2011 - WAEC Literature Past Questions and Answers - page 4

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: The Tempest Read the extract and answer the question Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises, Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight, and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears; and sometime voices, That, if I then had waked after long sleep, Will make me sleep again.And then, in dreaming, The clouds methought would open, and show riches Ready to drop upon me; that, when I waked, I cried to dream again. (Act 111, scene two, lines 132-140) The speaker is

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: The Tempest Read the extract and answer the question Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises, Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight, and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears; and sometime voices, That, if I then had waked after long sleep, Will make me sleep again.And then, in dreaming, The clouds methought would open, and show riches Ready to drop upon me; that, when I waked, I cried to dream again. (Act 111, scene two, lines 132-140) The character addressed is

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: The Tempest Read the extract and answer the question Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises, Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight, and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears; and sometime voices, That, if I then had waked after long sleep, Will make me sleep again.And then, in dreaming, The clouds methought would open, and show riches Ready to drop upon me; that, when I waked, I cried to dream again. (Act 111, scene two, lines 132-140) The speaker is a

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: The Tempest Read the extract and answer the question Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises, Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight, and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears; and sometime voices, That, if I then had waked after long sleep, Will make me sleep again.And then, in dreaming, The clouds methought would open, and show riches Ready to drop upon me; that, when I waked, I cried to dream again. (Act 111, scene two, lines 132-140) What are 'noises' in the extract?

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: The Tempest Read the extract and answer the question Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises, Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight, and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears; and sometime voices, That, if I then had waked after long sleep, Will make me sleep again.And then, in dreaming, The clouds methought would open, and show riches Ready to drop upon me; that, when I waked, I cried to dream again. (Act 111, scene two, lines 132-140) Another character presents is

Read the extract and answer the question Faith, sir you need not fear. When we were boys, Who would believe that there were mountaineers Dew-lapped like bulls, whose throats had hanging at'em Wallets of flesh? or that there were such men Whose heads stood in their breasts? which now we find Each putter-out of five for one will bring us Good warrant of. (Act 111, scene Three, lines 44-49) The speaker is

Read the extract and answer the question Faith, sir you need not fear. When we were boys, Who would believe that there were mountaineers Dew-lapped like bulls, whose throats had hanging at'em Wallets of flesh? or that there were such men Whose heads stood in their breasts? which now we find Each putter-out of five for one will bring us Good warrant of. (Act 111, scene Three, lines 44-49) The character addressed is

Read the extract and answer the question Faith, sir you need not fear. When we were boys, Who would believe that there were mountaineers Dew-lapped like bulls, whose throats had hanging at'em Wallets of flesh? or that there were such men Whose heads stood in their breasts? which now we find Each putter-out of five for one will bring us Good warrant of. (Act 111, scene Three, lines 44-49) In the extract a _ is laid before them

Read the extract and answer the question Faith, sir you need not fear. When we were boys, Who would believe that there were mountaineers Dew-lapped like bulls, whose throats had hanging at'em Wallets of flesh? or that there were such men Whose heads stood in their breasts? which now we find Each putter-out of five for one will bring us Good warrant of. (Act 111, scene Three, lines 44-49) What happens to the spirits?

Read the extract and answer the question Tell me, heavenly bow, If Venus or her son, as thou dost know, Do now attend the queen? Since they did plot The means that dusky Dis my daughter got, Her and her blind boy's scandalled company I have forsworn. (Act IV, scene one lines 86-91) The speaker is