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Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

Waec Literature In English Questions

Question 1551:
A Midsummer Night's Read the extract below and answer questions 31 to 35.
X: You do impeach your modesty too much,
To leave the city and commit yourself
Into the hands of one that loves you not;
To trust the opportunity of night
And the ill counsel of a desert place

Y: With the rich worth of your virginity.
Your virtue is my privilege: for that
it is not night when I do see your face,
Therefore I think I am not in the night;


Speaker X sees Speaker Y
  • A As a pretender
  • B As a past lover
  • C For the first time
  • D For the last time
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Question 1552:
A Midsummer Night's Read the extract below and answer questions 31 to 35.
X: You do impeach your modesty too much,
To leave the city and commit yourself
Into the hands of one that loves you not;
To trust the opportunity of night
And the ill counsel of a desert place

Y: With the rich worth of your virginity.
Your virtue is my privilege: for that
it is not night when I do see your face,
Therefore I think I am not in the night;


Both speakers are in the woods
  • A To hide from each other
  • B To spy on each other
  • C For different reasons
  • D For the same reason
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Question 1553:
A Midsummer Night's Read the extract below and answer questions 31 to 35.
X: You do impeach your modesty too much,
To leave the city and commit yourself
Into the hands of one that loves you not;
To trust the opportunity of night
And the ill counsel of a desert place

Y: With the rich worth of your virginity.
Your virtue is my privilege: for that
it is not night when I do see your face,
Therefore I think I am not in the night;


Night evolves in the speakers'
  • A Huge responsibilities
  • B Contracting feelings
  • C Despairing thoughts
  • D Erotic feelings
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Question 1554:
Read the extract below and answer questions 36 to 40
But, masters, here are our parts, and I am to entreat you, request you, and desire you, to con them by to-morrow night; and meet me in the place wood, a mile without the town, by moonlight. There will we rehearse: for if we meet in the city, we shall be dogged with company, and Our devices known.
(Act I, Scene two Lines 79-84)


The speaker is ____________
  • A Bottom
  • B Peaseblossom
  • C Quince
  • D Puck
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Question 1555:
Read the extract below and answer questions 36 to 40
But, masters, here are our parts, and I am to entreat you, request you, and desire you, to con them by to-morrow night; and meet me in the place wood, a mile without the town, by moonlight. There will we rehearse: for if we meet in the city, we shall be dogged with company, and Our devices known.
(Act I, Scene two Lines 79-84)


The speaker is addressing ____________
  • A Artists
  • B Painters
  • C Actors
  • D Writers
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