JAMB English 2022

What did the author of the book study?

A) B.Sc (Ed) Mathematics B) B.A English Language C) B.A Literary Studies D) BSc Political Science

Correct Answer: A) B.Sc (Ed) Mathematics

The book described Talle as a?

A) The precious child B) The quiet one C) The friendly child D) the holy child

Correct Answer: B) The quiet one

Who was Omar's immediate sister?

A) Ummi B) Omar C) Salma D) Teemah

Correct Answer: D) Teemah

Ummi's husband wanted to study law but the providence chose that he study _____

A) commerce B) accounting C) law D) history

Correct Answer: B) accounting

The full meaning of IPO is ______

A) Independent Police Officer B) International Police Officer C) Investigating Police Officer D) Investigative Police Officer

Correct Answer: C) Investigating Police Officer

What is Ummi's Occupation?

A) Trader B) Teacher C) Business woman D) Nurse

Correct Answer: B) Teacher

What is Ummi Matric Number?

A) UG0001 B) UG00001 C) UG001 D) UG0011

Correct Answer: A) UG0001

What is full meaning of EMEC

A) Examination Malpractice and Ethics Committee B) Examining Malpractice and Ethics Committee C) Examination Malpractice and Ethics Convention D) Examination Management and Ethics Committee

Correct Answer: A) Examination Malpractice and Ethics Committee

What is the full name of Salma?

A) Salma Mohammed B) Salma Johnson C) Salma Samuel D) Salma Ahmed

Correct Answer: A) Salma Mohammed

Who was the narrator of the life changer?

A) Salma B) Ummi C) Omar D) Bint

Correct Answer: B) Ummi

How old is Bint ?

A) 6 years old B) 4 years old C) 5 years old D) 7 years old

Correct Answer: C) 5 years old

What question did Bint ask her teacher?

A) How to say good morning B) How to say what is your name C) How to say you're welcome D) How to say that's very good

Correct Answer: D) How to say that's very good

Who were the people in the car?

A) Lawal and Labaran B) Habib and Labaran C) Lawal and Kabir D) Labara and Zarki

Correct Answer: B) Habib and Labaran

How much did Habib give Tomiwa personally?

A) Ten thousand naira B) Five Thousand Naira C) Thirty thousand naira D) Twenty Thousand naira

Correct Answer: D) Twenty Thousand naira

How much did Tomiwa give her roommates?

A) Five thousand naira B) Ten thousand Naira C) Fifteen thousand Naira D) Twenty thousand naira

Correct Answer: B) Ten thousand Naira

What was Omar's JAMB exam?

A) 230 B) 250 C) 220 D) 260

Correct Answer: A) 230

What is the full meaning of the acronym EMAL

A) Examination Malpractice B) Examination misconduct C) Examination management D) Examination Manners

Correct Answer: A) Examination Malpractice

Who introduced the snail delicacy?

A) Salma B) Ngozi C) Ada D) Tomiwa

Correct Answer: D) Tomiwa

"Nothing happened, My friend didn't feel like giving you her number so she gave you mine instead" Who is the friend?

A) Salma B) Ada C) Tomiwa D) Ngozi

Correct Answer: A) Salma

It might be said that there is some kind of sibling rivalry between

A) Teemah and Bint B) Teemah and Omar C) Jamila and Omar D) Jamila and Teemah

Correct Answer: B) Teemah and Omar

One reason the narrator had the habit of entering her children's room unannounced was because

A) to monitor their hygiene and tidiness B) to monitor their prayer life C) to check on their welfare D) to keep them studying their books

Correct Answer: A) to monitor their hygiene and tidiness

According to the story, one of the following is true

A) Tomiwa and Ngozi are neighbours B) Ada and Salma are course mates C) Salma and Tomiwa are rivals D) Salma and Tomiwa are roommates

