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Question 11
jamb 1988

This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
A play is called a comedy when

Athere is peaceful atmosphere and laughter in it
Bnobody dies in it
Cthere is no serious quarrel in it
Dthere is a happy resolution of contradictions
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Question 12
jamb 1988

This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
'I had little objection to his being seen by Herbert or his father for both of whom I had a respect; but I had the sharpest sensitiveness as to his being seen by Drummle, whom I held in contempt. So throughout life our worst weakness and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.
Who is the person whose expected visit is being discussed here?

AAbel Magwich
BMr. Wopsle
CMr Punblechook
DJoe Gargery
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Question 13
jamb 1988

This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
In the character of Mrs. Pocket, Dickens satirizes

Acruelty to servants
Baristocratic snobbery
Cgossiping females
Dover-indulgent parents
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Question 14
jamb 1988

This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
Pip is made most conscious of his ingratitude to Joe Margery through

Athe complaints of Biddy
Bthe pretensions of Pumblechook
Chis rejection by Estella
Dthe death of his sister
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Question 15
jamb 1988

This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
'On the rampage, Pip and off the rampage, rip; - such is Life!
Joe summarized his wife's behaviour in this way after Mrs. Gergery's quarrel with

APip
BOrlick
CJoe
DBiddy
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Question 16
jamb 1988

This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
Miss Havisham was a nasty, vindictive recluse because she was

Aborn an eccentric
Bcruelly ill-used by a man
Cby nature nasty and shy of company
Dbadly brought up
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Question 17
jamb 1988

This question is based on Isidore Okpewho's The Victims.
The story in the book is told from the point of view of

ANwabunor
BObanua
Ca first person narrator
Da third person narrator
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Question 18
jamb 1988

This question is based on Isidore Okpewho's The Victims.
'It ish only becaush of your late feda that we have been sho shilent. When we came to thish town and had nowhere to shtay, hw gave ush shelter, then let ush work on hish farm and fed ush there
He ish the one we are yeshpecting '.
This passage is written in this way in order to show that the speaker

Acannot spell correctly
Bcannot speak English correctly
Cis a stranger
Dis very angry
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Question 19
jamb 1988

This question is based on Isidore Okpewho's The Victims.
One thing that Obanua found in the bar which he is unlikely to get at home is

Afood
Bjob
Csecurity
Dpower
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Question 20
jamb 1988

This question is based on Isidore Okpewho's The Victims.
The fact that the Roman Catholic priest fears and believes that the white robed figures seen in the night are spirits confirms that

Athe priest was only an impostor
Bsuperstition reigns superme in Ozala
Ctraditional religion will never succumb to Christianity in Ozala
Dthe pieces of stones these white robed figures carried away were indeed sacred
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Question 21
jamb 1988

This question is based on Isidore Okpewho's The Victims.
The real victims are

ANdidi and Ogo
BNwanze and Obanua
CUbaka and Bomboy
DNwabunor and Ogugua
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Question 22
jamb 1988

This question is based on selected poems from D.I. Nwoga's (ed.): West African Verse.
The title of Birago Diop's 'Vanity', is intrigue because the people described in the poem are

Ainglorious
Bgentle
Cwretches
Dhumble
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Question 23
jamb 1988

THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON SELECTED POEMS FROM D.I. NWOGA'S (ED.): WEST AFRICAN VERSE.


'Before you, mother Idoto, naked I stand before your watery presence a prodigal'.
In the above lines from Christopher Okadigbo's Idoto, the speaker is a 'prodigal' because he

Ahas wasted all his mother's money
Bis money
Chas come back to worship the godess which he has neglected
Dhas been caught discraching the shrine of the godess
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Question 24
jamb 1988

THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON SELECTED POEMS FROM D.I. NWOGA'S (ED.): WEST AFRICAN VERSE.


In Christopher Okigbo's 'Idoto'Idoto symbolizes

Aan object of religious worship
Bthe poet's mother
Cthe poet's cultural traditions
Da river in the poet's village
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Question 25
jamb 1988

THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON SELECTED POEMS FROM D.I. NWOGA'S (ED.): WEST AFRICAN VERSE.


In Leopold Senghor's 'Long, long you have held between yours hands', the poet addresses himself to

Ahis beloved country for which he yearns
Bhis love
Chis love interfused with yearning for his country
Da not easily discernible subject.
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Question 26
jamb 1988

THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON SELECTED POEMS FROM D.I. NWOGA'S (ED.): WEST AFRICAN VERSE.


'But what wakeful of man,
Made of the mud of this earth,
Can stare at the touch of sleep
The stable vehicle of dream
Which indeed is the look of your eyes?'
These lines from J.P. Clark's 'Olokun' suggests that Olokun eyes

Ahypnotize
Bcause sleeplessness
Cterrify
Dprevent dreams
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Question 27
jamb 1988

THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON SELECTED POEMS FROM D.I. NWOGA'S (ED.): WEST AFRICAN VERSE.


The choice of imagery in J.P Clark's 'Olukun' suggests that the poem intended to arouse

Ajealousy
Bsecular sentiments
Creligious sentiments
Derotic feelings.
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Question 28
jamb 1988

THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON SELECTED POEMS FROM D.I. NWOGA'S (ED.): WEST AFRICAN VERSE.


In David Diop''s ''The Vultures'', the colonialist are portrayed as

Ahypocritical and oppressive
Binterllecture and civilized
Chumanitarian and sympathetic
Dadventurous and daring
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Question 29
jamb 1988

THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON SELECTED POEMS FROM D.I. NWOGA'S (ED.): WEST AFRICAN VERSE.


In Lenrie Peter's 'We Have Come Home', the return of the successful scholar is not fulfilling because

Athe acievement sems out of touchwith his society back home
Bthe tropical atmosphere is full of happiness
Cthe dispensation he meets provides mixed satisfaction
Dhe has become indifferent to his own society.
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Question 30
jamb 1988

THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON SELECTED POEMS FROM D.I. NWOGA'S (ED.): WEST AFRICAN VERSE.

'Night, and Abiku sucks the oil
From lamps'.

AAbiku drinks oil
BFor Abiku, oil is water
Cwhile other babies suck the breast, Abiku sucks oil
DThe lamp is kept burning all night on account of Abiku
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