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JAMB Literature 2010

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1.
Paper Type: A
 
Which literature in English Question Paper Type is given to you? 
A.
Type A
B.
Type B
C.
Type C
D.
Type D
Reveal Answer
Type A
2.
Questions 2 to 5 are based on J.C. De Graft's Sons and  Daughters

‘I simply don't understand what's the matter with everybody today. Everybody let me down, and the speaker above is referring
to _______.
A.
Fosuwa and Maidservant
B.
Hannah and George
C.
Aaron and Maanan
D.
Lawyer B and Mrs. B
Reveal Answer
Fosuwa and Maidservant
3.
Maanan expresses dislike for Lawyer B because of _______.
A.
his condemnation of her choice of career
B.
his recent advances towards her
C.
the betrayal of her father\'s trust
D.
the betrayal of his wife\'s trust.
Reveal Answer
his recent advances towards her
4.
The traditional order in the play is represented by _________.
A.
Mrs. B
B.
Hannah
C.
Maanan
D.
Aunt
Reveal Answer
Aunt
5.
Where does the play take place?
A.
On the street
B.
In George\'s place
C.
In Aunt\'s house
D.
In Ofosu\'s place.
Reveal Answer
In Ofosu's place.
6.
Questions 6 to 10 based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

'0' deadly sin! O rude unthankfulness!
Thy fault our law calls death, but the kind Prince, Taking thy part, hath rushed aside the law And turned that black word...' Deadly sin refers to the______.
A.
suicide of Juliet
B.
suicide of Romeo
C.
murder of Paris
D.
murder of TybaIt
Reveal Answer
murder of TybaIt
7.
The play is mostly written in _____.
A.
blank verse
B.
free verse
C.
metres
D.
foot.
Reveal Answer
free verse
8.
'0' serpent heart, hid with a flowering face!' The statement above refers to
A.
Juliet
B.
Romeo
C.
Tybalt
D.
Benvolio.
Reveal Answer
Romeo
9.
The spatial setting of the play is ________.
A.
Athens
B.
Verona
C.
Padua
D.
Venice
Reveal Answer
Verona
10.
Romeo is banished to Mantua because he _______ .
A.
kills Tybalt in a street duel
B.
marries Juliet without parental consent
C.
attends Capulet\'s party uninvited
D.
attempts to kill Paris his rival.
Reveal Answer
kills Tybalt in a street duel
11.
Questions 11 to 13 are based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood.

In the novel, the society puts high value on _________.
A.
egalitarianism
B.
male ascendancy
C.
procreation
D.
gender equity
Reveal Answer
procreation
12.
The medicine man links the lump discovered on the head of Nnu Ego at birth, to the ________.
A.
possession of physical admirable qualities that makes her an epitome of perfection.
B.
wound inflicted on the slave woman buried with Agbadi\'s wife
C.
coming back of the Agunwa to the society to live again
D.
ill-luck and tragic events attributed to a predestined fate
Reveal Answer
ill-luck and tragic events attributed to a predestined fate
13.
The constant companions of Nnaife's family are ______.
A.
togetherness and happiness
B.
poverty and hunger
C.
sickness and joblessness
D.
disagreement and humiliation
Reveal Answer
poverty and hunger
14.
Questions 14 to 16 are based on Ferdinand Oyano's The Old Man and the Medal.

The disagreement between Mvondo and Nti centres on the latter’s claim to have __________.
A.
assisted Meka in getting the medal
B.
eaten the entire entrails of a sheep
C.
eaten more than his share of the food
D.
been in a white man’s office
Reveal Answer
eaten more than his share of the food
15.
Meka can be best be described as ____________.
A.
an egocentric old man
B.
a simple-hearted old man
C.
an impulsive old man
D.
an old religious bigot
Reveal Answer
an old religious bigot
16.
In the novel, the colonialists treat the Africans with _____________.
A.
Kids\' gloves
B.
disdain
C.
indifference
D.
honour
Reveal Answer
disdain
17.
Questions 17 to 20 are based on George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-four

