Read the excerpt from The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England. There is no concept of "health and safety" in Elizabethan England, so you will inevitably feel vulnerable when you arrive. Nauseating smells and sights will assail your senses; contemporary standards of cleanliness will worry you. People die every day from unknown ailments, the young as often as the old. Infectious diseases periodically kill thousands within a few weeks. Even when plague is not in town, it lurks as an anxiety in the back of people’s minds and, when it does strike, their worry turns to terror. On top of the illnesses, the chances of being attacked and hurt are much higher than in the modern world, and workplace injuries are far more common. What is the topic of this paragraph?
Read the passage from Hamlet, Act I, Scene iii. Laertes: For he himself is subject to his birth; He may not, as unvalu’d persons do, Carve for himself, for on his choice depends The safety and the health of the whole state; And therefore must his choice be circumscrib’d Unto the voice and yielding of that body Whereof he is the head . Shakespeare most likely chose the word head instead of the word leader because it
Read the passage from Hamlet, Act I, Scene iii. Hamlet : ... but tell Why thy canoniz’d bones, hearsed in death, Have burst their cerements; why the sepulchre, Wherein we saw thee quietly inurn’d, (55) Hath op’d his ponderous and marble jaws, To cast thee up again. What may this mean, That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel Revisit’st thus the glimpses of the moon ... Which phrases provide clues that sepulchre means "grave”? Choose three correct answers.
Read the excerpt from Hamlet . Gertrude: O Hamlet! speak no more; Thou turn’st mine eyes into my very soul; And there I see such black and grained spots As will not leave their tinct. Hamlet: Nay, but to live In the rank sweat of an enseamed bed, Stew’d in corruption, honeying and making love Over the nasty sty,— Gertrude: O! speak to me no more; These words like daggers enter in mine ears; No more, sweet Hamlet! The excerpt supports the conclusion that Gertrude
Read the excerpt from an analysis of Act III of Hamlet . The fight between Hamlet and Gertrude reinforces gender stereotypes, as Hamlet judges Gertrude and she accepts his criticism without attempting to justify her actions. Which excerpt provides the best evidence to support the analysis?
Read the passage from Hamlet, Act III, Scene iv. Gertrude: What wilt thou do? thou wilt not murder me? Help, help, ho! Polonius: [Behind.] What, ho! help! help! help! Hamlet: [Draws.] How now! a rat? Dead, for a ducat, dead! [Makes a pass through the arras.] Polonius: [Behind.] O! I am slain. Gertrude: O me! what hast thou done? Hamlet: Nay, I know not: is it the king? Gertrude: O! what a rash and bloody deed is this! Which element of tragedy does Shakespeare most develop in this passage?
Read the excerpt from Act III of Hamlet . Ophelia: My lord, I have remembrances of yours, That I have longed long to re-deliver; I pray you, now receive them. Read the adaptation of the excerpt. Ophelia: I have some things here that I want to return to you. Please, take them back. What choice did the writer of this adaptation make?
Read the excerpt from Act III of Hamlet . For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, The oppressor’s wrong, the proud man’s contumely, The pangs of dispriz’d love, the law’s delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin? Based on this part of the soliloquy, which best describes Hamlet’s perception of life?
Read the passage. Contemporary historian Ian Mortimer showcases his historical expertise in the nonfiction book The Time Traveler’s Guide to Elizabethan England . Other people have created monotonous historical essays, but Mortimer has written an amusing and engrossing book. Which is the best phrase to eliminate because it is neither precise nor domain specific?
Which words contain an affix? Choose three correct answers.
A reader using a historical lens to analyze a text will be most concerned with
Read the excerpt from The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England . In 1574 the city authorities are given powers to restrict playhouses, forcing the actors to find new premises in the suburbs. This becomes a golden opportunity for John Brayne and his brother-in-law, James Burbage, who in 1576 build a new theater, simply called The Theatre, at Shoreditch, just half a mile north of Bishopsgate. The following year a second theater, the Curtain, is built just two hundred yards away. Despite some heavy opposition from Puritan preachers and moralists, both theaters are successful. Which event happened third?
Read the passage from The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England . It is unlikely that you will be hanged for taking a wild animal such as a rabbit; but, even so, you will get a fine amounting to three times the value of the animal as well as three months in prison, and you will have to enter into a bond to guarantee your good behavior in the future; a second offense will be treated more harshly. Which statement best describes how the author’s use of second-person point of view affects readers?
Read the excerpt from The Time Traveler’s Guide to Elizabethan England . Rich landowners do not normally sell their grain immediately after the harvest is in, when prices are low; instead they store it until the numerous small-scale producers have sold all theirs and prices go up again. Pig farmers keep their flitches of bacon back in storage until they can get a better price for them later in the winter. Such tactics are made even more profitable by the unhappy fact that harvests can fail, causing local—and sometimes national—food shortages. What inference can be made about both rich landowners and pig farmers, based on this excerpt?
Read the excerpt from the Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson. We, therefore, the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by the Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States. . How does Jefferson use ethos as a rhetorical appeal?
Read the excerpt from "A Modest Proposal." I profess, in the sincerity of my heart, that I have not the least personal interest in endeavouring to promote this necessary work, having no other motive than the publick good of my country, by advancing our trade, providing for infants, relieving the poor, and giving some pleasure to the rich. I have no children, by which I can propose to get a single penny; the youngest being nine years old, and my wife past child-bearing. Which statement best describes how irony is used in this excerpt?
Which sentences correctly use quotations from "A Modest Proposal"? Choose three correct answers.
Read the line from Grendel . I was safe in my tree, and the men who fought were nothing to me, except of course that they talked in something akin to my language, which meant that we were, incredibly, related. This is an example of a
Read the excerpt from Act I of Hamlet . Ghost: Upon my secure hour thy uncle stole, With juice of cursed hebona in a vial, And in the porches of mine ears did pour The leperous distilment; whose effect Holds such an enmity with blood of man That swift as quicksilver it courses through The natural gates and alleys of the body. Which correctly analyzes the use of figurative language in the excerpt?
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