POETRY - Jamb Literature in English Past Questions and Answers

Question 131:

• JAMB 1982

Gray's 'Elegy Written in a country churchyard' can be seen as

A. Total condemnation of human life
B. Lament for the death of the great and powerful
C. An attack on social inequality
D. A criticism of the poor and the unambitious
E. A recognition of the poor and simple life.

Question 132:

• JAMB 1982

what is the subject of Kalu Uka's 'Earth to Earth?

A. The size of the universe
B. The immensity of Nature
C. Death
D. Growth
E. A long journey

Question 133:

• JAMB 1982

In Oswald Mtshali's 'nightfall in Soweto', Night represents

A. The oppression of whites by the Africans
B. White people's fear by the Africans
C. The black victimization of white people
D. The oppression of the Africans by the white people
E. The rebelion of the white people

Question 134:

• JAMB 1982

Keats' 'Ode to a Nightingale' is a romantic poem because

A. It depends a great deal on the poet's spontaneous response to beauty
B. It is a poem about love
C. Nightingale symbolizes love
D. It was addressed to one of Keats' friends called Nightingale
E. Keats first described the poem as a romantic poem.

Question 135:

• JAMB 1982

In Mine Boy Peter Abraham's is of the view that in South Africa

A. A black and white should live and develop separately
B. Racial harmony is desirable and possible
C. Black should never cooperate with white
D. Racial harmony is merewishful thinking
E. The conflict between black and white can never end.