Jamb Literature in English 1993 Past Questions and Answers

Question 46:

• JAMB 1993

This question is based on Literary Principles.
'He sprung about the room in thick socks, from fridge to bread bin to table, where he buttered and chopped and sliced and sprinkled. Deft and efficient; lithe like a cat, or a ballet dancer'.
Georgina Hammick, Habits
The passage above suggests

A. Haste
B. Lack of organization
C. Controlled movement
D. Untidiness

Question 47:

• JAMB 1993

This question is based on Literary Principles.'
Immersed in the great depression, they had kept their families together, kept their feet from touching bottom, and kept their faith in the future-their children's future more than their own
John Updike, Beech: A Book
In the above passage, ''Kept their feet from touching bottom'' suggests staying

A. Afloat literally
B. Buoyant economically
C. Alive
D. Affluent

Question 48:

• JAMB 1993

This question is based on Literary Principles.
'Otto's wife was a potter. Nessa remembered Sandra. Davis telling hr this. Not just a wife, not just a mother- as Nesa's own mother had been, as all the women in her childhood were and were expected to be: cooks and floor scrubbers, fanatical table polishers and chairback starchers nest builders.'
Georgina Hammie, Habits
In the passage above, Otto's wife

A. Scrubbed floors and polished tyables like the other women
B. Was a pooter and was therefore spared other domestic jobs
C. Was a potter like Nessa's mother
D. Was a potter in addition to being a wife and mother

Question 49:

• JAMB 1993

This question is based on Literary Principles.
'In the cold hands of death...
his mouth was cotton filled, his brain on scales-was this a trick to prove fore-knowledge after death ?
Wole Soyinka: Post Mortem'
These two stanzas capture the

A. Fear of death
B. Ugliness of death
C. Mystery of death
D. Knowledge of death

Question 50:

• JAMB 1993

This question is based on Literary Principles.
''Virture in Russia as in his childhood, seemed something that arose from men, like a comforting body odour, rather than something from above that impaled the struggling soul like a moth on a pin.''
John Updike, Beech: A Book
The tone of the passage above is

A. Authoritative
B. Mocking
C. Appreciative
D. Scathing