Textual Analysis - Jamb Literature in English Past Questions and Answers

Question 216:

• JAMB 1990

This question is based on Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter
'Friendship has splendours that love knows not.
It grows stronger when crossed, whereas obstacles kill love. Friendship resists time, which wearies and severs couples. It has heights unknown to love'.
The friendship referred to in these lines is that between

A. Binetou and Modou Fall
B. Ramatoulaye and Daouda Dieng
C. Modou Faill and Mawdo Ba
D. Aissatou and Ramatoulaye

Question 217:

• JAMB 1990

This question is based on Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter
'... In spite of your voice and your gift of oratory, you preferred obscure work, less well paid but constructive for your country,...
This description refers to

A. Modou Fall
B. Mawdo Ba
C. Daouda Dieng
D. Aissatou

Question 218:

• JAMB 1991

This question is based on Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God
'Thereafter, any yam harvest in the fields was harvested in the name of the son'
The 'son' referred to in the above quotation is

A. Ezeulu's dead son, Obika
B. Ezeulu's Christian son, Oduche
C. Mr. Good Country's son
D. Jesus Christ

Question 219:

• JAMB 1991

This question is based on Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God
The statement 'the new religion was like a leper' means that

A. The new religion, if welcomed, will overshadow the traditional religions
B. The Europeans who brought the new religion were lepers
C. All those who join the new religion would become lepers
D. Religion invites diseases

Question 220:

• JAMB 1991

This question is based on Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God
''' It is not bravery for a man to beat his wife.
I know a man and his wife must quarrel; there is no abomination in that... No, you may quarrel; but let it not end in fighting...''
These words concern

A. Obika and his mother
B. Obika and Okuata
C. Akueke and her husband
D. All the young men in the village