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Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

Waec Literature In English Questions

Question 1276:
Othello: So please your grace, my ancient;
A man he is of honesty and trust
To his conveyance i assign my wife
Grace shall think
To be sent after me

(Act 1, Scene Three, Lines 279-283)

Othello is leaving to__________
  • A Fight in Rhodes
  • B Make peace with the Turks
  • C Meet the government of Cyprus
  • D Take over the government of Cyprus
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Question 1277:
Othello: So please your grace, my ancient;
A man he is of honesty and trust
To his conveyance i assign my wife
Grace shall think
To be sent after me

(Act 1, Scene Three, Lines 279-283)

Othello then_________
  • A Leaves with Desdemona
  • B Entrusts Desdemona to Iago's care
  • C Calls his lieutenant
  • D Confers with the Duke
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Question 1278:
Iago: Mere prattle without practice
Is all his soldiership, But he, Sir had the election;
And I, of whom his eyes had seen the proof
At Rhodes, at Cyprus, and on other grounds
.....must be belee'd and calmed
By debitor and creditor

(Act 1, Scene One, Lines 23-28)

His soldiership refers to______________
  • A Roderigo
  • B Montano
  • C Cassio
  • D Brabantio
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Question 1279:
Iago: Mere prattle without practice
Is all his soldiership, But he, Sir had the election;
And I, of whom his eyes had seen the proof
At Rhodes, at Cyprus, and on other grounds
.....must be belee'd and calmed
By debitor and creditor

(Act 1, Scene One, Lines 23-28)

Sir refers to__________
  • A Cassio
  • B Roderigo
  • C Othello
  • D Duke
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Question 1280:
Iago: Mere prattle without practice
Is all his soldiership, But he, Sir had the election;
And I, of whom his eyes had seen the proof
At Rhodes, at Cyprus, and on other grounds
.....must be belee'd and calmed
By debitor and creditor

(Act 1, Scene One, Lines 23-28)

Iago___________
  • A Wants to go to Cyprus with Othello
  • B Does not regard Roderigo as a good soldier
  • C Is bitter about Cassio's appointment as Lieutenant
  • D Disregards Othello
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