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Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

Jamb 1980 Literature In English Questions

Question 6:
The main purpose of drama is to
  • A Tell the story of dead people
  • B Teach us how to write
  • C Educate us
  • D Entertain us
  • E Both educate and entertain us.
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Question 7:
There is a devil in me that wants things i cannot get' The speaker in the novel Mine boy' is
  • A Lena
  • B Drunk Liz
  • C Malsey
  • D Paddy
  • E Eliza.
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Question 8:
The difficulties of his early life taught Kaunda the value of
  • A Self interest
  • B Economy
  • C Changing jobs
  • D Self help
  • E Political protest
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Question 9:
In zambia shall be free Kaunda describes his father as
  • A Erratic
  • B A political agitator
  • C Wicked
  • D Unlucky
  • E Strict.
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Question 10:
The night has been unruly. Where we lay. Our chimneys were blown down; and as they say lamentings heard i'th'air; strange screams of death And prophesying with accents terrible. Of dire combustion and confessed events. New hatch'd to the woeful time. The obscure bird Clamour'd the livelong night: some say the earth was feverous and did shake. This is the night .
  • A When Banquo was murdered
  • B Before macbeth was killed
  • C When the duncan and his men were fighting the enemy
  • D When macbeth went to see the witches
  • E When duncan was murdered.
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