PROSE - Jamb Literature in English Past Questions and Answers

Question 166:

• 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 167:

• 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.

Question 168:

• JAMB 1984

In Animal Farm, the song
'Beasts of England, beast of Ireland,
Beasts of every land and clime,
Hearken to my joyful tidings
Of the golden future time.
was first sung by

A. Snowball
B. Squealer
C. Old Major
D. Napoleon
E. Bluebell

Question 169:

• JAMB 1984

Since George Orwell was in fact writing about men while pretending to be writing about animals, his novel, Animal Farm can be classified as

A. A realistic novel
B. An allegorical novel
C. A naturalistic novel
D. A novel of adventure
E. A sentimental novel

Question 170:

• JAMB 1984

'All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than the others.
In the content of Animal Farm, this statement means that equality

A. Is possible only under socialism
B. Is possible only under capitalism
C. Is not desirable
D. Was possible only in the past
E. Is desirable but impossible.