1987 JAMB UTME Literature In English Past Questions

1987

FIRST BODYGUARD: A madman wanting to see the king! The world, indeed, is mad OJUOLA: How do you know he is a madman?Which of the following is the answer given by the second bodyguard to Ojuola in The Gods Are Not To Blam…

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'But Obatal,God Creation,Has a wayOf consoling the distressed.The consolation referred to by the narrator in The Gods Are Not To Blame is the

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'The let these eyes around me close, Close close in sleep, close in sleep. That is my word-the mountain always sleeps. Sleep Sleep... sleep..sleep...'These lines from The Gods Are Not To Blame were chanted by

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'No, let them attack me. Is it not Ignorance that makes the rat attack the cat? Ten thousand of them-let them ... attack me. they have the arms, they have the swords. But me... I have only one weapon and this i have used…

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In the play The Gods Are Not To Blame, Odewale became King of Kutuje by

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The tragedy in Romeo and Juliet occurs as a result of

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Which of the following illustrate the element of chance in Romeo and Juliet?

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'The all-seeing sunNe'er saw her match since first the world begun'The above lines were spoken in Romeo and Juliet by

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'O she doth teach the torches to burn bright!It seems she hangs upon the check of night As a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear' Romeo and JulietIn these lines Juliet's beauty is presented

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'From forth the fatal lions of these two foes A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life...'These lines from Romeo and Juliet suggest that the

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In J.P Clark's Olokun', the line 'So drunken like ancient walls'Means that the worshipers are drunken with

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In J.P Clark's 'Olokun', the line 'No greater love has a woman' signifies

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At the end of the poem 'pianos and Drums', the protagonist is best described as

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''But it is not the time To lay wreaths For yesterdays crimes...''Lenrie Peters in his poem, "We Have Come Home'' makes this statement because

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In ''Abiku'', the statement ''Yams do not sprout in amulets To earth Abiku''s limbs....''Simply means

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Which of the following best describes Nwabunor in The Victims?

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In The Victims, the two old women play the role of

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The sufferings of the protagonist in Birago Diop's 'vanity' are

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Which of the following best describes the speakers attitude to mother Idoto in Okigbo's poem 'Idoto'?

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'I shall sleep under the roof of other heads of hair in shelter from storms'. In Leopold Senghor's poem 'Long long you have held between your hands', the word 'storms' in the above line refers to

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