Year : 
2021
Title : 
Literature in English
Exam : 
WASSCE/WAEC MAY/JUNE

Paper 1 | Objectives

31 - 40 of 50 Questions

# Question Ans

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;

31.

Speaker X is

A. Hermia

B. Philostrate

C. Demetrius

D. Lysander

C

32.

Speaker Y is

A. Titania

B. Pease blossom

C. Hippolyta

D. Helena

D

33.

Speaker X sees Speaker Y

A. as a pretender

B. as a past lover

C. for the first time

D. for the last time

B

34.

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

C

35.

Night evolves in the speakers'

A. huge responsibilities

B. contracting feelings

C. despairing thoughts

D. erotic feelings

B

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)

36.

The speaker is A. Bottom B. PeaseblossomC.

A. Bottom

B. Peaseblossom

C. Quince

D. Puck

C

37.

The speaker is addressing

A. artists

B. painters

C. actors

D. writers

C

38.

They intend to rehearse the play

A. a Midsummer Night's Dream

B. Pyramus and Thisby

C. The tradegy of lovers

D. The Battle of Royal

B

39.

The rehearsal is in preparation for

A. Egeus' acceptance of Lysander

B. the dance of the faries

C. Theseus' wedding

D. Titania waking up from a dream

C

40.

The main actors will be

A. Snug and Snout

B. Philostrate and Starveling

C. Mustardseed

D. Quince and Bottom

D

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;

31.

Speaker X is

A. Hermia

B. Philostrate

C. Demetrius

D. Lysander

C

32.

Speaker Y is

A. Titania

B. Pease blossom

C. Hippolyta

D. Helena

D

33.

Speaker X sees Speaker Y

A. as a pretender

B. as a past lover

C. for the first time

D. for the last time

B

34.

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

C

35.

Night evolves in the speakers'

A. huge responsibilities

B. contracting feelings

C. despairing thoughts

D. erotic feelings

B

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)

36.

The speaker is A. Bottom B. PeaseblossomC.

A. Bottom

B. Peaseblossom

C. Quince

D. Puck

C

37.

The speaker is addressing

A. artists

B. painters

C. actors

D. writers

C

38.

They intend to rehearse the play

A. a Midsummer Night's Dream

B. Pyramus and Thisby

C. The tradegy of lovers

D. The Battle of Royal

B

39.

The rehearsal is in preparation for

A. Egeus' acceptance of Lysander

B. the dance of the faries

C. Theseus' wedding

D. Titania waking up from a dream

C

40.

The main actors will be

A. Snug and Snout

B. Philostrate and Starveling

C. Mustardseed

D. Quince and Bottom

D