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Read the excerpt from Act IV of Hamlet.Claudius: Not that I think you did not love your father, But that I know love is begun by time, And that I see, in passages of proof, Time qualifies the spark and fire of it . . . That we would do, We should do when we would, for this 'would' changes, And hath abatements and delays as many As there are tongues, are hands, are accidents; And then this 'should' is like a spendthrift sigh, That hurts by easing. But, to the quick o' the ulcer; Hamlet comes back; what would you undertake To show yourself your father's son in deed More than in words?

A
encourages Laertes to seek revenge against Hamlet.
B
offers forgiveness for Laertes’s impulsive action.
C
suggests a peaceful resolution to Laertes’s conflict.
D
accepts the blame for Polonius’s death.
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Perspective is

A
a version or adaptation of a story.
B
a way of thinking about or seeing a situation.
C
the way a character is presented and developed.
D
the position from which a story is narrated.
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Which details give explicit examples of starvation during Elizabethan times? Select 5 options.

A
A miller’s daughter dies in her bed, weakened from lack of food.
B
A beggar boy from the Scottish Borders is found writhing in agony in the road and dies soon afterward “in great misery.”
C
Another “poor, hunger-starved beggar boy” is found in the street and carried into a house, where he dies.
D
A four-year-old local boy dies “for want of food and means,” as does his mother.
E
You hear the story of a man leaving his home and walking hundreds of miles in search of work or food and returning after a couple of months with sufficient money only to find that his wife and children have all since died.
F
Now you can see why so many people living in Kent in the 1590s walked there, as we have seen in Chapter Two.
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If Shakespeare kills the character of Hamlet, what dramatic convention would he be using?

A
conflict
B
stage directions
C
suspense
D
unhappy ending
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Which statements describe the central ideas of a text? Select three choices.

A
They explain helpful details.
B
They are the most important ideas in a text.
C
They give examples of key ideas.
D
They are supported by details.
E
They can be explicitly stated or implied.

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