Jamb Literature in English Past Questions and Answers

Question 816:

• JAMB 1988

This question is based on Isidore Okpewho's The Victims.
One thing that Obanua found in the bar which he is unlikely to get at home is

A. Food
B. Job
C. Security
D. Power

Question 817:

• JAMB 1988

This question is based on Isidore Okpewho's The Victims.
'It ish only becaush of your late feda that we have been sho shilent. When we came to thish town and had nowhere to shtay, hw gave ush shelter, then let ush work on hish farm and fed ush there
He ish the one we are yeshpecting '.
This passage is written in this way in order to show that the speaker

A. Cannot spell correctly
B. Cannot speak English correctly
C. Is a stranger
D. Is very angry

Question 818:

• JAMB 1988

This question is based on Isidore Okpewho's The Victims.
The story in the book is told from the point of view of

A. Nwabunor
B. Obanua
C. A first person narrator
D. A third person narrator

Question 819:

• JAMB 1988

This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.Miss Havisham was a nasty, vindictive recluse because she was

A. Born an eccentric
B. Cruelly ill-used by a man
C. By nature nasty and shy of company
D. Badly brought up

Question 820:

• JAMB 1988

This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.'On the rampage, Pip and off the rampage, rip; - such is Life!Joe summarized his wife's behaviour in this way after Mrs. Gergery's quarrel with

A. Pip
B. Orlick
C. Joe
D. Biddy