Question 33

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Hamlet

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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 the 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 One, Scene I, lines 128 - 139)

The speech was 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
Objective

Question details

Exam body
WAEC
Subject
Literature in English
Year
2006
Question no.
#33
Type
Objective

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