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2516

Animal Farm is a fable illustrating the inevitable degeneration of revolutionary ideals. According to the novel, this degeneration occurs because

  • A. social equality, the goal of such idealism, is actually undersirable
  • B. revolutionary ideals are dreamed by blood-thirsty individuals
  • C. man's greedy individualistic nature always subverts the realization of ideals
  • D. revolutionary ideals are inimical to progress
  • E. animals are the wrong characters to illustrate man's weaknesses.
View Answer & Discuss JAMB 1983
2517

Caesar's ghost appears to Brutus

  • A. just as he is about to surrender to Antony
  • B. as he is about to leave the forum after the assassination of Caesar
  • C. just as he is about to address his fellow citizens
  • D. after Cassius and Brutus have resolved their differences
  • E. before Brutus receives the news of his wife's death.
View Answer & Discuss JAMB 1983
2518
I am not afraid of anything ;, he told them 'I have done almost everything in this world. I have committed all crimes you can think of and been called for most of them. I have been in prison more hours than I have been out of it within the last five years. In recounting his criminal life, this speaker's tone is
  • A. repentant
  • B. boastful
  • C. regretful
  • D. subdued
  • E. remorseful
View Answer & Discuss JAMB 1984
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2519
'My room was the smallest space I'D ever been in on which a door had closed. There was a bed, built in wardrobe, chair and small table, and above in the ceiling was screwed a one-candlepower bulb it really made you feel welcome....'

The last statement in this passage is an example of
  • A. understatement
  • B. overstatement
  • C. hyperbole
  • D. sarcastic humour
  • E. poetic diction
View Answer & Discuss (3) JAMB 1984
2520

Get up you shameless hussy', she bellowed, ' you strumpet, you fallen woman! I don't know what your father and I have done to deserve such a child the events that happened later in Mission to Kala show that the speaker in the passage is

  • A. milly offended by the daughter's behaviour
  • B. truly outraged by the daughter's behaviour
  • C. merely pretending to be outraged by the daughter's behaviour
  • D. deeply offended by the daughter's behaviour
  • E. indifferent to the daughter's behaviour
View Answer & Discuss JAMB 1985
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