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Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

Waec Literature In English Questions

Question 1281:
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 eyes refers to____________
  • A Lodovico
  • B Cassio
  • C Othello
  • D Duke
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Question 1282:
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)

The setting is_______
  • A The Castle
  • B Cyprus
  • C A sea-port
  • D Venice
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Question 1283:
Speaker: My wife! My wife! My wife?
I have no wife,
O, insupportable! O heavy hour!
Me thinks it should be now a huge
Eclipse of Sun and Moon, and that
th'affrighted globe

(Act V, Scene Two, Lines 97-101)

The speaker is ________
  • A Iago
  • B Othello
  • C Brabantio
  • D Duke
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Question 1284:
Speaker: My wife! My wife! My wife?
I have no wife,
O, insupportable! O heavy hour!
Me thinks it should be now a huge
Eclipse of Sun and Moon, and that
th'affrighted globe

(Act V, Scene Two, Lines 97-101)

The first two lines express the speaker's_____________
  • A Loneliness
  • B Fear
  • C Confusion
  • D Regret
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Question 1285:
Speaker: My wife! My wife! My wife?
I have no wife,
O, insupportable! O heavy hour!
Me thinks it should be now a huge
Eclipse of Sun and Moon, and that
th'affrighted globe

(Act V, Scene Two, Lines 97-101)

The speaker has just_______________
  • A Divorced his wife
  • B Arrived home from war
  • C Had a nightmare
  • D Smothered his wife
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