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Elizabethan Drama: The Tragedy of Hamlet — Test

Question 6 • English Language Arts 12

Read the excerpt from Hamlet . Claudius: Why to a public count I might not go, Is the great love the general gender bear him; Who, dipping all his faults in their affection, Would, like the spring that turneth wood to stone, Convert his gyves to graces; so that my arrows, Too slightly timber’d for so loud a wind, Would have reverted to my bow again, And not where I had aim’d them. Which conclusion about Claudius does the excerpt support?

Answer
A
He fears for Hamlet’s safety.
B
He is not a good hunter.
C
He is really on Hamlet’s side.
D
He is not a popular king.
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