Jamb Literature in English 2001 Past Questions and Answers

Question 6:

• JAMB 2001

This question is based on Literary Appreciation.
'We have been asleep, Mr. Speaker, my fellow citizens; asleep in our dream of security! Asleep in our well-meaning, sportsmanlike way of wishing the other fellow well. Asleep in the false security of accepting all men of goodwill who would be free as men of honor.'
Ralph Ellison, Juneteenth.
The force of the speech above is sustained on.

A. Delivery
B. Musicality
C. Repetition
D. Oratory

Question 7:

• JAMB 2001

This question is based on Literary Appreciation.
'Thomas Gradgrind, sir. A man who proceeds upon the principle that two is not to be talked into allowing for anything over.'Charles Dickens, Hard Times
From the passage above, Thomas Gradgrind is

A. Dogmatic
B. Hostile
C. Theoretical
D. Eloguent

Question 8:

• JAMB 2001

This question is based on Literary Appreciation.
'Jose Palacios, his oldest servant, found him floating naked with his eyes open in the purifying waters of his bath and thought he had drowned.
He knew this was one of the many ways the General meditated, but the ecstasy in which he lay drifting seemed that of a man no longer of this world.'
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, The General in His Labyrinth.
The master in the passage above is obviously in a state of

A. Labyrinth
B. Drowning
C. Forgetfulness
D. Trance

Question 9:

• JAMB 2001

This question is based on Ernest Hermingway's The Old Man and the Sea
The character 'boy' is used alongside 'the old Man' in the novel to demonstrate.

A. The humiliation that is in old age
B. Man's refudeal to grow old
C. Different types of characters in the story
D. The failing productivity that accompanies old age

Question 10:

• JAMB 2001

This question is based on Ernest Hermingway's The Old Man and the Sea
The skeleton of the marlin implies the

A. Sharks' predatory inclination
B. Futility of human struggle
C. Old man's lack of faith
D. Old man's incompetence in fishing