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Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

Waec Literature In English Questions

Question 581:
Read the extract and answer the question
As thou art to thyself:
Such was the very armour he had on
When he the amitious Norway combated;
So frown'd he once, when , in an angry parle,
He smote the sledded Polacks on the ice....
(Act 1, Scene one, lines 59-63)
The passage conveys an atmosphere of
  • A Peace
  • B Celebration
  • C War
  • D Anxiety
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Question 582:
The subject of discussion is
  • A Hamlet
  • B The ghost
  • C Claudius
  • D Laertes
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Question 583:
Read the extract and answer the question
X : What is the matter?
Y : Save yourself, my lord:
The ocean, overpeering of his list,
Eats not the flats with more impetuous haste
Than young Laertes....
(Act 4, Scene five, lines 97-101)
Speaker x IS
  • A A messenger
  • B The King
  • C The Queen
  • D Laertes
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Question 584:
Read the extract and answer the question
X : What is the matter?
Y : Save yourself, my lord:
The ocean, overpeering of his list,
Eats not the flats with more impetuous haste
Than young Laertes....
(Act 4, Scene five, lines 97-101)
Speaker Y is
  • A The Queen
  • B Polonius
  • C An attendant
  • D Ophelia
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Question 585:
Read the extract and answer the question
X : What is the matter?
Y : Save yourself, my lord:
The ocean, overpeering of his list,
Eats not the flats with more impetuous haste
Than young Laertes....
(Act 4, Scene five, lines 97-101)
The characters who come on the scene shortly afterwards are
  • A Laertes and the Danes
  • B The Queen and Hamlet
  • C Ophelia and the Danes
  • D Hamlet and Laertes
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