Textual Analysis - Jamb Literature in English Past Questions and Answers

Question 151:

• JAMB 1983

Which of the following adjectives best describes the character of Okonkwo in Things Fall Apart?

A. Gentle
B. Quick tempered
C. Considerate
D. Meek
E. Wicked

Question 152:

• JAMB 1983

Artistically, Okonkwo's seven years' exile is a device used by Achebe to

A. To introduce comic relief
B. Keep Okonkwo at a distance from the movement of the mind of Umuofia
C. Serve as a warning to other members of the Umuofia community
D. Shows that wilful crime does not pay
E. De-emphizes the role of Okonkwo in the novel

Question 153:

• JAMB 1983

'...No, my friend, he is not too young. A chick that will grow into a cock can be spotted the very day it hatches. i have done my best to make Nwoye grow into a man, but there is too much of his mother in him.'
The truth, which Okonkwo knows but cannot bring himself to state, is that Nwoye is what he is because there is in him too much of

A. His father
B. His grandfather
C. Ikemefuna
D. His grandmother
E. Ezinma

Question 154:

• JAMB 1983

Animal Farm is a fable illustrating the inevitable degeneration of revolutionary ideals. According to the novel, this degeneration occurs because

A. Social equality, the goal of such idealism, is actually undersirable
B. Revolutionary ideals are dreamed by blood-thirsty individuals
C. Man's greedy individualistic nature always subverts the realization of ideals
D. Revolutionary ideals are inimical to progress
E. Animals are the wrong characters to illustrate man's weaknesses.

Question 155:

• JAMB 1984

In Animal Farm, the commandments originally drawn up by Snowball and Napoleon sought to declare

A. The supremacy of animal over man
B. That animal shall in no way imitate human activities
C. That man is infinitely superior
D. That animal and men are equal
E. That animal are inferior to humans.