GENERAL LITERARY PRINCIPLES - Jamb Literature in English Past Questions and Answers

Question 201:

• JAMB 1988

THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON SELECTED POEMS FROM D.I. NWOGA'S (ED.): WEST AFRICAN VERSE.
In Leopold Senghor's 'Long, long you have held between yours hands', the poet addresses himself to

A. His beloved country for which he yearns
B. His love
C. His love interfused with yearning for his country
D. A not easily discernible subject.

Question 202:

• JAMB 1988

THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON SELECTED POEMS FROM D.I. NWOGA'S (ED.): WEST AFRICAN VERSE.
In Christopher Okigbo's 'Idoto'Idoto symbolizes

A. An object of religious worship
B. The poet's mother
C. The poet's cultural traditions
D. A river in the poet's village

Question 203:

• JAMB 1988

THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON SELECTED POEMS FROM D.I. NWOGA'S (ED.): WEST AFRICAN VERSE.
'Before you, mother Idoto, naked I stand before your watery presence a prodigal'.
In the above lines from Christopher Okadigbo's Idoto, the speaker is a 'prodigal' because he

A. Has wasted all his mother's money
B. Is money
C. Has come back to worship the godess which he has neglected
D. Has been caught discraching the shrine of the godess

Question 204:

• JAMB 1988

This question is based on selected poems from D.I. Nwoga's (ed.): West African Verse.
The title of Birago Diop's 'Vanity', is intrigue because the people described in the poem are

A. Inglorious
B. Gentle
C. Wretches
D. Humble

Question 205:

• JAMB 1988

This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.A play is called a comedy when

A. There is peaceful atmosphere and laughter in it
B. Nobody dies in it
C. There is no serious quarrel in it
D. There is a happy resolution of contradictions