JAMB UTME - Literature In English - 1980

Tambaya 1 Rahoto

'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 Amsar da ta dace

sacrifice

dicting

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Tambaya 2 Rahoto

'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 Amsar da ta dace

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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Duba Amsa

Tambaya 3 Rahoto

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 Amsar da ta dace

the death of duncan.

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Duba Amsa

Tambaya 4 Rahoto

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 Amsar da ta dace

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

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Duba Amsa

Tambaya 5 Rahoto

Kongi's Harvest

Kongi is a democratic ruler

Kongi is a socialist

Kongi is a dictator Amsar da ta dace

Kongi is a respecter of tradition

none of the above

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Duba Amsa

Tambaya 6 Rahoto

'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 Amsar da ta dace

free verse

blank verse

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Duba Amsa

Tambaya 7 Rahoto

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

become pagans

appreciate the beauty of Nature more Amsar da ta dace

go to see Proteus and Triton

become part of Nation

give their 'hearts aways

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Duba Amsa

Tambaya 8 Rahoto

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. Amsar da ta dace

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Duba Amsa

Tambaya 9 Rahoto

Eliza is Mine Boy is representative of

European female sophistication

the disaster of an African wishing to be European Amsar da ta dace

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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Duba Amsa

Tambaya 10 Rahoto

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. Amsar da ta dace

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Duba Amsa

Tambaya 11 Rahoto

The animal which Gerald Durrel found difficult to catch was

the water snake

old plop

alacko Amsar da ta dace

geronimo

achilles.

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Duba Amsa

Tambaya 12 Rahoto

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

analogies Amsar da ta dace

rhetorical questions

apostrophes

exaggerations

similes.

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Duba Amsa

Tambaya 13 Rahoto

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

wore shoe to school Amsar da ta dace

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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Duba Amsa

Tambaya 14 Rahoto

'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 Amsar da ta dace

a lover's Hope

Joy's of being in love

The journey of life

Glad lover

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Duba Amsa

Tambaya 15 Rahoto

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

gratitude

love

hate

joy Amsar da ta dace

safety

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Duba Amsa

Tambaya 16 Rahoto

Poetry deals with one of the following

emotion only

death only

ideas only

emotion and ideas Amsar da ta dace

beauty only

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Duba Amsa

Tambaya 17 Rahoto

Kongi's harvest is

a political drama Amsar da ta dace

social comedy

a play about natural rulers

a historical tragedy

a domestic comedy.

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Tambaya 18 Rahoto

In zambia shall be free Kaunda describes his father as

erratic

a political agitator

wicked

unlucky

strict. Amsar da ta dace

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Duba Amsa

Tambaya 19 Rahoto

'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 Amsar da ta dace

the fact that he is as light as Air.

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Tambaya 20 Rahoto

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 Amsar da ta dace

he wanted to reconcile with Oba Danlola

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Duba Amsa

Tambaya 21 Rahoto

The difficulties of his early life taught Kaunda the value of

self interest

economy

changing jobs

self help Amsar da ta dace

political protest

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Tambaya 22 Rahoto

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 Amsar da ta dace

hate him more

ask the servant, Adam to drive him away

give him his deserved inheritance.

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Duba Amsa

Tambaya 23 Rahoto

'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 Amsar da ta dace

with poor memory

who loved her mother

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Duba Amsa

Tambaya 24 Rahoto

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 Amsar da ta dace

the words of thier messengers

the letters the chief wrote to them.

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Duba Amsa

Tambaya 25 Rahoto

In Gray's 'Elegy' the poor are

abused

accursed

romanticized

praised Amsar da ta dace

admonished

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Duba Amsa

Tambaya 26 Rahoto

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

love and beauty

youth and joy

death and burial Amsar da ta dace

the sweetness of wooling

the richness of a man's memory

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Duba Amsa

Tambaya 27 Rahoto

'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 Amsar da ta dace

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Duba Amsa

Tambaya 28 Rahoto

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

xuma

Leah

Ma plank

Dladia Amsar da ta dace

Joseph.

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Duba Amsa

Tambaya 29 Rahoto

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 Amsar da ta dace

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Duba Amsa

Tambaya 30 Rahoto

'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 Amsar da ta dace

archaism

metonymy

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Duba Amsa

Tambaya 31 Rahoto

One of themes of As You Like It Is

life in the forest

wrestling matches

disguise

the meaning of true love Amsar da ta dace

banishment.

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Duba Amsa

Tambaya 32 Rahoto

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. Amsar da ta dace

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Duba Amsa

Tambaya 33 Rahoto

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 Amsar da ta dace

his father wanted to punish him.

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Duba Amsa

Tambaya 34 Rahoto

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

a particular immortal Bird Amsar da ta dace

all nightingales

artistic expression

philosophical statement

the nightingale Ruth heard

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Duba Amsa

Tambaya 35 Rahoto

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 Amsar da ta dace

none of the above

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Duba Amsa

Tambaya 36 Rahoto

'She came in silken Drapes' is about the

virtures of love Amsar da ta dace

killing of a coral snake

danger of false love

beautiful butterfly

sleeping leopards.

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Duba Amsa

Tambaya 37 Rahoto

Chaucer presents The Franklin as

a great noble man

a devout christain

an apicurian in taste Amsar da ta dace

a jovial character

an ambitious man

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Duba Amsa

Tambaya 38 Rahoto

''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 Amsar da ta dace

simple words

the long sentence

the past tense

punctuation.

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Duba Amsa

Tambaya 39 Rahoto

In Procession I-Hanging Day', Soyinka writes about

what he actually witnessed Amsar da ta dace

an imaginary event

what he read about in the pspers

what the prison wader told him

what everyone knows.

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Duba Amsa

Tambaya 40 Rahoto

Nani's sternness and frequent use of the cane

was responsible for his transfers

exacted obedience from his wife Amsar da ta dace

fiiled his children with fear and pain

gave him a very good reputation

made his teacher rebel against him

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Duba Amsa

Tambaya 41 Rahoto

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 Amsar da ta dace

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Tambaya 42 Rahoto

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

flood

ancestor

modernity Amsar da ta dace

sacrifise

golden girl

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Duba Amsa

Tambaya 43 Rahoto

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 Amsar da ta dace

he is well-versed in rhetorics

he is a poor sleeper.

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Duba Amsa

Tambaya 44 Rahoto

'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 Amsar da ta dace

dislike of one's country or home

roaming and idling.

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Duba Amsa

Tambaya 45 Rahoto

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 Amsar da ta dace

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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Duba Amsa

Tambaya 46 Rahoto

The subject matter of 'A Troubadour|Traverse'is

suffering and oppression Amsar da ta dace