10 questions from the JAMB 2024 Literature paper, with answers and explanations. Tap "Show answer" under each one when you are ready.
JAMB 2024Question 1 · Drama Set Texts
This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel Lakunle declines to pay bride price on Sidi because he sees tradition as
A.unholy
B.illegal
C.babaric
D.childish
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Answer: C. babaric
Lakunle views the bride-price tradition as barbaric and outdated.
JAMB 2024Question 2 · Drama Set Texts
This question is based on John Osbourne's Look Back in Anger The protagonist in the play is
A.Alison Porter
B.Cliff Lewis
C.Jimmy Porter
D.Colonel Redfern
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Answer: C. Jimmy Porter
Jimmy Porter is the protagonist of Look Back in Anger.
JAMB 2024Question 3 · Drama Set Texts
This question is based on John Osborne's Look Back in Anger. Jimmy's harmatia is
A.infidelity
B.anger
C.pride
D.jealousy
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Answer: B. anger
Jimmy's hamartia (tragic flaw) is his anger.
JAMB 2024Question 4 · General Literary Principles
A long narrative poem that relates heroic exploits is
A.panegyric
B.lyric
C.ballad
D.epic
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Answer: D. epic
A long narrative poem relating heroic exploits is an epic.
JAMB 2024Question 5 · Literary Appreciation
This question is based on Literary Appreciation. Football is the only sport on earth that can be considered truly global. Simple and inexpensive. it is equally likely to be found in a tight Marseille banlieue, an obscure corner of a Lagos slum, and the heart of a Buenos barrio. Marley's music is similarly universal... According to the excerpt above, football is
A.played only in Lagos slums
B.footballers like Marley's music
C.popular but cheap
D.a universal game
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Answer: D. a universal game
Global reach in slums, banlieues, and barrios shows football is a universal game.
JAMB 2024Question 6 · Poetry Set Texts
In Senghor's Black Woman, the dominant literary device is
A.hyperbole
B.personification
C.simile
D.metaphor
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Answer: D. metaphor
Senghor sustains an extended metaphor comparing the woman to the land/Africa.
JAMB 2024Question 7 · Poetry Set Texts
Osundare's "The Leader and the Led" is
A.dramatic
B.satiric
C.narrative
D.elegaic
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Answer: B. satiric
Osundare's poem satirises leadership failures, making it satiric.
JAMB 2024Question 8 · Poetry Set Texts
"But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams" The excerpt above from Angelou's "Caged Bird" implies that caged bird
A.will die
B.will be frustrated
C.stands on its grave
D.walks freely to actualise its dream
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Answer: B. will be frustrated
The caged bird, unable to fly free, will be frustrated in pursuing its dreams.
JAMB 2024Question 9 · Prose Set Texts
This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's Second Class Citizen Adah is so obsessed with the sleek woman at the hospital because the woman
A.has a doting husband
B.has a high paying job
C.gives birth to twins
D.lives in a mansion
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Answer: A. has a doting husband
Adah is fixated on the sleek woman because she has a doting husband.
JAMB 2024Question 10 · Prose Set Texts
The question is based on Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights The structure of the novel is based on two major conflicts of
A.love
B.passion
C.emotion
D.romance
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Answer: B. passion
The novel's structure turns on two generations' conflicts driven by passion.
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