Jamb Literature in English 2010 Past Questions and Answers

Question 46:

• JAMB 2010

These questions are based on Literary Appreciation
And your laughter like a flame piercing the shadows have revealed Africa to me beyond the snow of yesterday.
from the poem above, SHADOW means

A. Bleak future
B. Period of suffering
C. Abstract ideas
D. Famine

Question 47:

• JAMB 2010

These questions are based on Literary Appreciation
Don't panic. Be calm. If you are somehow upset... try to regain you exposure.
The speaker in the excerpt above is

A. Uncertain
B. Afraid
C. Confidant
D. Hopeless

Question 48:

• JAMB 2010

use the lines below to answer these two questions.
Move him into the sun
Gently its touch awoke him once,
At home, whispering of fields unsown
Always it woke him even in France
Until this morning and this snow
If anything might rouse him now
This kind old sun will know
Think how it wakes the seeds
Wake, once,the clays of a cold star
Are limbs. so dear achieved, are
sides Full nerved still warm too hard to stir Was it, for this the clay grew tall?O what made fatuous sunbeams toil To break earth's sleep at all.
THE POEM CAN BE DESCRIBED AS

A. An epic
B. A sonnet
C. An elegy
D. A lyric

Question 49:

• JAMB 2010

Woke, once, the clays of a cold star
Are limbs, so dear achieved. are
Sides full nerved still warm too hard
To stir was it, for this the clay grew
Tall? O what made fatuous sunbeams
Toil to break earth's sleep at all
Use the lines above to answer this questions;
The theme of the poem is

A. Distortion of life
B. Creation of life
C. Vanity of life
D. Futility of life