Textual Analysis - Jamb Literature in English Past Questions and Answers

Question 11:

• JAMB 2018

The question is based on William’s Shakespeare’s OTHELLO

"Soft you; a word or two before you go. I have done the state some service and they knew’ No more of

A. Travelling
B. Sick
C. Dying
D. Eloping

Question 12:

• JAMB 2018

The question is based on William’s Shakespeare's OTHELLO


"O heaven; How got she out?
O treason of the blood!
Father; from hence trust not your daughters' minds
By what you see them act. Is there not charms
By which the property of youth and maid-hood
May be abused?


The speaker of the excerpt above is________

A. Brabantio
B. Othello
C. Gratiano
D. Roderigo

Question 13:

• JAMB 2018

The question is based on J.P Clark's WIVES REVOLT.


In the play. the central idea is that gender equity_______?

A. Both undesirable and unattainable
B. Desirable and unattainable
C. Attainable and desirable
D. Obnoxious and desirable

Question 14:

• JAMB 2018

The question is based on J.P Clark's WIVES REVOLT.

In their fight, the women settle at Iyara in order to_______?

A. Cure cross-piece
B. Hurt their husbands
C. Forestall reconciliation
D. Seeks peace

Question 15:

• JAMB 2018

The question is based on J.P Clark's WIVES REVOLT.


"Great Orators in the assembly, and poor nannies at home." Those being ridiculed here are the_________?

A. Husbands
B. Old Women
C. Wives
D. Spinsters