LITERARY APPRECIATION - Jamb Literature in English Past Questions and Answers

Question 51:

• JAMB 1980

'Earth has not anything to show more fair.
Dull would he be of soul who could pass by
A sight so touching in its majesty:
This city now doth, like a garment, wear
The beauty of the morning'.
It is suggested in this lines that

A. The beauty of the morning gains from the beauty of the city
B. The beauty of the city gains from the beauty of the morning
C. The beauty of the city and the beauty of the morning are unrelated
D. The beauty of the same has nothing to do with either the city or the morning
E. There is no beauty on earth

Question 52:

• JAMB 1980

'She unpacked the novels she has brought with her, and turned them over. These were the books she had collected over years from the mass that had come her way. She had read each one a dozen times, knowing it by heart, following the familiar tales as a child listens to his mother telling him a well-known fairy tale'.
This character may best be described as a woman

A. Of habit
B. Of poor means
C. Of wide literary interest
D. With poor memory
E. Who loved her mother

Question 53:

• JAMB 1981

'Such drizzling can go on for many days', she said in a dull voice. They both relapsed into silence, making a picture of bereaved children from whom life has suddenly lost warmth, colour, and excitement. There was no fire in the hearth. The mood caught in this scene is one of

A. Excitement
B. Warmth
C. Hopefulness
D. High spirits
E. Sadness.

Question 54:

• JAMB 1981

'Had I the heaven's embroidered cloths; Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths of night and light and the half-lighgt i would spread the cloths under your feet: But |, being poor, have only my dreams; l have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams'.
The poet of these lines

A. Shows cheap love
B. Is incapable of seriousness
C. Consider heaven's cloth worthless
D. Is a sensitive, serious lover
E. Is an unrealistic, wishful man

Question 55:

• JAMB 1981

'During this speech the elders who didn't understand a word of what their learned secretary was saying nodded approval intermittently. When it was over the elders said yes, they had a learned man indeed, a man who could speak for them, a man who knew the wisdom of the old white people, not like the small boys nowadays who cant even read a telegram'.
In these passage the elders are presented as

A. Very admireable people
B. Decent and honest
C. Impressed by the secretary
D. Impressively learned
E. Distinctly progressive