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Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

Waec Literature In English Questions

Question 1056:
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: The Tempest
Read the extract and answer the question
Caliban: Ay, that I will; and I'II be wise hereafter,
And seek for grace. What a thrice-double ass
Was I, to take this drunkard for a god,
And worship this dull foot!
Prospero : Go to; away!
Alonso : Hence, and bestow your luggage where you found it.
Sebastian : Or stole, rather.
(Act V, scene one lines 293 - 299)
PROSPERO HAS ASKED CALIBAN TO
  • A Go and bring Miranda
  • B Go to Prospero's cell
  • C Fetch more wood
  • D Learn his language lessons
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Question 1057:
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: The Tempest
Read the extract and answer the question
Caliban: Ay, that I will; and I'II be wise hereafter,
And seek for grace. What a thrice-double ass
Was I, to take this drunkard for a god,
And worship this dull foot!
Prospero : Go to; away!
Alonso : Hence, and bestow your luggage where you found it.
Sebastian : Or stole, rather.
(Act V, scene one lines 293 - 299)
The contents of ''your luggage'' are
  • A Alonso's satchel and swords
  • B Food and water from the ship
  • C Paddles fur and a harpoon
  • D The clothing put up by Ariel
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Question 1058:
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: The Tempest
Read the extract and answer the question
Caliban: Ay, that I will; and I'II be wise hereafter,
And seek for grace. What a thrice-double ass
Was I, to take this drunkard for a god,
And worship this dull foot!
Prospero : Go to; away!
Alonso : Hence, and bestow your luggage where you found it.
Sebastian : Or stole, rather.
(Act V, scene one lines 293 - 299)
''this drunkard'' is
  • A Trinculo
  • B Stephano
  • C Gonzalo
  • D Alonso
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Question 1059:
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: The Tempest
Read the extract and answer the question
Caliban: Ay, that I will; and I'II be wise hereafter,
And seek for grace. What a thrice-double ass
Was I, to take this drunkard for a god,
And worship this dull foot!
Prospero : Go to; away!
Alonso : Hence, and bestow your luggage where you found it.
Sebastian : Or stole, rather.
(Act V, scene one lines 293 - 299)
Sebastian says ''Or stole it, rather'' because the luggage
  • A Does not belong to Caliban
  • B Belongs to Caliban
  • C Is not from the ship
  • D Is from the ship
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Question 1060:
Read the extrat and answer the question
Prospero: Of my instruction hast thou nothing batedIn what thou hadst to say. So, with good life
And observation strange, my meaner ministers
Their several kinds have done. My high charms work,
And these, mine enemies are all knit up
In their distractions. They now are in my power;
And in these fits I leave them,....
(Act 111, scene three lines 85-91)
Prospero is speaking to
  • A Caliban
  • B Miranda
  • C Ferdinand
  • D Ariel
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