JAMB Literature in English 1979 Past Questions

In 'Tell Freedom' injustice is symbolized by

Which of these secondary characters stands out from the others in the development of the action in Ozidi?

Mr Johnson always buys beautiful things for his wife Bamu because

The dominant feeling in Leopold Sedar Senghor's 'In Memoriam' is

'Exposition' in a play means

A novel can be described as

A good plot must posses

Pick out the odd one

Events in The Concubine are dominated by

In 'Come Away My Love' Kariuki deals with the problems of

Although the following statement is not a direct quotation from any books,it serves as as an aid to identifying characters that appear in the works.Read it carefully and say which character is likely to make it: 'How could i have succumbed to the pressures of the corrupt society?I thought i would be a successful social reformer but now i am as bad as those i criticize'

The difference between tragedy and comedy is

A play is drama because

The central theme of Shakespeare's As You Like It is

Which of the following statements is true of Shakespeare's Macbeth

One of the following is a mark of good poetry

In Night of Seine,the word'dark' in 'listen to our dark blood beat' is used

'Stream-side Exchange' primarily shows J.P Clark's interest in

In 'The Call of the River Nun','O'incomprehensible God!' expresses the poet's

Kalu Uka's 'Earth to Earth' is about one of the following

Dennis Brutus' 'A Troubadour I Traverse' is on the following

In 'The Vultures' the vultures are

In 'The Duel' the line 'And the swords clicked and scrapped,and the onsets sped' indicates

'The Sacrilege' ends on a note of the complexity of

'The Choir master's Burial' shows man

In 'Wild Grapes' the narrator says 'You see me celebrate two birthdays,And give myself out as two different ages because

'Strange Meeting' reveals the absurdity of

Romeo and Juliet
"O'Romeo,Romeo!Wherefore art thou Romeo?
Deny thy father and refuse thy father and refuse thy name"
Juliet makes this statement because

A Raisin' in the Sun
That's it.There you are.Man say to his woman got me a dream.His woman got me a dream.His woman say:I got to take hold of this here world,baby!And a woman will say:Eat your eggs and go to work....
'a dream' in this speech refers to

I lingered over the choice
But in the darkness of my doubts
You lifted the lamp of love
And i saw in your face
The road that i should take
In 'The Mesh' the poet 'lingered over the choice' because

The Concubine
'Ihuoma,my child' Wigwe began at last,'really i ought to have come here with more people,but i have avoided formalities because i want to spare myself any embarrassment.Formalities will come later if all goes well'.
Wigwe has come to Ihuoma in order to

In 'The Executioner's Dream',the first line 'I dream I saw an eye,a pretty eye' is

In Birago Diop's 'Vanity',these two lines 'Sad complaining voices of beggars
Who indeed will hear them without laughter?'contain

In 'Telephone Conversation', the tone of the question 'You mean-like plain or milk chocolate? is

In 'Night',Soyinka describes night as

Modern African Stories
In Alex la Guma's A Matter of Taste, it is a matter of taste to eat exactly what you want because

She rose up.She walked up to the table.She stirred up the food once more,and lifted it up from the hot plate.She picked up the second pan and placed it on the red coils.From underneath,in the cardboard box,she collected two enamel plates green with a red band.she wiped them with a white napkin hanging on the line over the bed.she brought out two forks and two spoons.
By using details, the author of the above passage makes the scene

The Adventure of Tom Sawyer depicts Tom's

In Kossoh Town Boy,the hero presents his father as

Kontiki Expedition demonstrates human

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

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

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

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

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

Kenneth Kaunda's Zambia Shall Be Free is a non-fictional work because

The woods decay,the woods decay and fall,
The vapors weep their burden to the ground,
Man comes and fills the field and lies beneath,
And after many a summer dies the swan.
The theme of these lines is

A woman cried out.The policeman who was edging nearer had been joined by another.Both were edging nearer.Carefully and slowly.But it was not that that had made the woman cry out.She had seen one of the men's hand slip.He was now holding on by one hand only.The crowd was tense.This was the Kill.Automatically they moved forward in a body.The doctor was in the lead.
The author of this passage creates in the reader

The most quarrelsome character in Romeo and Juliet is

Point out the odd item in this list