JAMB Literature in English 2018 Question 3

Question 3

Other Set Texts: Non-African Drama

Questions 3 to 4 are based on Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun". Beneatha's spraying of the apartment seems symbolic of her dissatisfaction with her surroundings, she wants to rid herself and her family of what she later refers to as

  1. A.graphic terrors
  2. B.acute ghetto it is
  3. C.ocomogoslay
  4. D.clybourne
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Answer: B (acute ghetto it is)

Explanation

Beneatha jokes that the family suffers from 'acute ghetto-itis', her name for the effects of slum living.