Waec Literature in English Past Questions and Answers

Question 1551:

• WAEC 2021

A Midsummer Night's Read the extract below and answer questions 31 to 35.
X: You do impeach your modesty too much,
To leave the city and commit yourself
Into the hands of one that loves you not;
To trust the opportunity of night
And the ill counsel of a desert place

Y: With the rich worth of your virginity.
Your virtue is my privilege: for that
it is not night when I do see your face,
Therefore I think I am not in the night;


Speaker X sees Speaker Y

A. As a pretender
B. As a past lover
C. For the first time
D. For the last time

Question 1552:

• WAEC 2021

A Midsummer Night's Read the extract below and answer questions 31 to 35.
X: You do impeach your modesty too much,
To leave the city and commit yourself
Into the hands of one that loves you not;
To trust the opportunity of night
And the ill counsel of a desert place

Y: With the rich worth of your virginity.
Your virtue is my privilege: for that
it is not night when I do see your face,
Therefore I think I am not in the night;


Both speakers are in the woods

A. To hide from each other
B. To spy on each other
C. For different reasons
D. For the same reason

Question 1553:

• WAEC 2021

A Midsummer Night's Read the extract below and answer questions 31 to 35.
X: You do impeach your modesty too much,
To leave the city and commit yourself
Into the hands of one that loves you not;
To trust the opportunity of night
And the ill counsel of a desert place

Y: With the rich worth of your virginity.
Your virtue is my privilege: for that
it is not night when I do see your face,
Therefore I think I am not in the night;


Night evolves in the speakers'

A. Huge responsibilities
B. Contracting feelings
C. Despairing thoughts
D. Erotic feelings

Question 1554:

• WAEC 2021

Read the extract below and answer questions 36 to 40
But, masters, here are our parts, and I am to entreat you, request you, and desire you, to con them by to-morrow night; and meet me in the place wood, a mile without the town, by moonlight. There will we rehearse: for if we meet in the city, we shall be dogged with company, and Our devices known.
(Act I, Scene two Lines 79-84)


The speaker is ____________

A. Bottom
B. Peaseblossom
C. Quince
D. Puck

Question 1555:

• WAEC 2021

Read the extract below and answer questions 36 to 40
But, masters, here are our parts, and I am to entreat you, request you, and desire you, to con them by to-morrow night; and meet me in the place wood, a mile without the town, by moonlight. There will we rehearse: for if we meet in the city, we shall be dogged with company, and Our devices known.
(Act I, Scene two Lines 79-84)


The speaker is addressing ____________

A. Artists
B. Painters
C. Actors
D. Writers