Jamb Literature in English Past Questions and Answers

Question 811:

• JAMB 1988

THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON SELECTED POEMS FROM D.I. NWOGA'S (ED.): WEST AFRICAN VERSE.
In Christopher Okigbo's 'Idoto'Idoto symbolizes

A. An object of religious worship
B. The poet's mother
C. The poet's cultural traditions
D. A river in the poet's village

Question 812:

• JAMB 1988

THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON SELECTED POEMS FROM D.I. NWOGA'S (ED.): WEST AFRICAN VERSE.
'Before you, mother Idoto, naked I stand before your watery presence a prodigal'.
In the above lines from Christopher Okadigbo's Idoto, the speaker is a 'prodigal' because he

A. Has wasted all his mother's money
B. Is money
C. Has come back to worship the godess which he has neglected
D. Has been caught discraching the shrine of the godess

Question 813:

• JAMB 1988

This question is based on selected poems from D.I. Nwoga's (ed.): West African Verse.
The title of Birago Diop's 'Vanity', is intrigue because the people described in the poem are

A. Inglorious
B. Gentle
C. Wretches
D. Humble

Question 814:

• JAMB 1988

This question is based on Isidore Okpewho's The Victims.
The real victims are

A. Ndidi and Ogo
B. Nwanze and Obanua
C. Ubaka and Bomboy
D. Nwabunor and Ogugua

Question 815:

• JAMB 1988

This question is based on Isidore Okpewho's The Victims.
The fact that the Roman Catholic priest fears and believes that the white robed figures seen in the night are spirits confirms that

A. The priest was only an impostor
B. Superstition reigns superme in Ozala
C. Traditional religion will never succumb to Christianity in Ozala
D. The pieces of stones these white robed figures carried away were indeed sacred