Correct Answer: D) Salma and Tomiwa are roommates

Read the passage below and answer the questions

May in Ayemenem is a hot, brooding month. The days are long and humid. The river shrinks and black crows gorge on bright mangoes in still, dust green trees. Red bananas ripen. Jackfruits burst. Dissolute blue bottles hum vacuously in the fruity air. Then they stun themselves against clear windowpanes and die, fatly baffled in the sun. The nights are clear but suffused with sloth and sullen expectations.
But by early June the southwest monsoon breaks and there are three months of wind and water with short spells of sharp, glittering sunshine that thrilled children snatch to play with. The countryside turns an immodest green. Boundaries blur as tapioca fences take root and bloom. Brick walls turn mossgreen. Pepper vines snake up electric poles. Wild creepers burst through laterite banks and spilt across the flooded roads. Boats ply in the bazaars. And small fish appear in the puddles that fill the PWD potholes on the highways. It was raining when Rahel came back to Ayemenem.
Slanting silver ropes slammed into loose earth, ploughing it up like gunfire. The old house on the hill wore its steep, gabled roof pulled over its ears like a low hat. The walls, streaked with moss, had grown soft and bulged a little with dampness that seeped up from the ground. The wild, overgrown garden was full of the whisper and scurry of small lives.In the undergrowth, a rat snake rubbed itself against a glistening stone. Hopeful yellow bullfrogs cruised the scummy pond for mates. A drenched mongoose flashed across the leaf-strewn driveway. The house itself looked empty. The doors and windows were locked. The front verandah bare. Unfurnished.
But the sky blue Plymouth with chrome tail fins was still parked outside, and inside, Baby Kochamma was still alive. She was Rahel's baby grand aunt, her grandfather's younger sister. Her name was really Navomi, Navomi Ipe, but everybody called her Baby. She became Baby Kochamma when she was old enough to be an aunt. Rahel hadn't come to see her, though.
Neither niece nor baby grandaunt laboured under any illusions on that account. Rahel had come to see her brother, Estha. They were two-egg twins. "Dizygotic’ doctors called them. Born from separate but simultaneously fertilised eggs. Estha Esthappen-was the older by 18 minutes.

Early in which month did the southwest monsoon break?

A) August B) May C) July D) June

Correct Answer: A) August

What rubbed itself against a glistening stone?

A) plymouth B) wild creepers C) bullfrogs D) rat snakes

Correct Answer: D) rat snakes

Rachel had come to see_______.

A) Estha B) Kochamma C) Navomi Ipe D) no one

Correct Answer: A) Estha

What was Baby's real name?

A) Navomi Ipe B) Estha C) Rachel D) Kochamma

Correct Answer: A) Navomi Ipe

From the words lettered A to D, choose the word that rhymes with the given word

Prison

A) rising B) risen C) potion D) motion

Correct Answer: B) risen

Crate

A) Great B) Mint C) Creek D) Treat

Correct Answer: A) Great

Phone

A) frown B) grown C) gown D) brown

Correct Answer: B) grown

Choose the word that has a different stress pattern

A) embrace B) suspect C) member D) Project

Correct Answer: C) member

Choose the option that has the same consonant sound as the one represented by the letter(s) underlined

Watched

A) lived B) address C) letter D) match

Correct Answer: C) letter

In each of the following sentences, the word that receives the emphatic stress is written in capital letters. From the options lettered A to D, choose the appropriate answer

John's watch is made of GOLD.

A) Whose watch is made of gold? B) What is made of gold? C) Is John's watch made of silver? D) Is John's necklace made of gold?

Correct Answer: C) Is John's watch made of silver?

She WORKS at the hospital.

A) Who works at the hospital? B) Where does she work? C) Does she work at the hospital? D) What does she do at the hospital?

Correct Answer: D) What does she do at the hospital?

Aderonke STATED she had a right to her privacy.

A) Did Aderonke lament she had a right to her privacy? B) Did Omowunmi state she had a right to her privacy? C) Did Aderonke state she had a right to his privacy? D) Did Aderonke state she had a right to her openness?

Correct Answer: A) Did Aderonke lament she had a right to her privacy?

Choose the option that has the same consonant sound as the one represented by the letter(s) underlined.

National

A) sugar B) raise C) glass D) tree

Correct Answer: A) sugar

Identify the word that has the stress on the first syllable

A) Hotel B) Esteem C) Police D) Table

Correct Answer: D) Table

From the options lettered A-D, choose the option that is most nearly opposite in meaning to the underlined word.

Twice, he was repulsed with heavy losses

A) repelled B) gratified C) irated D) shocked

Correct Answer: B) gratified

I only visited Chidi. This means that

A) None of the above B) I didn't do anything asides visiting Chidi C) I didn't go with anyone to visit Chidi D) I visited Chidi and his friends

Correct Answer: B) I didn't do anything asides visiting Chidi

From the options lettered A-D, choose the option that is most nearly opposite in meaning to the underlined word.

My father is parsimonious

A) thrifty B) ungenerous C) frugal D) generous

Correct Answer: D) generous

Last Easter was an austere period.

