Jamb Literature in English Past Questions and Answers

Question 741:

• JAMB 1986

'Nature sent him into the world strong and lusty, in a thriving condition, wearing his own hair on his head the proper branches of this reasoning vegetable, until the axe of intemperance has lopped off his green boughs, and left him a withered trunk...'
In this passage, axe of intemperance means

A. Hot temper
B. Cool temper
C. Evil mind
D. Recklessness.

Question 742:

• JAMB 1986

From that moment on he began to notice what was happening in town, but in a very inexact way, for Father Anthony Isabel, in part because of his age and in part also because he swore he had seen the devil on three occasions (something which seem to the town just a bit out of place), was considered by his parishioners as a good man, peaceful and obliging, but with his head habitually in the clouds.
The phrase, something which seemed to the town just a bit out of place, is an example of

A. Hyperbole
B. Understatement
C. Sarcasm
D. Synecdoche.

Question 743:

• JAMB 1986

'In Germany, under the law, everything is prohibited except that which is permitted, in the Soviet Union, everything is prohibited, including that which is permitted'. The last sentence is an example of

A. Innuendo
B. Paradox
C. Euphemism
D. Allusion.

Question 744:

• JAMB 1987

In the play The Gods Are Not To Blame, Odewale became King of Kutuje by

A. Usurpation in a typical Ijekun manner
B. Deserting the poeple of Ikolu whose army he led
C. Divulging the war secrets of Ikolu to Kutuje
D. Leading Kutuje in a war against Ikolu.

Question 745:

• JAMB 1987

In the play The Gods Are Not To Blame, Odewale became King of Kutuje by

A. Usurpation in a typical Ijekun manner
B. Deserting the poeple of Ikolu whose army he led
C. Divulging the war secrets of Ikolu to Kutuje
D. Leading Kutuje in a war against Ikolu.