WAEC Literature in English 2010 Objective — Question 45
Question 45 of 50 from the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) Literature in English 2010 Objective paper, with the correct answer and a full explanation.
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[Extract, Act 1 Scene One, Lines 129-139] "If thou hast any sound, or use of voice, / Speak to me: / If there be any good thing to be done, / That may to thee do ease and 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 have uphoarded in thy life / Extorted treasure in the womb of earth, / For which, they say, you spirit walk: in death / Speak of it:" Read the extract and answer questions 41-45. During the speech,
- A. A. the palace soldiers arrived
- B. B. Hamlet attacked the speaker
- C. C. the queen fainted
- D. D. the cock crowedCorrect
Explanation
During this scene, the cock crows, and the Ghost begins to vanish, as ghosts were traditionally said to depart at dawn/cockcrow. (Note: per the source's own notice, the WAEC syllabus changed the year this paper was set, and only the General Literary Principles/Appreciation questions [1-30] had official published answers; this Hamlet section [31-50] answer and explanation are derived from the play's text itself.)
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