Waec Literature in English 2010 Past Questions and Answers

Question 46:

• WAEC 2010

Read the extract and answer the question
If thou hast any sound, or use of voice,
Speak to me;
That may be any good thing to be grace to me,
Speak to me;
If thou art privy to thy country's fate,
Which, happily, foreknowing may avoid,
O, speak!
Or if thou has uphoarded in thy life
Extorted treasure in the womb of earth,
For which, they say, you spirits oft walk in death
Speak of it:
(Act 1 scene one, lines 129-139)
During the speech,

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

Question 47:

• WAEC 2010

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 111, scene one line, 1-4)
The speaker is

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

Question 48:

• WAEC 2010

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 111, scene one line, 1-4)
The character being discussed is

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

Question 49:

• WAEC 2010

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 111, scene one line, 1-4)
The character being addressed are

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

Question 50:

• WAEC 2010

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 111, scene one line, 1-4)
The response given to this speech indicates that the attempt was

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