LITERARY APPRECIATION - Jamb Literature in English Past Questions and Answers

Question 71:

• 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 72:

• 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 73:

• 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 74:

• 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 75:

• 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