The Ministry of peace is concerned with making __________.
A.
instruments
B.
weapons
C.
wars
D.
reconciliation
Reveal Answer
reconciliation
18.
The subject matter of the novel is__________.
A.
totalitarian dictatorship
B.
exploitation and cruelty
C.
retributive justice
D.
class segregation.
Reveal Answer
exploitation and cruelty
19.
How did Winston start his rebellion against the state __________.
A.
By engaging in anti-party activities
B.
By keeping a private diary
C.
When he started a secret affair
D.
When he spied on the party.
Reveal Answer
By engaging in anti-party activities
20.
The party seeks power for________.
A.
the nation
B.
its own sake
C.
its members
D.
peoples\' sake
Reveal Answer
its own sake
21.
Questions 21 to 30 are based on selected poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.) New Poetry from African; Soyinka, (ed.) Poems of Black Africa; Senanu K.E. and Vincent T. (eds.): A selection of African Poetry; Umukoro, M et al (eds.) Exam Focus: literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D. I. (ed): West African Verse.

As the dancers move through paths strewn with glass chips, the images in Adeoti's Naked Soles change from _________.
A.
joy to excitement
B.
inaction to action
C.
pain to grief
D.
sorrow to joy
Reveal Answer
sorrow to joy
22.
Rubadiris's An African Thunderstorm, says that during thunderstorm in the village
A.
women cook their food
B.
children play in the rain
C.
children are delighted while women move in and out
D.
both women and children are delighted
Reveal Answer
children are delighted while women move in and out
23.

'Yet in their finger upon 

Our navel 

The midwives of the spirit say 

They feel a foetal throb.

 
The dominant literary device used  in the extract above from Acquahs' In the Navel of the Soul is _______.
A.
epigram
B.
allegory
C.
enjambment
D.
rhythm
Reveal Answer
enjambment
24.
In Kunene's A heritage of Liberation, the poet persona requests that the weapons of warfare be handed to their ________.
A.
friends
B.
relations
C.
grand children
D.
families
Reveal Answer
grand children
25.
The predominant device in Launko's End of the War is __________.
A.
onomatopoeia
B.
antithesis
C.
oxymoron
D.
paradox
Reveal Answer
paradox
26.
The theme of the poem Give Me The Minstrel's Seat centres on ___________.
A.
divorce
B.
fortune
C.
marriage
D.
companionship
Reveal Answer
companionship
27.
The poet persona in Marvell's To His Coy Mistress is willing to praise the lady's eyes for ________.
A.
thirty thousand years
B.
six decades
C.
two centuries
D.
a century
Reveal Answer
a century
28.
In Lawrence's Bat, the poet persona mistakes the bats for ______.
A.
owls
B.
swallows
C.
pipistrello
D.
sparrows
Reveal Answer
owls
29.
In Eliot's Journey of the Magi, the magi are aided on their journey by _______.
A.
donkeys
B.
horses
C.
camels
D.
chariots.
Reveal Answer
camels
30.
According to Cope's Sonnet VII, poetry is basically ________.
A.
boring
B.
therapeutic
C.
philosophical
D.
inspiring
Reveal Answer
therapeutic
31.
Questions 31 to 40 are based on General Literary Principles.

