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Hamlet, Part 5: Characteristics of Elizabethan Drama — Quiz

Question 6 • English Language Arts 12

Read the excerpt from Act III of Hamlet . Hamlet: O God, your only jig-maker. What should a man do but be merry? for, look you, how cheerfully my mother looks, and my father died within’s two hours. Ophelia: Nay, ’tis twice two months, my lord. Hamlet: So long? Nay, then, let the devil wear black, for I’ll have a suit of sables. O heavens! die two months ago, and not forgotten yet? Then there’s hope a great man’s memory may outlive his life half a year; but, by ’r lady, he must build churches then, or else shall he suffer not thinking on, with the hobby-horse, whose epitaph is, ‘For, O! for, O! the hobby-horse is forgot.’ How does the excerpt exemplify Elizabethan drama?

Answer
A
by praising the lives of saints
B
by exploring human emotions
C
by addressing political policies
D
by referencing Biblical concepts
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