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Question 51
jamb 2025

This question is based on Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights

Take my colt, gipsy, then! said young Earnshaw...and wheedle my father out of all he has

The statement  above exemplifies

Apremonition
Bpoint of view
Cflashack
Depistolary
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Question 52
jamb 2025

Beauty in Donne's "The Good Morrow" represents the poet's persona's

Afriend
Blover
Cniece
Dmother
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Question 53
jamb 2025

The experience of the persona in Eliot's "The Journey of the Magi" is

Achallenging but fulfilling
Brough and hopeless
Csmooth and exciting
Dtortuous and frustrating
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Question 54
jamb 2025

The subject matter of Angelou's "Caged Bird" is

Athe abolition of slavery and the freedom of caged people
Bthe limitation of racially discriminated African Americans
Csegregation and racial discrimination
Dthe colonial invasion and slave trade
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Question 55
jamb 2025

This question is based on Literary Appreciation

A thousand explosions in the belly of the earth
Bleeding rigs, bursting pipes
The oil flows
From the earth's sickbed
Because
The oil only flows
When the earth bleeds

The subject matter of the excerpt above is

Adespoliation
Bcontestation
Cunification
Drevolution
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Question 56
jamb 2025

This question is based on John Osborne's Look Back in Anger.

Jimmy's feeling about Alison's upper-class status is that of

Aindifference
Badoration
Cresentment
Dadmiration
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Question 57
jamb 2025

This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel.

The chief of Ilujinle village is

ALakunle
BBaroka
CSadiku
DSidi
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Question 58
jamb 2025

This question is based on Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights.

The overriding depiction of mystery and terror in the novel accounts for its classification as a 

Aneo-classical novel
Bgothic novel
Csatiric fiction
Dscience fiction
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Question 59
jamb 2024

This question is based on General Literary Principles.

The events that make up the story is the 

Aplot
Bsetting
Catmosphere
Dtheme
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Question 60
jamb 2024

This question is based on General Literary Principles.

A poem of eight rhyming lines is

Aquatrain
Boctave
Csonnet
Dlimerick
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Question 61
jamb 2024

A long narrative poem that relates heroic exploits is 

Apanegyric
Blyric
Cballad
Depic
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Question 62
jamb 2024

This question is based on general literary principles

The leading character in a literary work is the  

Aprotagonist
Bantagonist
Cvillain
Danti-hero
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Question 63
jamb 2024

This question is based on General Literary Principles.

The collection of images within a literary work is referred to as 

Aimagery
Bimages
Csymbolism
Dcaesura
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Question 64
jamb 2024

This question is based on Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights.

Heathcliff considered himself the second half of 

ANelly Dean
BIsabella Linton
CHindley Earnshaw
DCatherine Earnshaw
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Question 65
jamb 2024

This question is based on Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights

The novel can be described as a 

ARenaissance prose
BVictorian novel
CFrench fiction
DEnglish autobiography
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Question 66
jamb 2024

This question is based on Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights

The setting of the novel is

AMid 16th century
BMid 17th century
CMid 18th century
DMid 19th century
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Question 67
jamb 2024

The question is based on Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights

The structure of the novel is based on two major conflicts of 

Alove
Bpassion
Cemotion
Dromance
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Question 68
jamb 2024

This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's Second Class Citizen

The main challenge Adah encounters in England is

Abeing a woman
Bfinancial limitations
Cbeing half literate
Dbeing a black person
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Question 69
jamb 2024

This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's Second Class Citizen.

Adah's disappointment is in the overwhelming 

Afreedom for the blacks
Breception of the blacks
Crecognition given the blacks
Ddiscrimination against the blacks
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Question 70
jamb 2024

This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's Second Class Citizen

Adah is so obsessed with the sleek woman at the hospital because the woman

Ahas a doting husband
Bhas a high paying job
Cgives birth to twins
Dlives in a mansion
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