Jamb Literature in English Past Questions and Answers

Question 386:

• JAMB 1979

Mtchali's 'Nightfall in Soweto'is about one of the following

A. Moonlight play at night
B. Disease that attacks the body
C. A man fighting against a dangerous animal
D. An animal attacking a helpless man
E. A wicked man opressing a helpless man

Question 387:

• JAMB 1979

We returned to our places,these kingdoms ,
But no longer at ease here,in the old dispensation,
With an alien people clutching their goods.
I should be glad of another death.
The author of these lines is

A. W.B. Yeats
B. Chinua Achebe
C. Thomas Hardy
D. T.S. Elliot
E. E.G. Okara

Question 388:

• JAMB 1979

Peter Abraham's Mine Boy is about one of the following

A. Opression through labour
B. The dignity of labour
C. Happy childhood
D. Conflict of the culture
E. None of the above

Question 389:

• JAMB 1979

In a 'Portrait', a poet writes:
At mankind's feast,i take my place
In solemn,sanctimonious state,
And have the air of saying grace
While i defile the dinner plate.
The tone of this passage may be described as

A. Solemn
B. Self-mocking
C. Dead earnest
D. Serious
E. Angry

Question 390:

• JAMB 1979

Our attitude to the hero of George Elliot's Sill Marner is one of

A. Contempt
B. Fear
C. Sympathy
D. Hatred
E. None of the above