1989 JAMB UTME Literature In English Past Questions

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This question is based on George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man.The initial reluctance of the Petkoff's family to accept Bluntschli's marriage proposition to Raina was on the account of his

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This question is based on George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man.'Excuse me Bluntschll what did you say had spoiled your chances in life?According to Bluntschll what had spoiled his chances in life was

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This question is based on George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man....What would Sergius, the hero of Slivnitza, say if he saw me now? What would Sergius, the apostle of higher love, say if he saw me now?What would the hal…

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This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel.Lakunle:... To fetch and carry To cook and scrub To bring forth children by the grossSidi: Heaven forgive you! Do you now scorn child bearing in a wife?Wha…

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This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel.The immediate consequence of the publication of Sidi's pictures is to make her

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This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.In Agostinho Neto's 'Night', night basically symbolises

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This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.'...Ha! That motoka is motokaIt belongs to the Minister of FairnessWho yesterday was loaded wit…

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This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.The oilbean in Christopher Okigbo's 'The Passage refers to

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This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.'And since we did not understand our dead since we have never listened to their cries If we wee…

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This question is based on George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man.The play ends on a note of

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This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.'...and we learn to sing half familiar half strange songsWe learn to dance to half familiar hal…

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This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.'...Horrors were flowers then the bright red bougainvilla'. The above lines from Kwesi Brew's '…

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This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.J.P Clak's 'Streamside Exchange, depicts an interplay of

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This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.The lesson learnt from 'The Fulani Creation Story' is that Doondari cannot tolerate

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This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.In Odia Ofeimun's 'The Prodigals', the attitude of the returnees is best described as

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This question is based on Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God.When he came back from Operi I went to his house and he talked like a sane man. I reminded him of saying that a man must dance the dance prevailing in his time...'Th…

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This question is based on Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God.'....a man who brings ant-ridden faggots into his hut should expect the visit of lizards...What does Nwaka refer to as 'ant-ridden faggots' in this context?

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This question is based on Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God.The lesson which emerges from the fate of Ezeulu is that

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This question is based on Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God.Ezeulu sent his son, Oduche, to join the Christians because

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This question is based on Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God.Nwaka's hostility to Ezeulu is attributable to

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