Textual Analysis - Jamb Literature in English Past Questions and Answers

Question 71:

• JAMB 1978

Romeo and Juliet
Juliet:O serpent heart,hid with a flowering face!
Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave
Beautiful tyrant:Fiend angelical
Dove-feathered raven!wolfish-ravening lamb
Despised substance of divinest show!
A damned saint,an honorable villain!
(From Romeo and Juliet)
Juliet is referring in the above passage to

A. Tybalt
B. Mercutio
C. Old Capulet
D. Lady Montague
E. Romeo

Question 72:

• JAMB 1978

Maria:If you desire the spleen,and will laugh
yourself into stitches,follow me.yond gull
Malvolio is turned heathen,a very renegado;
saved by believing rightly,can never believe
such impossible passages of grossness.
He's in yellow stockings.
Sir Toby:And cross-gartered?
Maria:Most villainously;like a pendant that keeps
a school in church.i have dogged him:
like his murderer.He does obey every point
of the letter that i dropped to betray him:
he does smile his face into more lines than
is in the new map with the augmentation of
the indies:you have not seen such a thing as
'tis.I can hardly forbear hurling things at
him:if she do,he'll smile and take it for
a great favour.
(Twelfth Night)
Which of the following statements reflects best the situation revealed above

A. Malvolio is greatly admired by Maria nad Sir Toby
B. Malvolio's dress and bearing will please Lady Olivia very much
C. Malvolio is decieved into doing things hated by Olivia
D. Malvolio is a heathen and pendant
E. The Author of Twelfth Night pokes fun at foolishly misguided people like Malvolio here

Question 73:

• JAMB 1978

In the fiction No Longer At Ease by Chinua Achebe,Obuajulu Okonkwo's fall can be traced to the fact that

A. The Nigerian society is often wicked to the individual
B. He is at bottom a very bad man
C. He believes in using bribes to get to the top
D. The weaknesses within him and the society unite to pull him down
E. He fancies women too much

Question 74:

• JAMB 1978

The Concubine by Elechi Amadi
The title of this novel is justified because

A. Ihuoma the heroine,is everyone's concubine
B. Ihuoma having once been married to Emenike has vowed never to marry again
C. Everyone who married Ihuoma or expressed a wish to do so came to harm
D. Ihuoma prefers to be mistress rather than a wife
E. Being the spirit-wife of the jealous sea-king,any marriage subsequently contracted cannot be valid;she is condemned to the status of a concubine.

Question 75:

• JAMB 1979

Which of these secondary characters stands out from the others in the development of the action in Ozidi?

A. Ofe
B. Azezabife
C. Oguaran
D. Agbogidi
E. Odogu