Jamb Literature in English Past Questions and Answers

Question 696:

• JAMB 1986

'...the toad likes water but not when the water is boiling'. King Odewale in the Gods Are Not To Blame uses this proverb to explain why he

A. He exiled himself from the home of his supposed parents.
B. Exiled Aderopo from his presence
C. Treated Baba Fakunle with disrespect
D. No longer likes the land of Kutuje.

Question 697:

• JAMB 1986

Baba Fakunle: How much did he give you boy?
Boy: Ten cowries, Baba.
Baba Fakunle: Hand him back nine.
The order to return nine cowries was given by Baba Fakunle because he

A. Wanted to spit the King by taking only one cowrie
B. Felt insulted that he was given only ten cowries
C. Did not want to meddle with leprous monry given with bloody hands
D. Wanted to emphasize that the messanger of Olodumare takes only one cowrie.

Question 698:

• JAMB 1986

''When the frog in front falls in a pit, others behind takes caution... When crocodiles eat their own eggs, what will they will they not do to the flesh of a frog?''
In the context of The Gods Are Not To Blame, the person who made this statement is alleging that king Adetusa

A. Died falling in to a pit
B. Fell victim to man eating crocodiles
C. Was killed by the people of Kutuje
D. Was killed by the Ijekun people.

Question 699:

• JAMB 1986

Odewale shifts the blame for his tragedy from the gods to himself and claims that his tragedy is a result of his own weakness. The weakness he claims is love of

A. Power
B. Adventure
C. His tribe
D. Divination.

Question 700:

• JAMB 1986

The treatment meted out to Cinna the poet in Julius Caesar shows

A. That roman soldiers despised poets generally
B. Shakespeare's use of mistaken identity for comic effect in the play
C. The misfortune of Roman poets
D. The spontaneous reaction of the plebians after assassination of Caesar.