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Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

Jamb 1987 Literature In English Questions

Question 1:
In the play The Gods Are Not To Blame, Odewale became King of Kutuje by
  • A Usurpation in a typical Ijekun manner
  • B Deserting the poeple of Ikolu whose army he led
  • C Divulging the war secrets of Ikolu to Kutuje
  • D Leading Kutuje in a war against Ikolu.
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Question 2:
'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, and mine is the victory...'
The one weapon to which the speaker in The Gods Are Not To Blame refers is
  • A Pprophecy
  • B Courage
  • C Truth
  • D Justice.
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Question 3:
'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
  • A Iya Aburo to mesmerise her son
  • B Baba Fakunle to mesmerise his assailants
  • C Odewale to mesmerise his assailants
  • D Old man to mesmerise Odewale.
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Question 4:
'But Obatal,
God Creation,
has a way
of consoling the distressed.
The consolation referred to by the narrator in The Gods Are Not To Blame is the
  • A Great peace that reigned in the land of Kutuje
  • B Subjugation of the warlike people of Ikolu
  • C Pregnancy of Aburo, Odewale's second wife
  • D Birth of Aderopo by Ojuola.
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Question 5:
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 Blame?
  • A Everyone can see he is mad, your highness
  • B Only a madman would want to see the king now, your highness
  • C We all know him very well, your highness
  • D He is not a man of our tribe, your highness.
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