Jamb Literature in English Past Questions and Answers

Question 1671:

• JAMB 2006

This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's Fragments.
Boateng describes the writers' studio as a place where

A. Writers have been sold
B. Writers work hard at their writings
C. People discuss real writing
D. Writing materials are sold

Question 1672:

• JAMB 2006

This question is based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet.
The king who is poisoned in the Garden in the play-within-the-play is

A. Gozango
B. Negtine
C. Bernardo
D. Hamlet

Question 1673:

• JAMB 2006

This question is based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet.
Ghost serves to

A. Accelerate dramatic conflict
B. Intensify dramatic conflict
C. Initiate dramatic conflict
D. Complicate dramatic conflict

Question 1674:

• JAMB 2006

This question is based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet.'But, howsoever thou pursuest this act,
Taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive Against thy mother....'
The ghost exhorts young Hamlet not to kill his mother because

A. His wife is bewitched into falling for Claudius' seduction
B. The ghost wishes her to be left to the torment of her conscience
C. The ghost still loves his wife even in death
D. The young Hamlet will be guilty of matricide

Question 1675:

• JAMB 2006

This question is based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet.
The king's clown whose skull is exhumed by Gravedigger is

A. Rosencrantz
B. Yorick
C. Sexton
D. Fortinbras