Jamb Literature in English Past Questions and Answers

Question 521:

• JAMB 1982

He would like some good Fufu, but without a lot of meat, street Fufu is miserable food, and with meat the cost will crucify a man completely.
The man in this passage is obviously

A. A rich man
B. A poor man
C. An ignorant man
D. A rich ignorant man
E. A poor unthinking man

Question 522:

• JAMB 1982

'And now the bells are chiming
A year is born
'And my heart bell is ringing
in a dawn'
The writer of these words is in a state of

A. Exuberance
B. Dejection
C. Despair
D. Joyful hope
E. Dismal sorrow.

Question 523:

• JAMB 1982

Science, that simple saint, cannot be bothered Figuring what anything is far;
Enough for her devotions that things are And can be contemplated soon as gathered
She knows how every living thing was fathered,
She calculates the climate of each star,
She counts the fish at sea, but cannot care
Why any one of them exists, fish, fire or feathered
The dominant rhetorical device used in the poem is

A. Apostrophe
B. Personification
C. Metonymy
D. Synecdoche
E. Simile.

Question 524:

• JAMB 1982

Science, that simple saint, cannot be bothered Figuring what anything is far;
Enough for her devotions that things are And can be contemplated soon as gathered
She knows how every living thing was fathered,
She calculates the climate of each star,
She counts the fish at sea, but cannot care
Why any one of them exists, fish, fire or feathered
The poet suggests that science

A. Teaches us everything about life
B. Deals with the causes of natural phenomena
C. Does not deal with the causes of natural phenomena
D. Teaches us how to contemplate
E. Does not teaches us how to contemplate

Question 525:

• JAMB 1982

In Zambia Shall Be Free Kaunda's 'wandering day's resulted from his

A. Desire to visit other territories
B. Need to assert himself by being on his own
C. Disagreement with the members of his family
D. Need to join other political parties
E. Disagreement eith his employers