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Question 1 • English Language Arts 12

Read the excerpt from Act III of Hamlet . . . . To die: to sleep; No more; and, by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, ’tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish’d. To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there’s the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause. What does this part of the soliloquy reveal about Hamlet?

Answer
A
He is distraught and unsure.
B
He is ready to move forward.
C
He is decisive and confident.
D
He is about to kill Claudius.
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