Jamb Literature in English 1983 Past Questions and Answers

Question 26:

• JAMB 1983

Artistically, Okonkwo's seven years' exile is a device used by Achebe to

A. To introduce comic relief
B. Keep Okonkwo at a distance from the movement of the mind of Umuofia
C. Serve as a warning to other members of the Umuofia community
D. Shows that wilful crime does not pay
E. De-emphizes the role of Okonkwo in the novel

Question 27:

• JAMB 1983

'...No, my friend, he is not too young. A chick that will grow into a cock can be spotted the very day it hatches. i have done my best to make Nwoye grow into a man, but there is too much of his mother in him.'
The truth, which Okonkwo knows but cannot bring himself to state, is that Nwoye is what he is because there is in him too much of

A. His father
B. His grandfather
C. Ikemefuna
D. His grandmother
E. Ezinma

Question 28:

• JAMB 1983

The title of Achebe Things Fall Apart is taken from poem written by

A. T.S Eliot
B. William Shakespeare
C. William Wordsworth
D. Wole Soyinka
E. W.B Yeats.

Question 29:

• JAMB 1983

The novel Thin gs Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe was first published in

A. 1948
B. 1952
C. 1958
D. 1960
E. 1962

Question 30:

• JAMB 1983

A Sonnet is a poem of

A. Seven lines
B. Three lines
C. Four lines
D. Fourteen lines
E. Twelve lines.