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Question 481

jamb 2019

Alice, a small fragile-looking Ugandan mother, is dying of AIDS. She lives with her son and daughter in a tin-roofed shack on the .....1... of Kampala.

AOutskirts

BSuburbs

CInterior

DOutside

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Question 482

jamb 2019

All the following are roles of the media but?

AEntertainment

BSensitization

CInformation

DMoralization

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Question 483

jamb 2019

One major source of worry about the mass media is from?

ABroadcasting

BAdvertisement

CPolitical rallies

DNews casting

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Question 484

jamb 2019

One of the following is NOT true in the passage

AMass communication don't talk

BMass communication don't personalize discourse

CMass media determine what the public gets to know

DAll of the above

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Question 485

jamb 2019

The means of mass media can be summarized into:

ARadio, Television and Newspaper

BNewspaper,books and journals

CPrint and Electronic

DPrint, Electronic and Advertisement

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Question 486

jamb 2019

A suitable title for the above passage can be:

AMass communication

BThe mass media and the people

CThe purpose of mass media

DThe good and the bad side of the media

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Question 487

jamb 2019

Choose the word with the same vowel sound as the one in bracket
Band[a]ge

Akite

Bsays

Ccacophony

Dcage

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Question 488

jamb 2019

Choose the word with the same vowel sound as the one in bracket

Orthop[ae]dic

Aelite

Bimpasse

Ccacophony

Dsharp

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Question 489

jamb 2019

Choose the one nearest in meaning to the word(s) in bracket.

This type of response is [typical] of a lazy teacher

Asymptomatic

Bcharacteristics

Cuniversal

Dincontestable

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Question 490

jamb 2019

Choose the one nearest in meaning to the word(s) in bracket

There are still [virtuous] women in our society today

Adevilish

Bclever

Cintelligent

Dupright

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Question 491

jamb 2019

Choose the word that has the same rhyme

Thyme

Aclimb

Bbind

Ctime

Dlime

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Question 492

jamb 2019

His many years of success in legal practice, .............. , didn't come out without challenges

Abut

Bin spite of all

Cindeed

DHowever

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Question 493

jamb 2019

Choose the one nearest in meaning to the word(s) in bracket

Justice is difficult to enforce because people are unwilling to accept any loss of [sovereignty]

Apositing

Bleadership

Cautonomy

Dkingdom

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Question 494

jamb 2019

Choose the one nearest in meaning to the word(s) in bracket

Some men will continue to cause offences until they are given [a taste of their own medicine]

Aplacated

Brevenged on

Ccured

Drecompensed for

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Question 495

jamb 2019

Choose the one nearest in meaning to the word(s) in bracket

Okibe was rusticated for his [derogatory] remark about the principal

Acomplimentary

Bunwarranted

Clack luster

Dunsavoury

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Question 496

jamb 2019

Who is the protagonist in the book sweet sixteen?

AAliya

BMr. Bello

CBobo

DTokunbo

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Question 497

jamb 2019

One of Mr. Bello's friend referred to in the book is

AMr. Shittu

BThe Principal

CDr. Folarin

DMrs. Rebeccah

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Question 498

jamb 2019

At some point in the book, why doesn't Aliya want to be the grown-up girl she always want to be anymore?

Ashe thinks her father is dead

Bshe doen't feel anything when she is 16

Cshe likes to remain a child

Dshe loves food

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Question 499

jamb 2019

In Bolaji Abdullahi's 'Sweet Sixteen', Kahlil Gibran is a

Apoet

Bsongwriter

Cdramatist

Dmusician

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Question 500

jamb 2019

How does Aliya show stereotype?

Ashe dislikes Rebecca and Bunmi

Bshe says Christians think their religion is better than Islamic religion

Cshe hates her chemistry teacher

Dshe feels the other girls in her class are dumb

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