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Read the excerpt from Act II of Hamlet.Could force his soul so to his own conceit That from her working all his visage wann’d, Tears in his eyes, distraction in ’s aspect, A broken voice, and his whole function suiting With forms to his conceit? and all for nothing! For Hecuba!

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is irritated by the actor’s emotional performance of the speech.
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is impressed by the actor’s ability to cry for a fictional character.
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wishes the actor had shown more emotion during the speech.
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feels that the actor does not know who Hecuba really was.
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Read the excerpt from Act II of Hamlet.Hamlet: My excellent good friends! How dost thou, Guildenstern? Ah, Rosencrantz! Good lads, how do ye both?Rosencrantz: As the indifferent children of the earth.

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It emphasizes that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Hamlet’s good friends.
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It shows that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are innocent characters.
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It reveals that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern have been friends since childhood.
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It uses a strong image to show that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are sneaky.
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Read the excerpt from Act II of Hamlet.Guildenstern: Prison, my lord!Hamlet: Denmark’s a prison.Rosencrantz: Then is the world one.Hamlet: A goodly one; in which there are many confines, wards, and dungeons, Denmark being one o’ the worst.

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It indicates that Hamlet feels trapped.
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It reveals that Hamlet is being forced to stay.
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It proves that Hamlet’s father was killed.
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It shows that Hamlet imagined the ghost.
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Read the excerpt from Act II of Hamlet.A dull and muddy-mettled rascal, peak, Like John-a-dreams, unpregnant of my cause, And can say nothing; no, not for a king, Upon whose property and most dear life A damn’d defeat was made. Am I a coward? Who calls me villain? breaks my pate across? Plucks off my beard and blows it in my face? Tweaks me by the nose? gives me the lie i’ the throat, As deep as to the lungs? Who does me this?

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A dull and muddy-mettled rascal, peak, Like John-a-dreams, unpregnant of my cause,
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And can say nothing; no, not for a king, Upon whose property and most dear life
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A damn’d defeat was made. Am I a coward? Who calls me villain? breaks my pate across?
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Plucks off my beard and blows it in my face? Tweaks me by the nose? gives me the lie i’ the throat,
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Read the excerpt from Act II of Hamlet.I have of late,—but wherefore I know not,—lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o’erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me but a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.

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The metaphors prove that Hamlet is angry with his mother.
B
The metaphors show that Hamlet is still feeling hopeful.
C
The metaphors reveal Hamlet’s plan to murder Claudius.
D
The metaphors emphasize Hamlet’s state of depression.
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The allusion highlights the idea of avenging a father’s murder.
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The allusion proves that Pyrrhus killed Hamlet’s father.
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The allusion emphasizes the idea of a mother’s betrayal.
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The allusion suggests that Hamlet imagined his father’s ghost.
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Read the excerpt from Act II of Hamlet. Hamlet: Slanders, sir: for the satirical rogue says here that old men have grey beards, that their faces are wrinkled, their eyes purging thick amber and plum-tree gum, and that they have a plentiful lack of wit, together with most weak hams: all which, sir, though I most powerfully and potently believe, yet I hold it not honesty to have it thus set down; for you yourself, sir, should be old as I am, if, like a crab, you could go backward.

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old men have grey beards, that their faces are wrinkled
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their eyes purging thick amber and plum-tree gum
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all which, sir, though I most powerfully and potently believe
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be old as I am, if, like a crab, you could go backward
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Read the excerpt from Act II of Hamlet.The rugged Pyrrhus, like the Hyrcanian beast,— ’tis not so, it begins with Pyrrhus:— The rugged Pyrrhus, he, whose sable arm, Black as his purpose, did the night resemble When he lay couched in the ominous horse,

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Hamlet does not believe that Claudius killed his father.
B
Hamlet is still undecided about avenging his father’s death.
C
Hamlet is shocked by Pyrrhus’s merciless behavior.
D
Hamlet admires Pyrrhus and wants to follow his example.
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Read the excerpt from Act II of Hamlet.When she saw Pyrrhus make malicious sport In mincing with his sword her husband’s limbs, The instant burst of clamour that she made— Unless things mortal move them not at all— Would have made milch the burning eyes of heaven, And passion in the gods.Hecuba is a figure in Greek mythology who was married to King Priam. In the excerpt, she is shown grieving for her dead husband.

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that Hecuba was too emotional when she saw her husband’s dead body
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that Hecuba was determined to take revenge for the death of Priam
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that Hecuba properly mourned the death of her beloved husband
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that Hecuba did not show enough emotion after Priam was killed
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Read the excerpt from Act II of Hamlet.Admit no messengers, receive no tokens. Which done, she took the fruits of my advice; And he, repulsed,—a short tale to make,— Fell into a sadness, then into a fast,

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Admit no messengers, receive no tokens.
B
Which done, she took the fruits of my advice;
C
And he, repulsed,—a short tale to make,—
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Fell into a sadness, then into a fast,

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