PROSE - Jamb Literature in English Past Questions and Answers

Question 201:

• JAMB 1987

Pip's Flippant remarks concerning the tombstones in the opening chapter of Great Expectations indicate

A. His longing for death
B. The child's inability to understand
C. His yearning for his parents
D. His fascination for inscriptions on stonework.

Question 202:

• JAMB 1988

This question is based on Isidore Okpewho's The Victims.
The real victims are

A. Ndidi and Ogo
B. Nwanze and Obanua
C. Ubaka and Bomboy
D. Nwabunor and Ogugua

Question 203:

• JAMB 1988

This question is based on Isidore Okpewho's The Victims.
The fact that the Roman Catholic priest fears and believes that the white robed figures seen in the night are spirits confirms that

A. The priest was only an impostor
B. Superstition reigns superme in Ozala
C. Traditional religion will never succumb to Christianity in Ozala
D. The pieces of stones these white robed figures carried away were indeed sacred

Question 204:

• JAMB 1988

This question is based on Isidore Okpewho's The Victims.
One thing that Obanua found in the bar which he is unlikely to get at home is

A. Food
B. Job
C. Security
D. Power

Question 205:

• JAMB 1988

This question is based on Isidore Okpewho's The Victims.
'It ish only becaush of your late feda that we have been sho shilent. When we came to thish town and had nowhere to shtay, hw gave ush shelter, then let ush work on hish farm and fed ush there
He ish the one we are yeshpecting '.
This passage is written in this way in order to show that the speaker

A. Cannot spell correctly
B. Cannot speak English correctly
C. Is a stranger
D. Is very angry