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Jamb Literature In English Questions

Question 6:
What literary mode best described Soyinka's The Trial Of Brother Jero, the most central deals with the
  • A Tragedy
  • B Satire
  • C Tragi-comedy
  • D Epic
  • E Baroque.
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Question 7:
Brother Jero's attitude to his vocation is
  • A Self-denying
  • B Commercial
  • C Philanthropic
  • D Nonchalant
  • E Messianic.
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Question 8:
Of the issues raised by Wole Soyinka in The Trials Of Brother Jero, the most central deals with the
  • A Fraustration of an incompatible marriage
  • B Rivarly of religious sects
  • C Negative qualities of women
  • D Evil of religious demagogy
  • E Disadvantages of over-ambitious, naive personality.
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Question 9:
The 'curse' the old master put on Brother Jero is that he would
  • A Drown in water
  • B Be killed by armed robbers
  • C Come to ruin by women
  • D Loss his prophetic visions
  • E Die in a road mishap.
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Question 10:
'Vanished. Transported. Utterly transmuted.
i knew it. i knew i stood in the presence of God...
This statement of Ecstasy was made in The Trials Of Brother Jero by
  • A Brother Jero
  • B Chume
  • C The old prophet
  • D The unnamed penitent woman
  • E The unnamed member of parliament.
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