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Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

Jamb 1988 Literature In English Questions

Question 16:
THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON SELECTED POEMS FROM D.I. NWOGA'S (ED.): WEST AFRICAN VERSE.
'But what wakeful of man,
Made of the mud of this earth,
Can stare at the touch of sleep
The stable vehicle of dream
Which indeed is the look of your eyes?'
These lines from J.P. Clark's 'Olokun' suggests that Olokun eyes
  • A Hypnotize
  • B Cause sleeplessness
  • C Terrify
  • D Prevent dreams
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Question 17:
THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON SELECTED POEMS FROM D.I. NWOGA'S (ED.): WEST AFRICAN VERSE.
In Leopold Senghor's 'Long, long you have held between yours hands', the poet addresses himself to
  • A His beloved country for which he yearns
  • B His love
  • C His love interfused with yearning for his country
  • D A not easily discernible subject.
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Question 18:
THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON SELECTED POEMS FROM D.I. NWOGA'S (ED.): WEST AFRICAN VERSE.
In Christopher Okigbo's 'Idoto'Idoto symbolizes
  • A An object of religious worship
  • B The poet's mother
  • C The poet's cultural traditions
  • D A river in the poet's village
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Question 19:
THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON SELECTED POEMS FROM D.I. NWOGA'S (ED.): WEST AFRICAN VERSE.
'Before you, mother Idoto, naked I stand before your watery presence a prodigal'.
In the above lines from Christopher Okadigbo's Idoto, the speaker is a 'prodigal' because he
  • A Has wasted all his mother's money
  • B Is money
  • C Has come back to worship the godess which he has neglected
  • D Has been caught discraching the shrine of the godess
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Question 20:
This question is based on selected poems from D.I. Nwoga's (ed.): West African Verse.
The title of Birago Diop's 'Vanity', is intrigue because the people described in the poem are
  • A Inglorious
  • B Gentle
  • C Wretches
  • D Humble
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