Jamb Literature in English Past Questions and Answers

Question 526:

• JAMB 1982

In Mine Boy, the dominant shebeen queen who is described as 'tall and big, with the smooth yellowness of the Basuto women...'is

A. Ma Plank
B. Leah
C. Eliza
D. Lena
E. Maisy.

Question 527:

• JAMB 1982

'Local colour'in a novel or play is feature which

A. Defines the nature of the vegetation of the setting
B. Explains the difference in patterns of behaviours of our characters
C. Refers to the racial backgrounds of the major characters in the novels or play
D. Emphazises the customs, norms, values and setting of the novel or play
E. Highlights thye ethnic origins of the various characters in the novel or play.

Question 528:

• JAMB 1982

''London''
I wander thro'' each charter''d street
Near where the charter''d Thames does flow,
And mark in every face i meet
Marks of weakness, marks of woe
In every cry of every Man
In every infant''s cry of fear,
In every voice, in every ban,
The mind-forged manacles i hear.
How the chimney-sweeper''s cry
Every black''ning Church appalls;
And the hapless Soldier''s sigh
Runs in blood down Palace walls.
But most thro'' midnight streets i hear
How the youthful Harlot''s curse
Blasts the new born infant''s tear,
And blights with plagues the marriage hearse.
The stanza form in ''London'' is referred to as

A. A quartet
B. A quatrain
C. A quadruple
D. Quintet
E. Sestet.

Question 529:

• JAMB 1982

Kaunda's reminiscences of his boyhood in Lubwa were

A. Completely happy
B. A mixture in Lubwa and hatred of his playmates
C. Dominated by entirely painful incidents
D. A mixture od sad and happy expiriences
E. A combination of regret and hatred of the teachers

Question 530:

• JAMB 1982

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness.
Close bosom-friend of the mating sun:
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the
thatch-eves run;
To bend with apples and moss'd cottage tress
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the ground, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,
For summer has o'er brimm'd their clammy cells.
The most important figure of speech in the above passage is

A. Paradox
B. Personification
C. Metaphor
D. Simile
E. Onomatopoeia.