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Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

Jamb 1994 Literature In English Questions

Question 6:
"There's no art
To find the mind's construction in the face...'
Based on William Shakespeare's Macbeth,the above statement means that there is no
  • A Artist who can construct a face
  • B Skill of reading thoughts from the face
  • C Skill of differentiating the face from the mind
  • D Artist who can understand a man
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Question 7:
"Why should I play the Roman fool, and die
On mine own sword?"
Based on William Shakespeare's Macbeth,playing the Roman fool from the above statement implies
  • A Acting the part of a foolish Roman
  • B Behaving like Brutus and Mark Anthony
  • C Acting like foolish Romans who killed themselves with their own hands
  • D Acting the Part of a Roman fool in a play
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Question 8:
"Rather than so, come fate, into the list,
And champion me to the utterance!"
Based on William Shakespeare's Macbeth, "Rather than so"in the quotation above refers to
  • A Macbeth's fear of not being king
  • B Banqou's children becoming kings
  • C Macduff defeating Macbeth on the battle field
  • D Birnam wood coming to Dunsinane
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Question 9:
"Thou loosest labour
As easy may'st thou the in trenchant air
With thy keen sword impress,..."
Based on William Shakespeare's Macbeth, the confidence above derives from the fact that
  • A The air cannot be cut
  • B It is futile to cut the air with a sword
  • C No man born of a woman can hurt Macbeth
  • D Macduff wastes his efforts fighting Macbeth
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Question 10:
'...Sir, nose-painting, sleep and urine.Lechery,
Sir, it provokes:it provokes the
desire, but it takes away the performance.'
Based on William Shakespeare's Macbeth, the statement above can best be described as
  • A Equivocation
  • B Allusion
  • C Paradox
  • D Monologue
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