Waec 2017 Literature in English Past Questions with Answers

Waec 2017 Literature in English Past Questions

Question 46:

WAEC 2017

Iago: Mere prattle without practice
Is all his soldiership, But he, Sir had the election;
And I, of whom his eyes had seen the proof
At Rhodes, at Cyprus, and on other grounds
.....must be belee'd and calmed
By debitor and creditor
(Act 1, Scene One, Lines 23-28)

The setting is_______

A. The Castle
B. Cyprus
C. A sea-port
D. Venice

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Question 47:

WAEC 2017

Speaker: My wife! My wife! My wife?
I have no wife,
O, insupportable! O heavy hour!
Me thinks it should be now a huge
Eclipse of Sun and Moon, and that
th'affrighted globe
(Act V, Scene Two, Lines 97-101)

The speaker is ________

A. Iago
B. Othello
C. Brabantio
D. Duke

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Question 48:

WAEC 2017

Speaker: My wife! My wife! My wife?
I have no wife,
O, insupportable! O heavy hour!
Me thinks it should be now a huge
Eclipse of Sun and Moon, and that
th'affrighted globe
(Act V, Scene Two, Lines 97-101)

The first two lines express the speaker's_____________

A. Loneliness
B. Fear
C. Confusion
D. Regret

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Question 49:

WAEC 2017

Speaker: My wife! My wife! My wife?
I have no wife,
O, insupportable! O heavy hour!
Me thinks it should be now a huge
Eclipse of Sun and Moon, and that
th'affrighted globe
(Act V, Scene Two, Lines 97-101)

The speaker has just_______________

A. Divorced his wife
B. Arrived home from war
C. Had a nightmare
D. Smothered his wife

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Question 50:

WAEC 2017

Speaker: My wife! My wife! My wife?
I have no wife,
O, insupportable! O heavy hour!
Me thinks it should be now a huge
Eclipse of Sun and Moon, and that
th'affrighted globe
(Act V, Scene Two, Lines 97-101)

The speech is provoked by______

A. Emilia's call
B. Iago's treachery
C. Cassio's confession
D. Desdemona's plea

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Waec Literature in English 2017 Past Questions and Answers

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