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Hamlet, Part 4: Comparing and Contrasting Interpretations — Quiz

Question 6 • British Literature and Composition

Read the excerpt from Act III of Hamlet . The oppressor’s wrong, the proud man’s contumely, The pangs of dispriz’d love , the law’s delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin? What does Hamlet mean when he refers to the "pangs of dispriz’d love"?

Answer
A
passion
B
courtship
C
romance
D
heartache

Explanation

“Dispriz’d” means rejected or scorned, so “the pangs of dispriz’d love” are the pains a person feels when love is not returned or is rejected. That meaning matches D, heartache. The other choices describe love or courtship generally, not the suffering Hamlet is listing.

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