Jamb Literature in English 1999 Past Questions and Answers

Question 6:

• JAMB 1999

This question is based on Camara Laye's The African Child.
The father permits his son to go to Paris because he

A. Sees no future in traditional African ways
B. Is encouraged by the missionaries
C. Wants him to be future leader
D. Wishes to free him from blacksmithing

Question 7:

• JAMB 1999

This question is based on Camara Laye's The African Child.
The author makes the reader believe his story by using

A. A confessional style
B. Elements of humour
C. Detailed description
D. Another narrator

Question 8:

• JAMB 1999

This question is based on Camara Laye's The African Child.
The novel is a mixture of

A. Fiction and fantasy
B. The objective and the absurd
C. Pessimism and optimism
D. The real and the supermatural

Question 9:

• JAMB 1999

This question is based on Camara Laye's The African Child.
Which of these features give the novel an African setting ?

A. Marabouts, spirits and family life
B. Family life, death and marabouts
C. Blacksmiths, spirits and magicians
D. Spirits, magicians and death

Question 10:

• JAMB 1999

This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's Second Class Citizen.
In Adah's view, the white society in the novel is one in which

A. There is communal feeling
B. Neighbourliness is lacking
C. Neighbours live happily
D. Members are unifriendly