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Literature in English 1993 JAMB Past Questions

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This question is based on William Shakespeare's Macbeth.
It is dramatic irony that the 'castle which has a gentle air' happens to be the

  • A. orchard of Macbeth
  • B. witches' enclave
  • C. forest of Dunsinane
  • D. death-place of King Duncan
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This question is based on William Shakespeare's Macbeth.
'The Prince of Cumberland!- That is a step
On which I must fall down, or else o' erleap,
For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires!
Let not light see my black and deep desires;...
Macbeth in this soliloquy refers to his secret longing to become the

  • A. King of Scotland
  • B. Prince of Cumberland
  • C. Thane of Cawdor
  • D. Thane of Glamis
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This question is based on William Shakespeare's Macbeth.
'Accursed be that tongue that tells me so,
For it hath cowed my better part of man;
And be these juggling fiends no more believed,...
That keep the word of promise to our ear,
And break it to our hope...'
The speech above was made when

  • A. Macduff confronted Macbeth for the final battle
  • B. Macbeth realized the truth of the witches prediction
  • C. Duncan heard that Malcolm and Macduff had descended on Dunsinane to attack Macbeth
  • D. Macbeth heard that his wife had been killed
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This question is based on William Shakespeare's Macbeth.
'...Nay, had I power, I should
Pour the sweet milk of concord into hell,
Uproar the universal peace, confound
All unity on earth .'
The true intention of the speaker is to

  • A. assess the integrity of the addressee
  • B. get power and authority at all cost
  • C. be callous and destructive
  • D. stir commotion in the world
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This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.) Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.
'There where the need for good and ''the doing good'' conflict.'
In these two lines from Lenrie Peters' The Fence', the speaker says that

  • A. ''doing good'' is the opposite of the need for good
  • B. he cannot do good deeds
  • C. action often conflicts with knowledge
  • D. he lies on the fence between good and evil
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