Waec Literature in English 2006 Past Questions and Answers

Question 46:

• WAEC 2006

Read the extract and answer the question
And can you, by no drift of circumstance,
Get from him why he puts on this confusion,
Grating so harshly all his days of quiet,
With turbulent and dangerous lunacy?
(Act Three, Scene I, lines 1-4)
The character being addressed is

A. Hamlet
B. Laertes
C. Ophelia
D. Horatio

Question 47:

• WAEC 2006

Read the extract and answer the question
Why, now you speak
Like a good child and a true gentleman.
That I am most sensible in grief for it,
It shall as level to your judgement pierceAs day does to your eye.
(Act Four Scene V, lines 128 - 133)
The speaker is

A. The king
B. The queen
C. The ghost
D. Polonius

Question 48:

• WAEC 2006

Read the extract and answer the question
Why, now you speak
Like a good child and a true gentleman.
That I am most sensible in grief for it,
It shall as level to your judgement pierceAs day does to your eye.
(Act Four Scene V, lines 128 - 133)
The underlined statement illustrates

A. Irony
B. Metaphor
C. Paradox
D. Simile

Question 49:

• WAEC 2006

Read the extract and answer the question
Why, now you speak
Like a good child and a true gentleman.
That I am most sensible in grief for it,
It shall as level to your judgement pierceAs day does to your eye.
(Act Four Scene V, lines 128 - 133)
The character who has just been murdered is

A. Hamlet
B. Gertrude
C. Polonius
D. Claudius

Question 50:

• WAEC 2006

Read the extract and answer the question
Why, now you speak
Like a good child and a true gentleman.
That I am most sensible in grief for it,
It shall as level to your judgement pierceAs day does to your eye.
(Act Four Scene V, lines 128 - 133)
This speech can be best be interpreted to mean

A. That the murder was an act of revenge
B. A denial of responsibility for the murder
C. That it is not easy to know who the murderer is
D. That the murderer is present on the scene