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Jamb Literature in English 1982 Past Questions and Answers

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Jamb 1982 Literature in English Past Questions

Question 26:


'But it has been from the first her great mistake to meet him, marry him, to love him as she so bitterly had. Looking at his face, it sometimes came to her that all women had been cursed from the cradle: all, in one fashion or another, being given the same cruel destiny, born to suffer the weight of men'.
The sentiment expressed here about the curse on women is

A. That of the writer of the passage
B. That of the lady in the passage
C. That of the lady's parent
D. That of everybody everywhere
E. That of unnamed person.


Question 27:


He would like some good Fufu, but without a lot of meat, street Fufu is miserable food, and with meat the cost will crucify a man completely.
The man in this passage is obviously

A. A rich man
B. A poor man
C. An ignorant man
D. A rich ignorant man
E. A poor unthinking man


Question 28:


'And now the bells are chiming
A year is born
'And my heart bell is ringing
in a dawn'
The writer of these words is in a state of

A. Exuberance
B. Dejection
C. Despair
D. Joyful hope
E. Dismal sorrow.


Question 29:


Science, that simple saint, cannot be bothered Figuring what anything is far;
Enough for her devotions that things are And can be contemplated soon as gathered
She knows how every living thing was fathered,
She calculates the climate of each star,
She counts the fish at sea, but cannot care
Why any one of them exists, fish, fire or feathered
The dominant rhetorical device used in the poem is

A. Apostrophe
B. Personification
C. Metonymy
D. Synecdoche
E. Simile.


Question 30:


Science, that simple saint, cannot be bothered Figuring what anything is far;
Enough for her devotions that things are And can be contemplated soon as gathered
She knows how every living thing was fathered,
She calculates the climate of each star,
She counts the fish at sea, but cannot care
Why any one of them exists, fish, fire or feathered
The poet suggests that science

A. Teaches us everything about life
B. Deals with the causes of natural phenomena
C. Does not deal with the causes of natural phenomena
D. Teaches us how to contemplate
E. Does not teaches us how to contemplate






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