A play which mainly aims at provoking excessive laughter is called
A.
tragi-comedy
B.
comedy
C.
a farce
D.
satire
Reveal Answer
a farce
32.
Both comedy and tragedy have ________.
A.
happy ending
B.
climax
C.
tragic hero
D.
stanza
Reveal Answer
climax
33.
A formal dignified speech or writing praising a person or a thing for past or present deeds is _________.
A.
premiere
B.
eulogy
C.
anthology
D.
lampoon
Reveal Answer
eulogy
34.
The narrative style in which the hero tells his own story directly is the ___________.
A.
objective
B.
subjective
C.
first- person
D.
third-person.
Reveal Answer
first- person
35.
The physical, historical or cultural background of a literary work is referred to as ____________.
A.
episode
B.
plot
C.
time
D.
setting
Reveal Answer
setting
36.
A plot structure that defies chronology can be described as ____________.
A.
open-ended
B.
circular
C.
episodic
D.
organic
Reveal Answer
organic
37.
Pun as a literary device deals with _______.
A.
placing two opposite phrases
B.
placing words side by side
C.
playing on words
D.
arrangement of words
Reveal Answer
playing on words
38.
In a narrative poem, the poet attempts to ____________.
A.
summarize a story
B.
describe a place
C.
preach a sermon
D.
tell a story
Reveal Answer
tell a story
39.
The account of experiences of an individual during the course of a journey is known as ______________.
A.
a travelogue
B.
an autobiography
C.
a catalogue
D.
a memoir
Reveal Answer
a travelogue
40.
Satirical writing employs _____________.
A.
epigram
B.
synecdoche
C.
irony
D.
onomatopoeia
Reveal Answer
irony
41.
Questions 41 to 50 are based on Literary Appreciation.

Use the quotation below to answer questions 41 and 42.

'Basha: You dumb skull of a bone head . . . you will face court martial for this. You look everywhere? You search inside toilet bowl?'
Wole Soyinka: King Baabu

The person being addressed above is a _______.
A.
soldier
B.
student
C.
domestic servant
D.
lawyer
Reveal Answer
soldier
42.
From the tone of the speech above, the speaker is obviously
A.
enraged
B.
lackadaisical
C.
elated
D.
happy
Reveal Answer
enraged
43.
'That year the harvest was sad, like a funeral, and many farmers wept as they dug up the miserable yams. One man tied his cloth to a tree branch and hanged himself'. 
Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart
 
The mood conveyed in the excerpt above is one of __________.
A.
sadness
B.
frustration
C.
sympathy
D.
dilemma
Reveal Answer
sadness
44.
'That age is best which is the first, 
when youth and blood are warmer, 
But being spent, the worse, and worst 
Time still succeed the former.

The rhyme scheme in the excerpt above is _________.


A.
bbaa
B.
aabb
C.
abab
D.
abba
Reveal Answer
abab
45.
But the towering earth was tired sitting in one position. She moved, suddenly, and the houses crumbled, 
the mountains heaved horribly, 
and the work of a million years was lost.

The subject matter of the extract above is ____________.
A.
storm
B.
sea waves
C.
house movement
D.
earthquake
Reveal Answer
earthquake
46.
And your laughter like a flame piercing the shadows 
Has revealed Africa to me beyond the snow of yesterday.

From the poem above, shadow  means ______________.
A.
famine
B.
bleak future
C.
period of sufferings
D.
abstract ideas
Reveal Answer
abstract ideas
47.
Don't panic. Be calm, If you are some how upset ...try to regain your exposure.

The speaker in the excerpt above is _________.
A.
hopeless
B.
uncertain
C.
afraid
D.
confident
Reveal Answer
confident
48.
Use the lines below to answer questions 48 and 49.

Move him into the sun Gently its touch awoke him once, At home, whispering of fields unsown Always it woke him even in France Until this
 
morning and this snow If anything might rouse him now This kind old sun will know Think how it wakes the seeds Woke, once, the clays of a cold star Are limbs, so dear achieved, are sides Full nerved still swarm too hard to stir Was it, for this the clay grew tall? 0 what made fatuous sunbeams toil To break earth's sleep at all.

The poem can be described as _________. 
A.
a lyric
B.
an epic
C.
a sonnet
D.
an elegy
Reveal Answer
a sonnet
49.
The theme of the poem is ______________.
A.
futility of life
B.
distortion of life
C.
creation of life
D.
vanity of life
Reveal Answer
futility of life
50.
A cursing rogue with a merry farce,
A bundle of rags upon a crutch,
Stumbled upon that windy place
Called cruachan, and it was as much.

The rhyme scheme of the stanza above is __________.
A.
aabb
B.
abab
C.
bbaa
D.
abba
Reveal Answer
abab

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