Literature in English past questions and Answer, 1978 JAMB, Part 4

Literature in English, JAMB 1978:

Please read questions 33 - 42 here

43.

From the West Clouds come hurrying with the wind

Turning sharply here and there

Like a plague of locust whirling

Tossing up things on its tail

Like a madman chasing nothing

 

Pregnant clouds

Ride stately on its back

Gathering to perch on hills

Like dark sinister wings

The wind whistles by

And trees bend to let us pass.

 

In the village

Screams of delighted children

Toss and turn

In the dim of whirling wind

Women – Babies clinging to their backs

Dart about in and out

Madly the wind whistles by

Whilst trees bend to let us pass

From “An African thunderstorm” by David Rubadiri

The poet varies the lengths of the lines skillfully

1. to show the speed, power and destructiveness of the storm
2. to create pleasant sounds
3. to conform to normal poetic practice
4. to create a mood of fear
5. to show his cleverness

44. Gabriel Okara’s “The call to the River Nun”, treat

1. a personal problem that is of significance to humanity in general
2. a situation that has universal significance
3. the River Nun as symbolizing decline
4. the River Nun as a ghost
5. the River Nun as a symbol of adulthood

45. “The concubine” by Elechi Amadi

The title of this novel is justified because

1. Ihuoma, the heroine, is everyone’s concubine
2. Ihuoma having once been married to Emenike has vowed never to marry again
3. everyone who married Ihuoma or expressed a wish to do so came to harm
4. Ihuoma prefers to be a mistress rather than a wife
5. being the spirit-wife of jealous Sea-King, any marriage subsequently contracted cannot be valid; she is condemned to the status of a concubine

46.

In those days

When civilization kicked us in the face

When holy water slapped our cringing brows

The vultures built in the shadow of their talons

The bloodstained monument of tutelage.

 

In those days

There was painful laughter on the metallic hell of the roads

And the monotonous rhythm of the paternoster

Drowned the howling of the plantations

Of the bitter memories of extorted kisses

Of promises broken at the point of a gun

Of foreigners who did not seem human

You who knew all the books but knew no love

Nor our hands which fertilize the womb of the earth

Hands instinct of the root with revolt

In spite of your songs of pride in the charnel houses

In spite of the desolate villages of Africa torn apart

Hope lived in us like a citadel

And from Swaziland’s mines to the sweltering sweat of Europe’s factories

Spring will be reborn under our bright steps.

“The vultures”, by David Diop

The theme of this poem is

1. vultures
2. oppression of African by European colonialists and the Africa’s hope for independence
3. Swaziland’s mines and Europe’s factories
4. bloodstained monuments
5. books without love

47. One of the following writers is better known as a playwright than a novelist.

1. C.  Achebe
2. Ekwensi
3. W. Soyinka
4. J.P. Clark
5. G. Okara

48. The plot of a novel is best described as

1. the bare outline of the story outlined in logical order
2. the story in all its details
3. the story grossly elaborated
4. a summary of the story
5. the beginning, middle and end of the story

49. A narrative poem must

1. preach a sermon
2. tell a story
3. describe natural scenery
4. argue a question
5. propound a philosophy

50. Literature is studied as a subject t school because

1. it exposes student to the realities of life
2. it provides entertainment
3. it merely gives additional work to students
4. it teaches the use of words
5. it provides means to kill time.

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Answers to Literature in English, JAMB 1978

.1. C   2. C   3. C   4. B   5. B   6. C   7. A   8. E   9. A   10. C

11. A   12. B   13. A   14. D   15. C   16. D   17. D   18. B   19. A   20. D

21. B   22. E   23. C   24. D   25. C   26. C   27. B   28. C   29. E   30. D

31. D   32. D   33. D   34. C   35. D   36. E   37. C   38. B   39. D   40. D

41. A   42. C   43. A   44. C   45. E   46. B   47. C   48. D   49. B   50. A