapport

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

wore shoe to school Bonne réponse

started school early

went to school when he liked

wasn rude to his teachers

was very popular with the school children

Détails de la réponse

Lisez la note de cours sur Prose (JAMB)

Prose

Voir la réponse

Question 42 Rapport

''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 Bonne réponse

simple words

the long sentence

the past tense

punctuation.

Détails de la réponse

Lisez la note de cours sur Prose (JAMB)

Prose

Voir la réponse

Question 43 Rapport

Poetry deals with one of the following

emotion only

death only

ideas only

emotion and ideas Bonne réponse

beauty only

Détails de la réponse

Lisez la note de cours sur Poetry (JAMB)

Poetry

Voir la réponse

Question 44 Rapport

'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 Bonne réponse

a lover's Hope

Joy's of being in love

The journey of life

Glad lover

Détails de la réponse

Lisez la note de cours sur Poetry (JAMB)

Poetry

Voir la réponse

Question 45 Rapport

Kongi's Harvest

Kongi is a democratic ruler

Kongi is a socialist

Kongi is a dictator Bonne réponse

Kongi is a respecter of tradition

none of the above

Détails de la réponse

Lisez la note de cours sur The Lion And The Jewel By Wole Soyinka (WAEC)

The Lion And The Jewel By Wole Soyinka

Voir la réponse

Question 46 Rapport

'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 Bonne réponse

free verse

blank verse

Détails de la réponse

Lisez la note de cours sur Poetry (JAMB)

Poetry

Voir la réponse

Question 47 Rapport

'The Tiger of William Blake is made up of a series of

analogies Bonne réponse

rhetorical questions

apostrophes

exaggerations

similes.

Détails de la réponse

Lisez la note de cours sur Poetry (JAMB)

Poetry

Voir la réponse

Question 48 Rapport

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

gratitude

love

hate

joy Bonne réponse

safety

Détails de la réponse

Lisez la note de cours sur Poetry (JAMB)

Poetry

Voir la réponse

Question 49 Rapport

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 Bonne réponse

the death of duncan.

Détails de la réponse

Lisez la note de cours sur Drama (JAMB)

Lisez la note de cours sur Poetry (JAMB)

Drama

Poetry

Voir la réponse

Question 50 Rapport

'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 Bonne réponse

with poor memory

who loved her mother

Détails de la réponse

Lisez la note de cours sur Prose (JAMB)

Prose

Voir la réponse






Appuyez et maintenez pour déplacer
Cliquez ici pour fermer