LITERARY APPRECIATION - Jamb Literature in English Past Questions and Answers

Question 81:

• JAMB 1982

I have thee not yet I see thee still.
Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible
To feeling, as to sight'
'fatal vision' in the second line is a reference to

A. The ghost of Banquo
B. The ghost of Duncan
C. One of the three witches
D. An imaginary dagger
E. King Duncan's crown

Question 82:

• JAMB 1982

This is my letter to the world
That never wrote to me
The simple news that Nature told
With tender majesty
Her message is committed
To hands I cannot see;
For love of her, sweet countrymen
Judge tenderly of me'
To whom does 'her' in line 5 refer?

A. Majesty
B. World
C. Tender
D. Nature
E. The poet's sister

Question 83:

• JAMB 1982

Girls dance and sing. Men clap .The walls sing and press inward. They press the men and girls, they press inward. They press the men and girls they press John towards a centre of physical ecstasy .
Tom whom does 'they refer?

A. Men
B. Girls
C. Men and Girls
D. The walls
E. John and the girls

Question 84:

• JAMB 1983

You would often hear on hen remark to another,
Under the guidance of our leader, Comrade Napoleon, i have laid five eggs in six days'. or two cows, enjoying a drink at the pool, would exclaim,
'Thanks to the leadership of Comrade Napoleon, how excellent this water taste!'
It is obvious from this passage that the narrator

A. Agrees with the animals good opinion of Napoleon
B. Thinks the hen are correct while the cows are wrong
C. Agrees with the cows and dissagree with the hens
D. Feels it is not possible to know the truth
E. Its being ironic since neither the cows nor the hens are correct

Question 85:

• JAMB 1983

The title of Achebe Things Fall Apart is taken from poem written by

A. T.S Eliot
B. William Shakespeare
C. William Wordsworth
D. Wole Soyinka
E. W.B Yeats.