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(Draft as of November 2008) HKDSE Literature in English Sample Questions for Paper 1 Section A Prose/Drama Analysis Answer EITHER question 1 OR question 2. 1. MACBETH ACT V SCENE V. – [Dunsinane. Within the castle.] Enter, with drum and colours, MACBETH, SEYTON, and Soldiers. Macb. Hang out our banners on the outward walls; The cry is still, ‘They come!’ Our castle’s strength Will laugh a siege to scorn: here let them lie, Till famine and the ague eat them up. 5 Were they not forc’d with those that should be ours, We might have met them dareful, beard to beard, And beat them backward home. What is that noise? Sey. It is the cry of women, my good Lord. Macb. I have almost forgot the taste of fears. 10 The time has been by senses would have cool’d To hear a night-shriek; and my fell of hair Would at a dismal treatise rouse, and stir, As life were in’t. I have supp’d full with horrors: Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts, 15 Cannot once start me. Wherefore was that cry? Sey. The Queen, my Lord, is dead. Macb. She should have died hereafter: There would have been a time for such a word. – 20 To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace fro