Jamb Literature in English 1982 Past Questions and Answers

Question 16:

• JAMB 1982

Keats' 'Ode to a Nightingale' is a romantic poem because

A. It depends a great deal on the poet's spontaneous response to beauty
B. It is a poem about love
C. Nightingale symbolizes love
D. It was addressed to one of Keats' friends called Nightingale
E. Keats first described the poem as a romantic poem.

Question 17:

• JAMB 1982

In Mine Boy Peter Abraham's is of the view that in South Africa

A. A black and white should live and develop separately
B. Racial harmony is desirable and possible
C. Black should never cooperate with white
D. Racial harmony is merewishful thinking
E. The conflict between black and white can never end.

Question 18:

• JAMB 1982

'He sat down on a box. he took out letter he had received from Joseph the other Friday and read it again. Then he put it back. A tear, a single tear, ran down his face. he rubbed it off, rather impatiently. he poured water, cold water from a cup, into one hand and washed his face.
He was suddenly very lucid, calm inside'.
What makes this scene taken from a novel very real to the reader is the writer's use of

A. Imagery
B. Simile
C. Details
D. Uncommon words
E. Metaphor

Question 19:

• JAMB 1982

'Folk all fade. And whither.
As i wait alone where the fair was?
Into the clammy and numbing night fog
Whence they entered hither
Soon one more goes thither!
In these lines, 'the clammy and numbing night fog' (line3) refers to

A. A night in the poet's life
B. Unpleasant weather conditions
C. Life's problem and misfortunes
D. The state before birth and after death
E. Darkness after sunset

Question 20:

• JAMB 1982

'Dead leaves blew into the room.
And alighted upon my bed.
Ans a tree declared to the gloom
Its sorrow that they were shed'
The mood registered in these lines is

A. Excitement
B. Depression
C. Gaiety
D. Happiness
E. Persimism