Jamb Literature in English 1989 Past Questions and Answers

Question 1:

• JAMB 1989

This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel.
The immediate consequence of the publication of Sidi's pictures is to make her

A. Want to marry the photographer
B. Feel more important than Baroka
C. Want to go to the city
D. Appreciate Lakunle's learning

Question 2:

• JAMB 1989

This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel.
The immediate consequence of the publication of Sidi's pictures is to make her

A. Want to marry the photographer
B. Feel more important than Baroka
C. Want to go to the city
D. Appreciate Lakunle's learning

Question 3:

• JAMB 1989

This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel.
Lakunle:... To fetch and carry
To cook and scrub
To bring forth children by the gross
Sidi: Heaven forgive you! Do you now scorn child bearing in a wife?
What would Lakunle rather prefer to accomplish before child bearing ?

A. Good kissing habit
B. Formal education
C. Racial and sexual equality
D. Church wedding

Question 4:

• JAMB 1989

This question is based on George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man.
...What would Sergius, the hero of Slivnitza, say if he saw me now? What would Sergius, the apostle of higher love, say if he saw me now?
What would the half dozen Sergiuses who keep popping in and out of this handsome figure of mine say if they caught us here?''
These questions are addressed to

A. Louka
B. Sophia
C. Raina
D. Catherine

Question 5:

• JAMB 1989

This question is based on George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man.
'Excuse me Bluntschll what did you say had spoiled your chances in life?
According to Bluntschll what had spoiled his chances in life was

A. An irrepressible Casanovan trait
B. A chronic baromial temperament
C. A hard boiled classical disposition
D. An incurably romantic disposition