Textual Analysis - Jamb Literature in English Past Questions and Answers

Question 221:

• JAMB 1991

This question is based on Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God
'The crisis over the New Yam Feast arose because

A. Ezeulu refused to eat the sacred yams at the appropriate time
B. The harvest season came too early
C. The Christians in Umuaro diverted their own yams to their church
D. Ezeulu's absence from Umuaro had prevented him from eating the sacred yams at the right time

Question 222:

• JAMB 1991

This question is based on Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God
''....that no man however great was greater than his people; that no one ever won judgement against his clan.''
Achebe's conclusion was that

A. The individual should submit his will to thatof the clan
B. Very few people have the ability to dictate to their clan
C. A man should impose his judgement on the clan if he is strong enough to do so
D. The clan generally ensures that the individual is reduced to weakness

Question 223:

• JAMB 1991

This question is based on Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter
'....One is a mother to shield when lightning streaks the night, when thunder shakes the earth, when mud bogs knock one down. One is a mother in order to love without beginning or end.'
On what occasion do these lines occur in the novel?

A. At the burial ceremony of Ramatoulaye's husband
B. After the confession of Ramatoulaye's daughter, that she was pregnant
C. When Ramatoulaye was learning to drive the Flat 125
D. When Ramatoulaye saw her mother sick in bed

Question 224:

• JAMB 1991

This question is based on Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter
'You forget that I have a heart, a mind, that I am not an object to be passed from hand to hand.
You don't know what marriage means to me....'These words by Ramatoulaye are addressed to

A. Mawdo
B. Her mother-in-law
C. Daouda Dieng
D. Tamsir

Question 225:

• JAMB 1991

This question is based on Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter
''A wife must understand once and for all, and must forgive; she must not worry herself about 'betrayals of the flesh. The important thing is what there is in the heart.''
These words are spoken by

A. Tamsir in breaking the news of Modou's second marriage to Ramatoulaye
B. Modou in support of his relationship with Binetou
C. Aunty Nabou in trying to convince Mawdo to marry her niece
D. Mawdo Ba to justify his marrying Nabou out of a sense of duty