Waec Literature in English Past Questions and Answers

Question 791:

• 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 792:

• 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 793:

• 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 794:

• 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

Question 795:

• 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 enquiry is about

A. Hamlet
B. Laertes
C. Ophelia
D. Horatio