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Question 572 • Career Explorations A

Read the passage from Act V of Hamlet. Hamlet: Let me see.—[Takes the skull.]—Alas! poor Yorick. I knew him, Horatio; a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy; he hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft.

Answer
A
anatomy.
B
death.
C
humor.
D
infatuation.

Explanation

Hamlet is holding Yorick’s skull and contrasting the lively man he remembers with what remains of him. His words show how death has taken away Yorick’s face and lips, so the passage focuses on death. The answer is death, not humor, even though Hamlet remembers Yorick as witty.

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