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Antonio : Then let us both be sudden. Gonzalo : (Waking) Now, good angels Preserve the king! Alonso…
Antonio : Then let us both be sudden.
Gonzalo : (Waking) Now, good angels
Preserve the king!
Alonso : Why, how now? Ho! Awake?
Why are you drawn?
Wherefore this ghastly looking?
Gonzalo : What’s the matter?
Choose two of the passages from (a) to (c) and answer briefly the questions that follow:
(i)[1.0]
Where are the speakers? Briefly explain how they were at this place.
(ii)[2.0]
What does Antonio mean by “Then let us both be sudden”? What does he convince Sebastian to do?
(iii)[2.0]
What makes Gonzalo and Alonso wake up suddenly?
(iv)[2.0]
What reason do Sebastian and Antonio give for their strange behaviour?
(v)[2.0]
Which sounds had Gonzalo heard? What did the king’s party decide to do at the end of the scene?
(vi)[1.0]
Give the meanings of the following words as they are used in the context of the passage:
sudden, drawn
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From ISC 2021 Specimen English Literature Paper 1, question 1(b).