Jamb Literature in English 1980 Past Questions and Answers

Question 36:

• JAMB 1980

'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

A. Fun
B. Ill heath
C. Carelessness
D. Sacrifice
E. Dicting

Question 37:

• JAMB 1980

'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

A. The beauty of the morning gains from the beauty of the city
B. The beauty of the city gains from the beauty of the morning
C. The beauty of the city and the beauty of the morning are unrelated
D. The beauty of the same has nothing to do with either the city or the morning
E. There is no beauty on earth

Question 38:

• JAMB 1980

'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

A. Of habit
B. Of poor means
C. Of wide literary interest
D. With poor memory
E. Who loved her mother

Question 39:

• JAMB 1980

'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

A. Simile
B. Metaphor
C. Polysyndeton
D. Monosyndeton
E. Alliteration

Question 40:

• JAMB 1980

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

A. Gratitude
B. Love
C. Hate
D. Joy
E. Safety