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Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

Waec Literature In English Questions

Question 781:
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Hamlet
Read the extract and answer the question
Do not forget: this visitation
Is but to what thy almost blunted purpose
But, look, amazement as thy mother sits:
O, step between her and her fighting soul:
(Act 111, scene four, lines 107 -110)
The speaker is
  • A Claudius
  • B Ghost
  • C Gertrude
  • D Horatio
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Question 782:
Read the extract and answer the question
Do not forget: this visitation
Is but to what thy almost blunted purpose
But, look, amazement as thy mother sits:
O, step between her and her fighting soul:
(Act 111, scene four, lines 107 -110)
The character being addressed is
  • A Polonius
  • B Laertes
  • C Ophelia
  • D Hamlet
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Question 783:
Read the extract and answer the question
Do not forget: this visitation
Is but to what thy almost blunted purpose
But, look, amazement as thy mother sits:
O, step between her and her fighting soul:
(Act 111, scene four, lines 107 -110)
The speech is made in the
  • A Queen' s closet
  • B Queen's room
  • C Hall
  • D Palace
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Question 784:
Read the extract and answer the question
Do not forget: this visitation
Is but to what thy almost blunted purpose
But, look, amazement as thy mother sits:
O, step between her and her fighting soul:
(Act 111, scene four, lines 107 -110)
''blunted purpose'' implies
  • A Inactivity
  • B Blindness
  • C Happiness
  • D Tiredness
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Question 785:
Read the extract and answer the question
Do not forget: this visitation
Is but to what thy almost blunted purpose
But, look, amazement as thy mother sits:
O, step between her and her fighting soul:
(Act 111, scene four, lines 107 -110)
''fighting soul'' implies
  • A Clear conscience
  • B Hope
  • C Fear
  • D Guilty conscience
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