Waec Literature in English 2006 Past Questions and Answers

Question 36:

• WAEC 2006

During this speech

A. The palace soldiers arrived
B. Hamlet attacked the speaker
C. The queen fainted
D. A cock crowed

Question 37:

• WAEC 2006

Read the extract and answer the question
Y : Do you know me, my lord?
Z : Excellent well; you are a fishmonger
Y : Not I, my lord.
Z : Then I would you were so honest a man.
Y : Honest, my lord!
Z : Ay, sir; to be honest, as this world goes. Is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.
(Act Two, Scene II, lines 173-179)
Speakers Y and Z are

A. Polonius and Hamlet
B. Claudius and Laertes
C. Laertes and Horatio
D. Marcellus and Reynaldo

Question 38:

• WAEC 2006

Read the extract and answer the question
Y : Do you know me, my lord?
Z : Excellent well; you are a fishmonger
Y : Not I, my lord.
Z : Then I would you were so honest a man.
Y : Honest, my lord!
Z : Ay, sir; to be honest, as this world goes. Is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.
(Act Two, Scene II, lines 173-179)
Speaker Z's responses suggest that he is

A. Planning revenge
B. Pretending to be mad
C. Telling a lie
D. Preparing to commit suicide

Question 39:

• WAEC 2006

Read the extract and answer the question
Y : Do you know me, my lord?
Z : Excellent well; you are a fishmonger
Y : Not I, my lord.
Z : Then I would you were so honest a man.
Y : Honest, my lord!
Z : Ay, sir; to be honest, as this world goes. Is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.
(Act Two, Scene II, lines 173-179)
The two characters who just left this scene are

A. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
B. Hamlet and the ghost
C. The king and the question
D. Polonius and Ophelia

Question 40:

• WAEC 2006

Read the extract and answer the question
Y : Do you know me, my lord?
Z : Excellent well; you are a fishmonger
Y : Not I, my lord.
Z : Then I would you were so honest a man.
Y : Honest, my lord!
Z : Ay, sir; to be honest, as this world goes. Is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.
(Act Two, Scene II, lines 173-179)
Speaker Z thinks Y is

A. Very honest
B. As dishonest as most people
C. More dishonest than anyone
D. More dishonest than ten thousand people