Waec Literature in English Past Questions and Answers

Question 581:

• WAEC 2007

Read the extract and answer the question
As thou art to thyself:
Such was the very armour he had on
When he the amitious Norway combated;
So frown'd he once, when , in an angry parle,
He smote the sledded Polacks on the ice....
(Act 1, Scene one, lines 59-63)
The passage conveys an atmosphere of

A. Peace
B. Celebration
C. War
D. Anxiety

Question 582:

• WAEC 2007

The subject of discussion is

A. Hamlet
B. The ghost
C. Claudius
D. Laertes

Question 583:

• WAEC 2007

Read the extract and answer the question
X : What is the matter?
Y : Save yourself, my lord:
The ocean, overpeering of his list,
Eats not the flats with more impetuous haste
Than young Laertes....
(Act 4, Scene five, lines 97-101)
Speaker x IS

A. A messenger
B. The King
C. The Queen
D. Laertes

Question 584:

• WAEC 2007

Read the extract and answer the question
X : What is the matter?
Y : Save yourself, my lord:
The ocean, overpeering of his list,
Eats not the flats with more impetuous haste
Than young Laertes....
(Act 4, Scene five, lines 97-101)
Speaker Y is

A. The Queen
B. Polonius
C. An attendant
D. Ophelia

Question 585:

• WAEC 2007

Read the extract and answer the question
X : What is the matter?
Y : Save yourself, my lord:
The ocean, overpeering of his list,
Eats not the flats with more impetuous haste
Than young Laertes....
(Act 4, Scene five, lines 97-101)
The characters who come on the scene shortly afterwards are

A. Laertes and the Danes
B. The Queen and Hamlet
C. Ophelia and the Danes
D. Hamlet and Laertes