Waec 2010 Literature Past Questions And Answers
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Hamlet
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Your leave and favour to return to France;
From whence though willingly I came to Denmark,
To show my duty in your coronation.
Yet now, I must confess, that duty done.
My thoughts and wishes bend again toward France
And bow them to your gracious leave and pardon.
(Act 1, Scene two, Lines 51 -57)
The speaker intends to return to
- A. the seaside
- B. the warfront
- C. denmark
- D. france
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If thou hast any sound, or use of voice,
Speak to me;
That may be any good thing to be grace to me,
Speak to me;
If thou art privy to thy country's fate,
Which, happily, foreknowing may avoid,
O, speak!
Or if thou has uphoarded in thy life
Extorted treasure in the womb of earth,
For which, they say, you spirits oft walk in death
Speak of it:
(Act 1 scene one, lines 129-139)
The speech is made after
- A. the killing of Polonius
- B. Hamlet's arrival at the palace
- C. the arrival of the players
- D. the appearance of the ghost
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Hamlet
Read the extract and answer the question
Your leave and favour to return to France;
From whence though willingly I came to Denmark,
To show my duty in your coronation.
Yet now, I must confess, that duty done.
My thoughts and wishes bend again toward France
And bow them to your gracious leave and pardon.
(Act 1, Scene two, Lines 51 -57)
The other character present at the scene is
- A. Rosencrantz
- B. Ophella
- C. Guildenstern
- D. Polonius
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Hamlet
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Do not forget: this visitation
Is but to what thy almost blunted purpose
But, look, amazement as thy mother sits:
O, step between her and her fighting soul:
(Act 111, scene four, lines 107 -110)
''fighting soul'' implies
- A. clear conscience
- B. hope
- C. fear
- D. guilty conscience
A poem written in praise of someone or something is
- A. a ballad
- B. an epic
- C. a sonnet
- D. an ode
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Hamlet
Read the extract and answer the question
Do not forget: this visitation
Is but to what thy almost blunted purpose
But, look, amazement as thy mother sits:
O, step between her and her fighting soul:
(Act 111, scene four, lines 107 -110)
The speaker is
- A. Claudius
- B. Ghost
- C. Gertrude
- D. Horatio
The limerick
- A. is written to be sung
- B. has a serious subject matter
- C. is always light and humorous
- D. uses lofty language
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Hamlet
Read the extract and answer the question
Do not forget: this visitation
Is but to what thy almost blunted purpose
But, look, amazement as thy mother sits:
O, step between her and her fighting soul:
(Act 111, scene four, lines 107 -110)
The speaker is
- A. Queen' s closet
- B. Queen's room
- C. hall
- D. palace
NON-AFRICAN POETRY
Examine the theme of rejected love in Marvel's "To His Coy Mistress".
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Read the poem and answer the question
What a morning!
The sound of guns was everywhere
The city was trapped,
I heave a mournful sigh- Rebels!
Boom Boom Boom!
The heart pants at the sound of the blast
Lord! When will all this end?
This is the fourth day.
You say you are free
Oh no, you are not
You are trapped-
A prisoner in your own home.
The song is everywhere.
What next?
Food - water - a hiding place
Far from the sound of the gun.
The second stanza refers to
- A. the uncertainty of life
- B. the pleasures of life
- C. the meaning of life
- D. the joys of life