Jamb Literature in English 1983 Past Questions and Answers

Question 46:

• JAMB 1983

'I have wandered on the wilderness
The great wilderness men call life
The rain has beaten me,
And the sharp stumps cut as keen as knives'
For the writer of these lines, living in an experience to be described as

A. Pleasant
B. Difficult
C. Rewarding
D. Exicting
E. Bracing.

Question 47:

• JAMB 1983

'A clear, frosty night. Unusual brilliance and perfection of everything visible. Earth, sky, moon, and stars, all seem cemented, riveted together by the first. Shadows of trees be across the paths, so sharp that they seemed carved in relief. You keep thinking you see dark figures endlessly cross the road at various places'.
This passage achieves its beautiful effect partly because of its repeated appeal to the sense of

A. Taste
B. Touch
C. Sight
D. Smell
E. Hearing

Question 48:

• JAMB 1983

'He was tall and huge, and his bushy eyebrows and wide nose gave him a very severe look. He breathed heavily, and it was said that, when he slept, his wives and children in their houses could hear him breath'. This passage achieves vividness through the use of

A. Details
B. Simple words
C. Short sentences
D. The past tense
E. Puntuation.

Question 49:

• JAMB 1983

'O murderous slumber! Layest thou thy laden mace upon my boy, that plays thee must. The quoted passage is an example of

A. Memorization
B. Personification
C. Simile
D. Apostrophe
E. Allusion

Question 50:

• JAMB 1983

Animal Farm is a fable illustrating the inevitable degeneration of revolutionary ideals. According to the novel, this degeneration occurs because

A. Social equality, the goal of such idealism, is actually undersirable
B. Revolutionary ideals are dreamed by blood-thirsty individuals
C. Man's greedy individualistic nature always subverts the realization of ideals
D. Revolutionary ideals are inimical to progress
E. Animals are the wrong characters to illustrate man's weaknesses.