Literature in English JAMB, WAEC, NECO AND NABTEB Official Past Questions

Read the extract below and answer questions 41 to 45

X:  I pray thee, gentle mortal, sing again;

     Mine ear is much enamoured of thy note;

    So is mine eye enthralled to thy shape;

    And thy fair virtue’s force perforce doth move me

   On the first view, to say, to swear, I love thee.

Y:  Methinks, mistress, you should have little reason for that: …

(Act llI, Scene One, Lines 116-121)

Read the extract below and answer questions 41 to 45

X:  I pray thee, gentle mortal, sing again;

     Mine ear is much enamoured of thy note;

    So is mine eye enthralled to thy shape;

    And thy fair virtue’s force perforce doth move me

   On the first view, to say, to swear, I love thee.

Y:  Methinks, mistress, you should have little reason for that: …

(Act llI, Scene One, Lines 116-121)

Read the extract below and answer questions 41 to 45

X:  I pray thee, gentle mortal, sing again;

     Mine ear is much enamoured of thy note;

    So is mine eye enthralled to thy shape;

    And thy fair virtue’s force perforce doth move me

   On the first view, to say, to swear, I love thee.

Y:  Methinks, mistress, you should have little reason for that: …

(Act llI, Scene One, Lines 116-121)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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;

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;

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;

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;

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;

Read the poem below and answer questions 26 to 30.

We wear the mask that grins and lies,

It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,

This debt we pay to human guile;

With torn and bleeding hearts we smile

And mouths with myriad subtleties,

Why should the world be over-wise,

In counting all our tears and sighs?

Nay, let them only see us, while

We wear the mask.

We smile but O great god, our cries

To thee from tortured souls arise

We sing, but oh the clay is vile

Beneath our feet and long the mile,

But let the world dream otherwise,

We wear the mask!

Read the poem below and answer questions 26 to 30.

We wear the mask that grins and lies,

It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,

This debt we pay to human guile;

With torn and bleeding hearts we smile

And mouths with myriad subtleties,

Why should the world be over-wise,

In counting all our tears and sighs?

Nay, let them only see us, while

We wear the mask.

We smile but O great god, our cries

To thee from tortured souls arise

We sing, but oh the clay is vile

Beneath our feet and long the mile,

But let the world dream otherwise,

We wear the mask!

Read the poem below and answer questions 26 to 30.

We wear the mask that grins and lies,

It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,

This debt we pay to human guile;

With torn and bleeding hearts we smile

And mouths with myriad subtleties,

Why should the world be over-wise,

In counting all our tears and sighs?

Nay, let them only see us, while

We wear the mask.

We smile but O great god, our cries

To thee from tortured souls arise

We sing, but oh the clay is vile

Beneath our feet and long the mile,

But let the world dream otherwise,

We wear the mask!

Read the poem below and answer questions 26 to 30.

We wear the mask that grins and lies,

It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,

This debt we pay to human guile;

With torn and bleeding hearts we smile

And mouths with myriad subtleties,

Why should the world be over-wise,

In counting all our tears and sighs?

Nay, let them only see us, while

We wear the mask.

We smile but O great god, our cries

To thee from tortured souls arise

We sing, but oh the clay is vile

Beneath our feet and long the mile,

But let the world dream otherwise,

We wear the mask!

Read the poem below and answer questions 26 to 30.

We wear the mask that grins and lies,

It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,

This debt we pay to human guile;

With torn and bleeding hearts we smile

And mouths with myriad subtleties,

Why should the world be over-wise,

In counting all our tears and sighs?

Nay, let them only see us, while

We wear the mask.

We smile but O great god, our cries

To thee from tortured souls arise

We sing, but oh the clay is vile

Beneath our feet and long the mile,

But let the world dream otherwise,

We wear the mask!

Read the passage below and answer questions 21 to 25

When he was little, he would ask his mother. sometimes as he lay in the cold little room and looked up at her as she sat beside the bed stroking his hair why two boys from his class had thrown stones at a dog; or why on another occasion a gang of them had broken into an empty house, smashing the thick door which had curved mouldings on the front which had been turned by carpenters years before; or why he had ended up in a fight which had begun when a little girl had shouted names at him which made no sense about his house and his mother and others had joined in and he had rushed at them, scattering them as some shricked and some laughed and he flaied about with his hard little fists and tears in his eyes. His mother would smile, say ‘shhh’ and he would drift to sleep with the heart shape of her face imprinted on his mind.

Read the passage below and answer questions 21 to 25

When he was little, he would ask his mother. sometimes as he lay in the cold little room and looked up at her as she sat beside the bed stroking his hair why two boys from his class had thrown stones at a dog; or why on another occasion a gang of them had broken into an empty house, smashing the thick door which had curved mouldings on the front which had been turned by carpenters years before; or why he had ended up in a fight which had begun when a little girl had shouted names at him which made no sense about his house and his mother and others had joined in and he had rushed at them, scattering them as some shricked and some laughed and he flaied about with his hard little fists and tears in his eyes. His mother would smile, say ‘shhh’ and he would drift to sleep with the heart shape of her face imprinted on his mind.

Read the passage below and answer questions 21 to 25

When he was little, he would ask his mother. sometimes as he lay in the cold little room and looked up at her as she sat beside the bed stroking his hair why two boys from his class had thrown stones at a dog; or why on another occasion a gang of them had broken into an empty house, smashing the thick door which had curved mouldings on the front which had been turned by carpenters years before; or why he had ended up in a fight which had begun when a little girl had shouted names at him which made no sense about his house and his mother and others had joined in and he had rushed at them, scattering them as some shricked and some laughed and he flaied about with his hard little fists and tears in his eyes. His mother would smile, say ‘shhh’ and he would drift to sleep with the heart shape of her face imprinted on his mind.