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Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

Waec Literature In English Questions

Question 586:
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 other character present in the scene is
  • A The Queen
  • B Hamlet
  • C Horatio
  • D Marcellus
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Question 587:
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 King had just requested that all the
  • A Doors be broken
  • B Doors be guarded
  • C Windows be locked
  • D Windows be opened
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Question 588:
Read the extract and answer the question 45-50
Angels and ministers of grace defend us!
Be thou a spirit of health, or goblin damn'd,
Bring with thee airs from heaven, or blasts from hell,
Be thy intents wicked or charitable,
Thou comest in such a questionable shape.....
(Act l, Scene four, lines 39-43)
The speaker is
  • A Hamlet
  • B Marcellus
  • C Horatio
  • D Laertes
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Question 589:
Read the extract and answer the question 45-50
Angels and ministers of grace defend us!
Be thou a spirit of health, or goblin damn'd,
Bring with thee airs from heaven, or blasts from hell,
Be thy intents wicked or charitable,
Thou comest in such a questionable shape.....
(Act l, Scene four, lines 39-43)
The character who just spoke before the speaker is
  • A Horatio
  • B Laertes
  • C Hamlet
  • D Marcellus
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Question 590:
Read the extract and answer the question 45-50
Angels and ministers of grace defend us!
Be thou a spirit of health, or goblin damn'd,
Bring with thee airs from heaven, or blasts from hell,
Be thy intents wicked or charitable,
Thou comest in such a questionable shape.....
(Act l, Scene four, lines 39-43)
The setting of the extract is
  • A A room in the castle
  • B The platform
  • C The queen's closet
  • D A graveyard
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