Waec Literature in English Past Questions and Answers

Question 986:

• WAEC 2013

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: The Tempest
Read the extract and answer the question
Thou liest, most ignorant monster! I am in case to justle a constable. Why, thou deboshed fish, thou, was there ever man a coward that hath drunk so much sack as I today. Wilt thou tell a monstrous lie, being but half a fish and half a monster?
(act 111, scene two lines 23-27)
The character addressed is

A. Trinculo
B. Stephano
C. Sebastian
D. Caliban

Question 987:

• WAEC 2013

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: The Tempest
Read the extract and answer the question
Thou liest, most ignorant monster! I am in case to justle a constable. Why, thou deboshed fish, thou, was there ever man a coward that hath drunk so much sack as I today. Wilt thou tell a monstrous lie, being but half a fish and half a monster?
(act 111, scene two lines 23-27)
The ''lie'' is that the speaker is a/an

A. Drunkard
B. Coward
C. Ass
D. Idiot

Question 988:

• WAEC 2013

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: The Tempest
Read the extract and answer the question
Thou liest, most ignorant monster! I am in case to justle a constable. Why, thou deboshed fish, thou, was there ever man a coward that hath drunk so much sack as I today. Wilt thou tell a monstrous lie, being but half a fish and half a monster?
(act 111, scene two lines 23-27)
The addressee asks that the speaker be

A. Punished severely
B. Hanged on a tree
C. Beaten to death
D. Bitten to death

Question 989:

• WAEC 2013

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: The Tempest
Read the extract and answer the question
Thou liest, most ignorant monster! I am in case to justle a constable. Why, thou deboshed fish, thou, was there ever man a coward that hath drunk so much sack as I today. Wilt thou tell a monstrous lie, being but half a fish and half a monster?
(act 111, scene two lines 23-27)
Later in the scene the addressee proposes a plot to

A. Make Trinculo king of the island
B. Kill prospero
C. Steal miranda
D. Rob prospero of his clothes

Question 990:

• WAEC 2013

Read the extract and answer the question
You are three men of sin, whom Destiny -
That hath to instrument this lower world
And what is in't - the never-surfeited sea
Hath caused to belch up you; and on this island,
Where man doth not inhabit - you 'mongst men
Being most unfit to live.
(Act 111, scene three lines 53-58)
The speaker is

A. Prospero
B. Miranda
C. Ariel
D. Gonzalo