Hamlet, Part 1: An Introduction to Elizabethan Theater Answers

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Read the excerpt from Hamlet, Act I, Scene ii.[Hamlet:] Must I remember? why, she would hang on him, As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on; and yet, within a month, Let me not think on ’t: Frailty, thy name is woman!A little month; or ere those shoes were old With which she follow’d my poor father’s body, Like Niobe, all tears; why she, even she,— O God! a beast, that wants discourse of reason, Would have mourn’d longer,—married with mine uncle,My father’s brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules . . .

A
eager.
B
fickle.
C
loyal.
D
sickly.
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In Hamlet, Act I, Scene ii, which dramatic convention does Shakespeare employ most?

A
He inserts unexpected humor.
B
He introduces a major conflict.
C
He hints at a happy ending.
D
He resolves the earlier suspense.

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