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Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

Waec Literature In English Questions

Question 791:
Read the extract and answer the question
And can you, by no drift of circumstance,
Get from him why he puts on this confusion,
Grating so harshly all his days of quiet.
With turbulent and dangerous lunacy?
(Act 111, scene one line, 1-4)
The speaker is
  • A Gertrude
  • B Ophelia
  • C Claudius
  • D Polonius
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Question 792:
Read the extract and answer the question
And can you, by no drift of circumstance,
Get from him why he puts on this confusion,
Grating so harshly all his days of quiet.
With turbulent and dangerous lunacy?
(Act 111, scene one line, 1-4)
The character being discussed is
  • A Voltimand
  • B Hamlet
  • C Ophelia
  • D Rosencrantz
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Question 793:
Read the extract and answer the question
And can you, by no drift of circumstance,
Get from him why he puts on this confusion,
Grating so harshly all his days of quiet.
With turbulent and dangerous lunacy?
(Act 111, scene one line, 1-4)
The character being addressed are
  • A Marcellus and Horatio
  • B Bernado and Francisco
  • C Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
  • D Marcellus and Francisco
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Question 794:
Read the extract and answer the question
And can you, by no drift of circumstance,
Get from him why he puts on this confusion,
Grating so harshly all his days of quiet.
With turbulent and dangerous lunacy?
(Act 111, scene one line, 1-4)
The response given to this speech indicates that the attempt was
  • A Unsuccessful
  • B Successful
  • C Progressing
  • D Dangerous
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Question 795:
Read the extract and answer the question
And can you, by no drift of circumstance,
Get from him why he puts on this confusion,
Grating so harshly all his days of quiet.
With turbulent and dangerous lunacy?
(Act 111, scene one line, 1-4)
The enquiry is about
  • A Hamlet
  • B Laertes
  • C Ophelia
  • D Horatio
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