Jamb Literature in English 1992 Past Questions and Answers

Question 46:

• JAMB 1992

This question is based on Ola Rotimi's Ovonramwen Nogbaisi.
GALLWAY (untying a parcel). 'Your Highness, our Queen, Her Royal Majesty Queen Victoria, asks us to extend her very best wishes to you;...... What is contained in the parcel which Gallway unties?

A. An inner tube of a bicycle
B. A royal message from Queen Victoria
C. A framed portrait of Queen Victoria
D. A bottle of gin

Question 47:

• JAMB 1992

This question is based on William Shakespeare's Macbeth.
Which of the following is the most fitting moral lesson that the reader can derive from the play?

A. It is not good to be over -ambitious
B. A determined wife is a curse to the husband
C. Power is sweet but always over-used
D. Every evil is punishable

Question 48:

• JAMB 1992

This question is based on William Shakespeare's Macbeth.
......Out, out, brief candle!....
This statement was made when

A. Macbeth received news of Banquo's death
B. Banquo received news of his son's death
C. Macbeth received news of his wife's death
D. Macbeth killed King Duncan

Question 49:

• JAMB 1992

This question is based on William Shakespeare's Macbeth.
;....I am in blood
Stepped in so far that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er'.
Who spoke these words?

A. Lady Macbeth
B. The fiest murderer
C. Macbeth
D. THE SECOND NURDERER