Waec Literature in English 2006 Past Questions and Answers

Question 41:

• 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 underlined statement illustrates

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

Question 42:

• 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 speaker is

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

Question 43:

• 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 person being discussed is

A. Voltimand
B. Hamlet
C. Ophelia
D. Rosencrantz

Question 44:

• 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 characters being addressed are

A. Marcellus and Horatio
B. Bernado and Francisco
C. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
D. Marcellus and Francisco

Question 45:

• 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 response given to this speech indicates that the attempt was

A. Unsuccesful
B. Successful
C. Progressing
D. Dangerous