Textual Analysis - Jamb Literature in English Past Questions and Answers

Question 96:

• JAMB 1980

The night has been unruly. Where we lay. Our chimneys were blown down; and as they say lamentings heard i'th'air; strange screams of death And prophesying with accents terrible. Of dire combustion and confessed events. New hatch'd to the woeful time. The obscure bird Clamour'd the livelong night: some say the earth was feverous and did shake. This is the night .

A. When Banquo was murdered
B. Before macbeth was killed
C. When the duncan and his men were fighting the enemy
D. When macbeth went to see the witches
E. When duncan was murdered.

Question 97:

• JAMB 1980

Kofi had to live under a master and go to school in keta because

A. His mothr lived in keta
B. His father was transfer ti abor
C. He lost his school fees to gamblers
D. His father's school was a junior school
E. His father wanted to punish him.

Question 98:

• JAMB 1980

In the novel The Narrow Parth because Kofi's father was a headmaster, kofi

A. Wore shoe to school
B. Started school early
C. Went to school when he liked
D. Wasn rude to his teachers
E. Was very popular with the school children

Question 99:

• JAMB 1980

Ananse knew who loved his daughter most through

A. The quality of gifts they sent to him
B. The eagerness which each showed to marry her
C. Thier reactions to the news of Anansewa's death
D. The words of thier messengers
E. The letters the chief wrote to them.

Question 100:

• JAMB 1980

Orlando addressed the banished duke and his men roughly because

A. He was hungry
B. He was greedy
C. He was afraid
D. He thought they were wild
E. They refuse to give him food.