Jamb Literature in English 2017 Past Questions and Answers

Question 1:

• JAMB 2017

This question is based on Bayo Adebowale's Lonely Days


Yaremi's main job is

A. Selling cassava
B. Harvesting cassava
C. Dyeing taffeta cloths
D. Sewing taffeta cloths

Question 2:

• JAMB 2017

This question is based on Frank Ogodo Ogbeche's Harvest of Corruption

Who impregnated Aloho?

A. The Commissioner
B. Chief Haladu
C. Justice Odili
D. Inspector Inaku

Question 3:

• JAMB 2017

_______ In literature is the sequential arrangement of events in a creative work

A. Cast
B. Summary
C. Flaw
D. Plot

Question 4:

• JAMB 2017

This question is based on Faceless by Amma Darko

What is the reason that caused Odarley's mother to send him away from home?

A. She chose to go to the street
B. Her mother remarried
C. She steals her mother things
D. She wants to poison her boyfriend

Question 5:

• JAMB 2017

This question is based on Selected Poems from Johnson, R et al(eds): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, (ed); Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E, and Vicent, T.(ed.):
A Selection of African Poetry; Gbemisola A.: Naked Soles; Hayward, J.(ed.); The Penguin Book of English Verse and Nwoga, D.(ed.): West African Verse.


Tennyon's Crossing the Bar is ________?

A. A celebration of life
B. An appreciation of nature
C. A demystication of death
D. A celebration of the final passage