1990 JAMB UTME Literature In English Past Questions

1990

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

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

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?

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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…

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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…

1990

This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel.'...But there have beenNo new reads cut by his servantsNo new cots woven..'It can be inferred from the above lines that

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

1990

This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I. Nwoga (ed.) West African Verse.'When our Dead come with their DeadWhen they have spoken to us with their clumsy voices...'Th…

1990

This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I. Nwoga (ed.) West African Verse.Gabriel Okara presents the Black in relation to the child-Front in his poem 'The Fisherman'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.'...Tide and market come and goAnd so shall your mother.'The above lines from J.P. Clark's 'S…

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

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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…

1990

This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I. Nwoga (ed.) West African Verse.'...these white lilies tossed their little heads then In the moon-steeped ponds;There was bou…

1990

This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I. Nwoga (ed.) West African Verse....'the hawk will flutter and turnOn its wings and swoop for the mouse,The dogs will run for…

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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.As suggested in Agostinho Neto's 'Night', the problems the problem of the blackman today driv…

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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.Theo Luzuka's 'The Motoka' is cast in the mould 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 words 'naked' and 'barefoot' as used in Christopher Okigbo's 'The Passage' suggest

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This question is based on Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God The immediate cause of the war between Umuaro and Okperi was the

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This question is based on Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God '''It is good for a misfortune like this to happen once in a while,'he said, 'so that we can know the thoughts of our friends and neighbours. Unless the wind blows w…

1990

This question is based on Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God Which of the following BEST describes Ezeulu's mood when he was locked up in Okperi by the white administrator?

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