Jamb Literature in English Past Questions and Answers

Question 746:

• JAMB 1987

'No, let them attack me. Is it not Ignorance that makes the rat attack the cat? Ten thousand of them-let them ... attack me. they have the arms, they have the swords. But me... I have only one weapon and this i have used, and mine is the victory...'
The one weapon to which the speaker in The Gods Are Not To Blame refers is

A. Pprophecy
B. Courage
C. Truth
D. Justice.

Question 747:

• JAMB 1987

'The let these eyes around me close, Close close in sleep, close in sleep. That is my word-the mountain always sleeps. Sleep Sleep... sleep..sleep...'
These lines from The Gods Are Not To Blame were chanted by

A. Iya Aburo to mesmerise her son
B. Baba Fakunle to mesmerise his assailants
C. Odewale to mesmerise his assailants
D. Old man to mesmerise Odewale.

Question 748:

• JAMB 1987

'But Obatal,
God Creation,
has a way
of consoling the distressed.
The consolation referred to by the narrator in The Gods Are Not To Blame is the

A. Great peace that reigned in the land of Kutuje
B. Subjugation of the warlike people of Ikolu
C. Pregnancy of Aburo, Odewale's second wife
D. Birth of Aderopo by Ojuola.

Question 749:

• JAMB 1987

FIRST BODYGUARD: A madman wanting to see the king! The world, indeed, is mad OJUOLA: How do you know he is a madman?
Which of the following is the answer given by the second bodyguard to Ojuola in The Gods Are Not To Blame?

A. Everyone can see he is mad, your highness
B. Only a madman would want to see the king now, your highness
C. We all know him very well, your highness
D. He is not a man of our tribe, your highness.

Question 750:

• JAMB 1987

'From forth the fatal lions of these two foes
A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life...'
These lines from Romeo and Juliet suggest that the

A. Tragedy could have been averted
B. Tragedy was predestined
C. Tragedy was brought on by enmity
D. Lovers brought misfortune on themselves.