Appreciation - Jamb Literature in English Past Questions and Answers

Question 46:

• JAMB 1978

The casualties referred to in 'Casualties' are

A. People killed during the civil war
B. Those who were wounded and had to endure a lot of pain
C. Those who lost their properties and relations
D. Victims of the Nigerian Civil War,both the living and the dead
E. None of these

Question 47:

• JAMB 1978

Wole Soyinka's 'Telephone Conversation' is

A. An attack on the British telephone system
B. A complaint about the difficulty of getting telephones installed in private houses
C. About the colour of Soyinka's passport
D. A humorous but satirical comment on colour prejudice in Britain
E. About the game of hide and seek

Question 48:

• JAMB 1978

'All's over,Sweet',he cried
To the wife,thus guise;for the young page was she
'Tis as we hoped and said't would be.
He never guessed...we mount and ride
To where our love can reign uneyed
He's clay,and we are free.
From Thomas Hardy's,The Duel)
The theme of this poem is

A. Bravery
B. Honour
C. Betrayal
D. Death of a fool
E. The evil of duelling

Question 49:

• JAMB 1978

Your hand is heavy,upon my brow
I bear no heart mercuric like the clouds,to dare
Exacerbation from your subtle plough.
Woman as a clam,on the sea's crescent
I saw your jealous eye quench the sea's
Fluorescence,dance on the pulse incessant
Of the waves.And i stood,drained
Submitting like the sands,blood and brine
coursing to the roots.Night,you rained
Serrated shadows through dank leaves
Till,bathed in warm suffusion of your dappled calls
Sensations pained me,faceless,silent as night thieves.
Hide me now,when night children haunt the earth
i must hear none!These misted calls will yet
Undo me;naked,unbidden,at night's muted birth
('Night' by Wole Soyinka)
in the poem above,Soyinka,

A. Describes nightfall and its effect on him
B. Does not wish to surrender to night
C. Rejects the night's presence
D. Says that night has no progress
E. Does not need protection from the dangers of the night

Question 50:

• JAMB 1978

'The seas eats our lands' by Kwesi Brew
Here stood our ancestral home:
The crumbling wall marks the spot.
Here a sheep was led to the slaughter
To appease the gods and atone
For faults which our destiny
Has blossomed into crimes
There my cursed father once stood
And shouted to us,his children,
To come back from our play
To our evening meal and sleep
The clouds were thickening in the red sky
And night had charmed
A black power into the pounding waves.
Here once lay Keta
Now her golden girls
Erode into the arms
of strange towns.
In this poem,

A. The gods are being abused for their causing a natural disaster
B. The poet's father is being' cursed' for stopping the children's play
C. A natural disaster is linked to the moral and religious life if a people
D. The'golden girls' are praised for leaving home to go to the city
E. Nature is seen as an enemy