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Question 21

jamb 1990

This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I. Nwoga (ed.) West African Verse.
'...Tide and market come and go
And so shall your mother.'
The above lines from J.P. Clark's 'Streamside
Exchange' depict the

Avariation of season

Bchanging periods of marketing

Cconstancy of nature

Dimportance of living

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Question 22

jamb 1990

This question is based on George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man .
The way Louka carries out her duties as a maid at the Petkoff's household can best be described as

Aarrogant and insolent

Bopportunistic and self-centered

Chaughty and presumptuous

Dbold and self-assured

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Question 23

jamb 1990

This question is based on George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man .
'He did it like an operatic tenor. A regular handsome fellow, with flashing eyes and lovely moustache, shouting his war-cry and charging like Don Quixote at the windmills...'
This account of an important battle in the play carries a tone of

Aadmiration

Bmockery

Cbitterness

Dalarm

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Question 24

jamb 1990

This question is based on George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man .
In what particular way did Raina demonstrate that she had fallen in love with Captain Bluntschli by the end of their first meeting?

ABy giving him chocolate creams which he preferred to bullets

BBy introducing him to hermother

CBy giving him her portrait with an inscription

DBy saving his life from the Serbian soldiers

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Question 25

jamb 1990

This question is based on George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man .
Petkoff [grinning] 'Sergius: tell Catherine that queer story his friend told us about how he escaped after Slivnitza. You remember.
About his being hid by two women'
Since the phrase 'two women in the above extract refers to Petkoff's own daughter and wife, his grinning is a case of

Asarcasm

Bridicule

Cirony

Dsuspense

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Question 26

jamb 1990

This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel.
'...He risked his life that you may boast
A warrior-hunter for your lord...But you-
You sell him to the rhyming rabble
Gloating in your disloyalty...
In these lines the 'rhyming rabble' refers to

Aclowns who wait on the Bale

Bchildren in Lakunle's school

Cprofessional singers

Dthe mummers who dance in mockery of the Bale's rumoured impotence

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Question 27

jamb 1990

This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel.
'...But there have been
No new reads cut by his servants
No new cots woven..'
It can be inferred from the above lines that

Athere has been no harvest in the village

Bthe Bale's sevants are lazy

Cno children have been born recently

Dthe Bale's servants are revolting

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Question 28

jamb 1990

This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel.
The central theme of the play is the

Aills of modern days

Bclash between tradition and modernity

Cproblem of courtship

Dconflict between the old and the young

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Question 29

jamb 1990

This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel.
...I am the twinkle of a Jewel
But he is the hind-quarters of a lion!...'
These lines suggest that

ASidi is superior to the Bale

BSidi is weaker than the Bale

CSidi is clever than the Bale

Dthe Bale is violent

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Question 30

jamb 1990

This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel.
Lakunel is presented as a

Afine specimen of an education young man

Btruly progressive and enlightened youth

Cstrong defender of the people's tradition

Dcaricature of a modern educated man

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