A) harsh B) severe C) prosperous D) sour

Correct Answer: C) prosperous

Choose the word that has a different stress pattern

A) Project B) Basic C) Suspect D) Neglect

Correct Answer: B) Basic

Choose the option that has the same consonant sound as the one represented by the letter(s) underlined.

foot

A) live B) vegetable C) traffic D) Of

Correct Answer: C) traffic

Choose the option that has a different vowel sound from the others

A) here B) beer C) idea D) head

Correct Answer: D) head

Choose the option that has a different vowel sound from the others

A) beach B) ski C) be D) been

Correct Answer: D) been

Read the passage and answer the questions below

Christopher Marlowe, the son of Marlowe who is described as the clerk of St Mary's in the city of Canterbury, was born in 1564. He received his early education at The King's School in that city. He took the degrees of B.A. and M.A. in 1583 and 1587 respectively from Cambridge University. He started writing poems and became a renowned dramatist in the Admiral's Company.
Marlowe is known as one of the university wits, a group of dramatists along with Robert Greene, Thomas Nash, and George Peele. Marlowe is considered the greatest precursor to Shakespeare. When Marlowe came upon the English stage, the nature of drama was undeveloped. The verses in the dramas were lifeless. But Marlowe gave English drama an appropriate meter, diction, and method. It is really a matter of speculation what kind of greatness he would have achieved if his life had not been terminated (C++) in a duel after a brawl in a tavern (inn).
The literary life of Marlowe had a short span, from 1587 to 1593. During this period, he wrote five plays which were all tragedies as he had no comic vein. His tragedies like Dr Faustus, The Jew of Malta, and Edward Il are rated as some of the best works of the Elizabethan age. He also wrote an unfinished poem Hero and Leander and translated some parts of Ovid's (a Roman Poet) elegies.
Marlowe's subjects are mostly heroic which appeals to the imagination of the play-goers. His heroes epitomize the spirit of the Renaissance. Each of them embodies a passion and tries to achieve lies in his development of the blank verse. He put it at any cost. But Marlowe's chief contribution aside from the old rhyming lines then employed in the plays and used blank verse. Thus, the language of drama was brought closer to real life and drama was made ready for Shakespeare (1564-1616) to improve upon it. It is rightly said, "No Marlowe, no Shakespeare"

When did Christopher Marlowe get his first degree?

A) 1587 B) 1583 C) 1593 D) 1564

Correct Answer: B) 1583

How long was Christopher Marlowe's literary life?

A) 6 years B) 60 years C) 10 years D) 5 years

Correct Answer: A) 6 years

My account with the bank is in the red. This means that my account is

A) heavy B) in danger C) overdrawn D) written in red ink

Correct Answer: C) overdrawn

Fill in the gap with the option that best completes the sentence

Between you and _____, he is a liar.

A) all of the above B) me C) I D) none of the above

Correct Answer: B) me

The secretary and treasurer did not do ____ job.

A) their B) all of the above C) none of the above D) his

Correct Answer: D) his

If James fails his examination, his teachers, his parents, his friends, or I ______ to blame.

A) are B) is C) am D) not

Correct Answer: C) am

Fill in the gap with the option that best completes the sentence.

I have always found that it is helpful to have a few wise and trusted people to ________ you can turn to for information and advice.

A) whom B) who C) whose D) that

Correct Answer: A) whom

We ought to stay away ______ the robbers come back

A) provided B) should in case C) although D) in case

Correct Answer: D) in case

It was _____ who killed the goat.

A) his B) him C) he D) us

Correct Answer: C) he

From the options lettered A-D, choose the option that is nearest in meaning to the underlined word.

Bankole is upset as his wife does not understand his predicament.

A) sadness B) dilemma C) deadlock D) happiness

Correct Answer: B) dilemma

It is wise not to depend on mundane things.

A) imported B) material C) attractive D) expensive

Correct Answer: B) material

Now that the company is insolvent , it will shut down.

A) overworked B) unstable C) bankrupt D) affluent

Correct Answer: C) bankrupt

Choose the option that has the same consonant sound as the one represented by the letter(s) underlined. mother

A) think B) teacher C) breathe D) Watched

Correct Answer: C) breathe

Pick out the option with a different rhyme

A) Roar B) Four C) Growl D) Bore

Correct Answer: C) Growl

Choose the word that has the same rhyme Watch

A) none of the above B) botch C) catch D) Match

Correct Answer: B) botch

Choose the option that has the same stress pattern as the given word.
Student

A) Refuse(noun) B) Propose C) Rebel(Verb) D) Superb

Correct Answer: A) Refuse(noun)