2006 - WAEC Literature Past Questions and Answers - page 5
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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 Three, Scene I, lines 1-4)
The speaker is
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 Three, Scene I, lines 1-4)
The speaker is
A
Gertrude
B
Ophelia
C
Claudius
D
Polonius
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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 Three, Scene I, lines 1-4)
The person being discussed is
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 Three, Scene I, lines 1-4)
The person being discussed is
A
Voltimand
B
Hamlet
C
Ophelia
D
Rosencrantz
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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 Three, Scene I, lines 1-4)
The characters being addressed are
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 Three, Scene I, lines 1-4)
The characters being addressed are
A
Marcellus and Horatio
B
Bernado and Francisco
C
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
D
Marcellus and Francisco
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44
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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 Three, Scene I, lines 1-4)
The response given to this speech indicates that the attempt was
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 Three, Scene I, lines 1-4)
The response given to this speech indicates that the attempt was
A
unsuccesful
B
successful
C
progressing
D
dangerous
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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 Three, Scene I, lines 1-4)
The character being addressed is
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 Three, Scene I, lines 1-4)
The character being addressed is
A
Hamlet
B
Laertes
C
Ophelia
D
Horatio
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Why, now you speak
Like a good child and a true gentleman.
That I am most sensible in grief for it,
It shall as level to your judgement pierce
As day does to your eye.
(Act Four Scene V, lines 128 - 133)
The speaker is
Why, now you speak
Like a good child and a true gentleman.
That I am most sensible in grief for it,
It shall as level to your judgement pierce
As day does to your eye.
(Act Four Scene V, lines 128 - 133)
The speaker is
A
the king
B
the queen
C
the ghost
D
polonius
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Why, now you speak
Like a good child and a true gentleman.
That I am most sensible in grief for it,
It shall as level to your judgement pierce
As day does to your eye.
(Act Four Scene V, lines 128 - 133)
The underlined statement illustrates
Why, now you speak
Like a good child and a true gentleman.
That I am most sensible in grief for it,
It shall as level to your judgement pierce
As day does to your eye.
(Act Four Scene V, lines 128 - 133)
The underlined statement illustrates
A
irony
B
metaphor
C
paradox
D
simile
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Why, now you speak
Like a good child and a true gentleman.
That I am most sensible in grief for it,
It shall as level to your judgement pierce
As day does to your eye.
(Act Four Scene V, lines 128 - 133)
The character who has just been murdered is
Why, now you speak
Like a good child and a true gentleman.
That I am most sensible in grief for it,
It shall as level to your judgement pierce
As day does to your eye.
(Act Four Scene V, lines 128 - 133)
The character who has just been murdered is
A
Hamlet
B
Gertrude
C
Polonius
D
Claudius
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Why, now you speak
Like a good child and a true gentleman.
That I am most sensible in grief for it,
It shall as level to your judgement pierce
As day does to your eye.
(Act Four Scene V, lines 128 - 133)
This speech can be best be interpreted to mean
Why, now you speak
Like a good child and a true gentleman.
That I am most sensible in grief for it,
It shall as level to your judgement pierce
As day does to your eye.
(Act Four Scene V, lines 128 - 133)
This speech can be best be interpreted to mean
A
that the murder was an act of revenge
B
a denial of responsibility for the murder
C
that it is not easy to know who the murderer is
D
that the murderer is present on the scene
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Read the extract and answer the question
Why, now you speak
Like a good child and a true gentleman.
That I am most sensible in grief for it,
It shall as level to your judgement pierce
As day does to your eye.
(Act Four Scene V, lines 128 - 133)
The setting is
Why, now you speak
Like a good child and a true gentleman.
That I am most sensible in grief for it,
It shall as level to your judgement pierce
As day does to your eye.
(Act Four Scene V, lines 128 - 133)
The setting is
A
the graveyard
B
a platform in front of the castle
C
a room in Polonius house
D
a room in the castle
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