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Read the excerpt from Act III of Hamlet.Gertrude: O! speak to me no more; These words like daggers enter in mine ears; No more, sweet Hamlet!Hamlet: A murderer, and a villain; A slave that is not twentieth part the tithe Of your precedent lord; a vice of kings; A cut-purse of the empire and the rule, That from a shelf the precious diadem stole, And put it in his pocket! Gertrude: No more!

A
Shakespeare uses a motif of ears and hearing to emphasize the importance of communication.
B
Jewels were an important symbol of power in Shakespeare’s time and would be significant to his audience.
C
Although she is queen, Gertrude is caught between her powerful husband and bitter son.
D
The text of these lines includes many royal titles that reinforce a theme of power.
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Read the excerpt from Act II of Hamlet.Hamlet: Am I not i’ the right, old Jephthah?Polonius: If you call me Jephthah, my lord, I have a daughter that I love passing well.

A
Polonius is sacrificing his daughter to trick Hamlet.
B
Polonius is a better father than Hamlet’s father was.
C
Polonius is very protective of his innocent daughter.
D
Polonius is very loyal to the royal family of Denmark.
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Read the excerpt from Hamlet, Act I, Scene ii.[Exeunt all except HAMLET.]Hamlet: O! that this too too solid flesh would melt, Thaw and resolve itself into a dew; Or that the Everlasting had not fix’d His canon ’gainst self-slaughter! O God! O God! How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world. Fie on ’t! O fie! ’tis an unweeded garden, That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature Possess it merely. That it should come to this!

A
By leaving Hamlet alone on stage, the audience learns how truly upset he is.
B
When everyone leaves, it shows how the rest of the family shuns Hamlet.
C
Having just Hamlet on the stage makes him the most appealing character.
D
When the audience sees Hamlet by himself they assume he has no friends.
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Read the excerpt from Act II of Hamlet.Guildenstern: Happy in that we are not over happy; On Fortune’s cap we are not the very button.Hamlet: Nor the soles of her shoe?Rosencrantz: Neither, my lord.

A
delight
B
prosperity
C
fashion
D
footwear
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Read the excerpt from Act III of Hamlet.Rosencrantz:My lord, you once did love me.Hamlet:So I do still, by these pickers and stealers.Rosencrantz:Good my lord, what is your cause of distemper? you do surely bar the door upon your own liberty, if you deny your griefs to your friend.Hamlet:Sir, I lack advancement.Rosencrantz:How can that be when you have the voice of the king himself for your succession in Denmark? Hamlet: Ay, sir, but ‘While the grass grows,’—the proverb is something musty.

A
his loyalty to his ally endures hardship.
B
his erratic behavior confuses his friend.
C
his desire for revenge defines him.
D
his quest for political power is unwavering.
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Read the excerpt from Act III of Hamlet.. . . To die: to sleep; No more; and, by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, ’tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish’d. To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there’s the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause.

A
He is distraught and unsure.
B
He is decisive and confident.
C
He is ready to move forward.
D
He is about to kill Claudius.
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Which ideas describe a round character? Select three answers.

A
The character experiences a variety of human emotions.
B
The character represents a single idea or concept.
C
The character possesses a complex personality.
D
The character acts as a predictable personality type.
E
The character grows or develops over the course of a play.
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Read the excerpt from Act I of Hamlet.Hamlet: What hour now? Horatio: I think it lacks of twelve. Marcellus: No, it is struck.

A
I think it is exactly twelve.
B
I think it is after twelve.
C
I think twelve will never come.
D
I think it is before twelve.
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Read the excerpt from Act II of Hamlet.Remorseless, treacherous, lecherous, kindless villain! O! vengeance!

A
a metaphor.
B
a simile.
C
an apostrophe.
D
personification.
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Which statements describe the rising action of a tragedy’s plot? Select 2 options.

A
A series of events develop the plot’s central conflict.
B
Loose ends of the plot are “tied up” to provide closure.
C
Suspense builds gradually as the plot progresses.
D
Background information is provided and the play’s setting is revealed.
E
Tension reaches its height in the plot, and a solution to a conflict becomes clear.
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Read the excerpt from Act III of Hamlet.Hamlet:Now might I do it pat, now he is praying; And now I’ll do ’t: and so he goes to heaven; And so am I reveng’d. That would be scann’d: A villain kills my father; and for that, I, his sole son, do this same villain send To heaven. Why, this is hire and salary, not revenge. He took my father grossly, full of bread, With all his crimes broad blown, as flush as May; And how his audit stands who knows save heaven? But in our circumstance and course of thought ’Tis heavy with him. And am I then reveng’d, To take him in the purging of his soul, When he is fit and season’d for his passage? No.

A
Hamlet wants to avenge his father’s death, but he doubts Claudius’s guilt.
B
Hamlet wants to commit murder, but he worries about his own fate.
C
Hamlet wants to kill Claudius, but he wants to be sure Claudius will suffer.
D
Hamlet wants to end Claudius’s life, but he realizes he is incapable of violence.
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Which statements describe Elizabethan drama? Select two answers.

A
Plays address secular themes.
B
Miracle plays tell the stories of Christian saints.
C
Actors portray emotions that reflect life experiences.
D
Plays include Biblical characters in present-day settings.
E
Flat characters represent single concepts, such as “justice.”
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A
act
B
drama
C
line
D
scene
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Read the excerpt from Act II of Hamlet.Hamlet: Then I would you were so honest a man. Polonius: Honest, my lord! Hamlet: Ay, sir; to be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.

A
It is very rare to be an honest person in this world.
B
Most people in the world just don’t want to be honest.
C
Honest people don’t show up in the world too often.
D
Honesty is an overrated virtue in the world.
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A
development
B
purpose
C
summarization
D
topic

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