FORM 4
LITTERATURE IN ENGLISH
Mark a horizontal line (-) to the corresponding answer from the alternative
A, B, C, D.
1. The expression ‘when the battle’s lost and won’ is an instance of the use of:
a) Irony c) Oxymora
b) Paradox d) Pun
2. The expression ’fair is foul and foul is fair’ is first spoken by:
a) The firs witch c) All the witches
b) The second witch d) The third witch
3. The play open with:
a) Gentle shower c) Heavy rainfall
b) Thunder and lightening d) Rainfall amidst sunshine
4. One of these titles is not mentioned in the prophecy of three witches; to
Macbeth and Banquo:
a) Glamis c) General
b) Cawdow d) King
5. One of the following is not a prophecy of the three witches:
a) Macbeth will be a thane c) Macbeth will kill to become
b) Macbeth will be a king king
d) Banquo’s son
6. ‘A little water clears off this deed’ these are the words of _______________to___________
a) Lady Macbeth to Macbeth c) Malcolm to MacDuff
b) Macbeth to lady Macbeth d) Macbeth to Banquo
7. Act one scene four opens with a discussion between Duncan and Malcolm about:
a) The aftermath of the battle c) Rewarding Macbeth
b) How to celebrate Scottish d) The execution of cawdow
victory
8. Which character discovers king Duncan’s dead body and alarms all the castle?
a) Macduff c) Macbeth
b) Lennox d) Banquo
9. The become fearful following the murder of Duncan and flee from Scotland
a) Macduff and Banquo b) Malcolm and Donalbain
c) Macduff and Malcolm d) Malcolm and Fleance
10. William Shakespeare was born in the year
a) 1606 c) 1564
b) 1506 d) 1654
SECTION B:
Answer one question:
SECTION A: Drama
Extract 1
A: That witch hath made them drunk hath made me bold; what hath quenched them
hath gwen me fire hark peace!
It was the owl that stricked the fatal bellman
Which give the stern’st goodnight. He is anout it
The doors are open; and the surfeited grooms do mock their charge with snores. I have
drugged their possets
That death and nature do content about them,
Whether they live or die.
B: (within) who’s there? What ho
A: A lack I am afraid they have awaked
And this done. The attempt and not the deed confound us
Hard I laid their daggers ready
He could not missem . Had he not resembled
My father as he slept. I had done it
QUESTIONS
1) Name speakers A and B, where are they? (3marks)
2) Give the meaning of the following words or expressions as used in the extract (8
marks)
i. Hatch quenched them; hatch given me fire (line 3)
ii. Grooms (line 6)
iii. Mock their charge (line 7)
iv. Confound use (line 3)
3) Who are them referred to in line 7 and who is the architect of the plan being
executed in the extract? (2marks)
4) Illustrate two characters traits of The speaker A in thus extract (4 marks)
5) Give the effectiveness of anyone literary device in this extract (2marks)
6) Give a detailed account of the rest of the scene from which this extract is taken (6
mks)
Extract 2
A: When shall we three meets again
In thunder, lightning or in rain
B: When the hurly burly’s done
When the battle lost and won
C: That will be ere the set of sun
A: Where the place
B: Upone the heath
C: There to meet with Macbeth
A: I come Greymalkin
B: Padlock calls
D: Fair is foul and foul is fair
Hover through the fog and filthy air
Questions
1) Identify speaker A and D. Where are they? (3 marks)
2) Give the stage directions of this scene not quoted in the extract (2 mks)
3) Give the meaning in context of the following words and expressions (8 mks)
i. Hurly-burly (line 3)
ii. Ere the set of sun (line 5)
iii. Heath (line 7)
iv. Fair is foul and foul is fair (line 11)
4) Quote and give the effectiveness of the use of any two literary devices in the
extract (3 mks)
5) Illustrate any one theme on the extract (2mks)
6) Give a detailed account of the first part of the scene that follows this extract
(7mks)
