WAEC - Literature In English (1998 - No. 84)
Read the extract below and answer questions:
A : Would you'd pardon me
I do not without danger walk these streets;
Once, in a sea-fight against the Count his galleys,
I did some service-of such note, indeed.
That were I ta'en here
It would scarce be answered
B : Be like you slew great number of his people
A : The offence is not of such a bloody nature,
Albeit the quality of the time and quarrel
Might well have given us bloody argument
(Act III Scene III)
The Count referred to in the extract is
A : Would you'd pardon me
I do not without danger walk these streets;
Once, in a sea-fight against the Count his galleys,
I did some service-of such note, indeed.
That were I ta'en here
It would scarce be answered
B : Be like you slew great number of his people
A : The offence is not of such a bloody nature,
Albeit the quality of the time and quarrel
Might well have given us bloody argument
(Act III Scene III)
The Count referred to in the extract is
Orsino
Sir Andrew
Toby
Malvolio
Explanation
In the context of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, "the Count" refers to Orsino, who is the Duke of Illyria. The extract mentions a sea fight against the Count's galleys, which suggests a battle involving Orsino, as he is the noble character in the play associated with leadership and power. Sir Andrew, Toby, and Malvolio do not have a context of military leadership or involvement in sea fights in this scene.
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