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WAEC - Literature In English (2021 - No. 34)

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;

Both speakers are in the woods

to hide from each other
to spy on each other
for different reasons
for the same reason

Explanation

In the extract from A Midsummer Night's Dream, Speaker X and Speaker Y are Demetrius and Helena respectively.

In the play, Demetrius and Helena are in the woods, and Lysander is speaking to Helena. He is warning her about the dangers of trusting someone who does not love her (as he is in love with Hermia, who is in love with Lysander), and the dangers of being in the woods at night.

Helena, on the other hand, is speaking to Demetrius. In her reply, she tries to defend the situation by arguing that it is not truly night when she sees his face, implying that everything seems better when she is with him, even in the dark woods. She is in love with Demetrius. 

While Demetrius is in the woods in search of Hermia, who has eloped with Lysander, Helena is there to go after Demetrius as she is deeply in love with him This suggests that they are in the woods for different reasons. 

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