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WAEC - Literature In English (2021 - No. 44)

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)

Speaker Y is a member of

Theseus' retinue
Titania's retinue
the group of actors
the group of lovers

Explanation

Speaker Y is Bottom, a member of the group of Actors rehearsing for a play that they will be performing at Theseus' wedding. His face has just been transformed to that of an ass and has enchanted Titania, the queen of the fairies. This was planned by Oberon, Titania's husband, as part of his plot to get Titania to relinquish the Indian changeling boy to him. 

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