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Literature in English 1997 JAMB Past Questions

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This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et al (eds.): New poetry from Africa, Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa, K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.
What notion dominates Oswald Mtshali's 'The washerwoman's Prayer'?

  • A. Piety
  • B. Ageing
  • C. Indifference
  • D. Inequality
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This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et al (eds.): New poetry from Africa, Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa, K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.
'BEHOLD her, single in the field,
You solitary Highland Lass!
Reaping and singing by herself;...
O listen! for the Vale profound
Is overflowing with the sound.'
The lines above from William Wordsworth's 'The Solitary Reaper' constitute

  • A. a soliloguy
  • B. an aside
  • C. an apostrophe
  • D. an interior monologue
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This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et al (eds.): New poetry from Africa, Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa, K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.
In my last Duchess', the poet complains about the Duchess'

  • A. indiscriminate love and admiration
  • B. unrestrained blushing
  • C. officious fool
  • D. intermitent smiles
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This question is based on Zaynab Alkali's The Stillborn.
The two major pervasive sources of social problems in the community of the stillborn are

  • A. ignorance and poverty
  • B. modrnization and foreign culture
  • C. Christianity and the quest for wealth
  • D. witchcraft and Christianity
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This question is based on Zaynab Alkali's The Stillborn.
The dialogue at the end of the novel reveals

  • A. Li's resolve to sustain her marriage
  • B. Li's tragic end
  • C. Awa's role as the man of the house
  • D. the cycle of life in Li's family
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