Waec Literature In English Past Questions
Question 71
Read the extract below and answer the question:
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Twelfth Night
A : What country, friends, is this?
B : This is lllyria, Lady,
A : And what should I do in lllyria?
My brother he is in Elysium.
Perchance he is not drowned - What think you, sailors?
B : It is perchance that you yourself where saved
A : O my poor brother. and so perchance may he be
(Act 1 Scene II)
Speaker B is
- A. Sir Toby
- B. Sir Andrew
- C. Captain
- D. Olivia
Question 72
Read the extract below and answer the question:
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Twelfth Night
A : What country, friends, is this?
B : This is lllyria, Lady,
A : And what should I do in lllyria?
My brother he is in Elysium.
Perchance he is not drowned - What think you, sailors?
B : It is perchance that you yourself where saved
A : O my poor brother. and so perchance may he be
(Act 1 Scene II)
Speaker A is
- A. Maria
- B. Olivia
- C. Valentine
- D. Viola
Question 73
Read the following poem carefully and answer the questions that follow:
O stealing time, the subject of delay,
Delay the rack of unrefrained desire,
What strange design has thou my hopes to stay?
My hopes which do but to mine own aspire?
Old age is wise, and full of constant truth,
Old age well stayed from ranging humours lives,
Old age hath known, whatever was in youth,
Old age overcome the greater honour gives.
The mood of the poet is that of
- A. carelessness
- B. happiness
- C. gaiety
- D. helplessness
Question 74
Read the extract below and answer the question:
A : Let all the rest give place
(Exeunt Curio and attendants),
Once more, Cesario,
Get thee to yond same sovereign cruelty;
Tell her, my love, more noble than the world,
Prizes, not quantity of dirty land,
The parts that forune hath bestowed upon her,
Tell her, I hold as giddily as fortune,
But 'tis that miracles and queen of gems
that nature pranks her in, attracts my soul.
(Act ll Scene IV)
The mood of Speaker A in the above scene is one of
- A. sadness
- B. hope
- C. joy
- D. anxiety
Question 75
Read the extract below and answer the question:
A : Let all the rest give place
(Exeunt Curio and attendants),
Once more, Cesario,
Get thee to yond same sovereign cruelty;
Tell her, my love, more noble than the world,
Prizes, not quantity of dirty land,
The parts that forune hath bestowed upon her,
Tell her, I hold as giddily as fortune,
But 'tis that miracles and queen of gems
that nature pranks her in, attracts my soul.
(Act ll Scene IV)
The hero of the play is
- A. Antonio
- B. Sebastian
- C. Fabian
- D. Duke
