LITERARY APPRECIATION - Jamb Literature in English Past Questions and Answers

Question 186:

• JAMB 1994

UZAZAKPO:
In my madness, I served Oba Adolo, your
father. That same madness has helped me
keep my body in this palace as jester under
your full moon. If you will listen to me and my
madness, I will tell you frankly that the way you
talked to the chiefs was not the right way
The tone of the above statement is

A. Ironic
B. Parabolic
C. Humorous
D. Satiric

Question 187:

• JAMB 1994

UZAZAKPO:
In my madness, I served Oba Adolo, your
father. That same madness has helped me
keep my body in this palace as jester under
your full moon. If you will listen to me and my
madness, I will tell you frankly that the way you
talked to the chiefs was not the right way'
The play above is basically a

A. Tragi-comedy
B. Historical tragedy
C. Dramatic tragedy
D. Documentary

Question 188:

• JAMB 1994

"If
a provoked houseboy
cannot match his
wicked master
strength with strength,
he maims the master's favorite
goat!"
Obaruduagbon employs this proverb to explain why

A. The Oba should be placated
B. He and Esasoyen were arrested
C. Uwangue Egiebo was murdered
D. He was rude to the Oba

Question 189:

• JAMB 1994

"Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes,you
can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide
going out revealing whatever has been thrown away
and sunk; broken bottles, old gloves,rusting
pop-cans, nibbled fish bodies, bones.The ruin
you've made."
Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye
The passage above claims that when "love recedes", you

A. Clean up broken bottles
B. Come to self-knowledge
C. Realize your vision is blurred
D. Surrender to your weakness

Question 190:

• JAMB 1994

"But everything does have a beginning, and so if I
am to tell this story I must begin. Yet i do not know
the starting point of my tale."
Based on Nawal El Saadaw's The Circling Song,the speaker of the above statement is the

A. First person narrator
B. Protagonist
C. Antagonist
D. Omniscient narrator