LITERARY APPRECIATION - Jamb Literature in English Past Questions and Answers

Question 46:

• JAMB 1979

A woman cried out.The policeman who was edging nearer had been joined by another.Both were edging nearer.Carefully and slowly.But it was not that that had made the woman cry out.She had seen one of the men's hand slip.He was now holding on by one hand only.The crowd was tense.This was the Kill.Automatically they moved forward in a body.The doctor was in the lead.
The author of this passage creates in the reader

A. Disbelief
B. A feeling of nostalgia
C. A feeling of light hearted relaxation
D. Suspense
E. Unconcern

Question 47:

• JAMB 1980

'I am become a name;
For always roaming with a hungry heart
Much have i seen and known; cities of men
And manners, climates, council, governments'
These line fairly represent the attitude of Ulysses' life. This attitude may be described as

A. Complaining continually about life
B. Unwillingness to agree and work with others.
C. Ceaseless labour and search for challenges
D. Dislike of one's country or home
E. Roaming and idling.

Question 48:

• JAMB 1980

'If i could have put u in my heart,
If but i could have wrapped you in myself
How glad i should have been!
And now the chart
Of memory unrolls again to me
The course of our journey here, here where we part....'
An appropriate title for these lines is.....

A. The end
B. A lover's Hope
C. Joy's of being in love
D. The journey of life
E. Glad lover

Question 49:

• JAMB 1980

''When he was turned over, his eyeballs started upward in amazement and horror, his was locked torn wide: his trousers soaked with blood, were torn open, and exposed to the cold, white air of morning the thick hairs of his groin, mattered together, black and rust red, and the wound that seemed to be throbbing still''.
The passage achieve realism through the use of

A. Details
B. Simple words
C. The long sentence
D. The past tense
E. Punctuation.

Question 50:

• JAMB 1980

'We are all diseas'd,
And with our surfeiting, and wanton hours,
Have brought ourselves into a burning fever
And we must bleed for it'.
The images in the passage mostly draw attention to

A. Fun
B. Ill heath
C. Carelessness
D. Sacrifice
E. Dicting