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Question 611
jamb 2002

This question is based on George Orwell's Animal Farm.
The message of the novel is that

Acapitalism is as bad as communism
Bhumanism isis better than aniamalism
Ccommunism is better than capitalism
Dno society exists where everyon is equal
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Question 612
jamb 2002
This question is based on George Orwell's Animal Farm.
The execution of some of the animals on the orders Napoleon is to
Aprevent Snowball from coming back to the farm
Bmake the pigs constitute themselves into a special class
Cachieve the pigs' socialist goals without further delay
Dpave way for Napoleon to become an absolute ruler
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Question 613
jamb 2002

This question is based on George Orwell's Animal Farm.
Old Major ends his speech to the animals with a song in order to

Aspur them to action
Bentertain them
Cdisplay his ability to sing
Dteach them how to sing an anthem
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Question 614
jamb 2002

This question is based on Abubakar Gimba's Witnesses to Tears
The witnesses to the tears in the novel are

ASaahir and Lahab
BLahab and Hussaina
CLahab and Sagiir
DAl-Amin and Hussaina
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Question 615
jamb 2002

This question is based on Abubakar Gimba's Witnesses to Tears
The novel is largely set in

AFuta Toro
BSabonville city
CAlligator city
DNuclear city
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Question 616
jamb 2002

This question is based on Abubakar Gimba's Witnesses to Tears
In the novel, Al-Amin's initial reservations about his daughter's engagement to Lahab are informed by

Aa premonition of his death
BLahab's doubtful morality
CHussaina's immaturity
Dhis fear of loneliness
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Question 617
jamb 2002

This question is based on selected Poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New poetry from African; Syinka, W. (ed.): poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.): A Selection of African poetry; Umukoro, M. et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature- in - English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D.I. (ed.): West African Verse.
Arthur Nortje's 'Nightfall' despicts

Athe yearning for self-fulfilment in life
Bthe horrors of nightfall
Cthe yearning for love
Danxiety at nightfall
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Question 618
jamb 2002

This question is based on selected Poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New poetry from African; Syinka, W. (ed.): poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.): A Selection of African poetry; Umukoro, M. et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature- in - English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D.I. (ed.): West African Verse.
'I said I had the tree. It wasn't true. The opposite was true. The tree had me'.
from Robert Frosts ' Wild Grapes' is

Athe adventures of some wild children in the forest
Bthe dramatic suspension of a child on a tree
Cthe successful climbing of an adventurous boy
Dreminiscence of man's transcendentalism
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Question 619
jamb 2002

This question is based on selected Poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New poetry from African; Syinka, W. (ed.): poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.): A Selection of African poetry; Umukoro, M. et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature- in - English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D.I. (ed.): West African Verse.
The dominant imagery in Kofi Awoonor's 'The Cathedral' is

Aolfactory
Bauditory
Ctactile
Dvisual
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Question 620
jamb 2002

This question is based on selected Poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New poetry from African; Syinka, W. (ed.): poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.): A Selection of African poetry; Umukoro, M. et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature- in - English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D.I. (ed.): West African Verse.
The mood of the narrator in Mohan Singh's
'A village Girl' is one of

Aaffection
Bantagonism
Cadmiration
Dhatred
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Question 621
jamb 2002

This question is based on selected Poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New poetry from African; Syinka, W. (ed.): poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.): A Selection of African poetry; Umukoro, M. et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature- in - English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D.I. (ed.): West African Verse.
John Donne's 'Death be not Proud is informed by a

Aromantic inquest into the nature of mortality
Brejection of the belief in eternity
Cmetaphysical attack on the omnipotence of God
Dmetaphysical persuasion on the immortality of man
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Question 622
jamb 2002

This question is based on selected Poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New poetry from African; Syinka, W. (ed.): poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.): A Selection of African poetry; Umukoro, M. et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature- in - English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D.I. (ed.): West African Verse.
Lenrie Peters in 'She came in Silken Drapes' reflects

Athe paradox of childbirth
Bthe joy of motherhood
Cthe mystery of love and childbirth
Da woman's agony in labour
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Question 623
jamb 2002

This question is based on selected Poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New poetry from African; Syinka, W. (ed.): poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.): A Selection of African poetry; Umukoro, M. et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature- in - English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D.I. (ed.): West African Verse.
'Pataki and mustard flowers Like blue and yellow eyes Peep through the green grass'The literary devices used in the lines above from Mohan Singh's 'A village Girl'are

Aenjambment and alliteration
Brepetition and assonance
Crhyme and limerick
Dsimile and irony
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Question 624
jamb 2002

This question is based on selected Poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New poetry from African; Syinka, W. (ed.): poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.): A Selection of African poetry; Umukoro, M. et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature- in - English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D.I. (ed.): West African Verse.
Yusuf Kassam's ' Maji Maji is presented as a

Atraditional poem
Bnarrative poem
Clyric
Ddirge
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Question 625
jamb 2002

This question is based on selected Poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New poetry from African; Syinka, W. (ed.): poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.): A Selection of African poetry; Umukoro, M. et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature- in - English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D.I. (ed.): West African Verse.
And my children left their peaceful nakedness
For the uniform of iron and blood'
In the lines above from David Diop's Loser of Everything' the imagery depicts a displacement of

Ainnocence by violence
Bnature by science
Cvillage life by barrack life
Dthe natureal by the artificial
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Question 626
jamb 2001

This question is based on Literary Appreciation. 

'Lift not the painted veil which those who live call

life: though unreal shapes be pictured there,

And it but mimic all we would believe

With colours idly spread - behind, lurk fear,'
P.B Shelley, Sonnet.

The stanza above is an example of a

Aquatrain
Bcouplet
Cfree verse
Dlimerick
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Question 627
jamb 2001

This question is based on Literary Appreciation. 

'Careened,
These oily tears
Dripping down the tears on your depressed face,
Will one day be staunched,
I swear!
Ibiwari Ikiriko, Oily Tears

The tone of the poet is

Aoptimistic
Bsupplicatory
Csympathetic
Dpiteous
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Question 628
jamb 2001

The diction of Femi Osofisan's Morountodun can be described as

Apolitical and rhetorical
Barrogant and condemnatory
Curgent but apolitical
Dpoetic but difficult
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Question 629
jamb 2001

In Oswald Mtshali's 'Nightfall in Soweto', night

Adrives man's enemy
Bfools man's enemy
Chides man's enemy
Daids man's enemy
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Question 630
jamb 2001

'The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea,
The plowman homeward plods his weary way;
And leaves the world to darkness and to me.'

In the lines above from Gray's 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard', the imagery is

Aof an approaching night in a rustic setting
Babout a village under a curfew one night
Cof an approaching death in a village
Dof a man abandoned in his homeward journey
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