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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.
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 17:
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 18:
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 19:
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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Question 20:
This question is based on Isidore Okpewho's The Victims.
The real victims are
  • A Ndidi and Ogo
  • B Nwanze and Obanua
  • C Ubaka and Bomboy
  • D Nwabunor and Ogugua
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