Jamb Literature in English 1983 Past Questions and Answers

Question 1:

• JAMB 1983

Marcus Antonius roused the public to mutiny in his funeral speech in Julius Ceasar partly because he succeeded in discrediting Brutus ans Cassius by calling them 'honorable men', when in fact he consciously organized his speech to prove that they were dishonorable. This device is known as

A. Allegory
B. Hyperbole
C. Irony
D. 'O Julius Caesar! thou art might yet!

Question 2:

• JAMB 1983

Marcus Antonius roused the public to mutiny in his funeral speech in Julius Ceasar partly because he succeeded in discrediting Brutus ans Cassius by calling them 'honorable men', when in fact he consciously organized his speech to prove that they were dishonorable. This device is known as

A. Allegory
B. Hyperbole
C. Irony
D. 'O Julius Caesar! thou art might yet!

Question 3:

• JAMB 1983

'O Julius Caesar!art mighty yet!
Thy spirit walks abroad and turns our swords.
In our own proper entrails'.
These lines were spoken by

A. Cassius before the corpse of Brutus
B. Cassius before the corpse of Caesar
C. Brutus before the corpse Cassius
D. Titinius before the corpse Cato
E. Brutus before the corpse Portia.

Question 4:

• JAMB 1983

'Night hangs upon mine eyes; my bones would rest, that have but laboured to attain this hour'.
Brutus' words in the above lines come

A. After the conclution of the plan to kill caesar
B. Soon after his wife's insisted to know the object of his unusual brooding
C. As part of his famous address to his fellow Romans
D. During a brief meeting between him and Cassius on how to counter the forces of Octavius and Antony
E. After his defeat by the forces of Octavius and Antony.

Question 5:

• JAMB 1983

There is a tide in the affairs of man
Which, taken at the flood, lead on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shadows, and miseries.
This is a statement made by

A. Antonu, urging Caesar to take the crown
B. Cassius, urging Brutus to join the struggle to remove Caesar before he grows into tyrant
C. Brutus, urging that Cassius and himself lead out their forces to meet those of Antony and Octavius at Philippi
D. Casca, urging that the conspirators explain their cause to the populace before their motives are misunderstood
E. Messala, urging Titinius to search for Pindarus.