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QuizMultiple Choice

Hamlet, Part 5: Characteristics of Elizabethan Drama

Question 4 • 26-27 Ignite English 12 NG KY-English Language Arts 12

Read the excerpt from Act III of Hamlet.Rosencrantz:The cease of majesty Dies not alone, but, like a gulf doth draw What’s near it with it; it is a massy wheel, Fix’d on the summit of the highest mount, To whose huge spokes ten thousand lesser things Are mortis’d and adjoin’d; which, when it falls, Each small annexment, petty consequence, Attends the boisterous ruin. Never alone Did the king sigh, but with a general groan.

Answer
T
The lives of saints are celebrated.
P
Political power is discussed.
R
Rosencrantz tells a Biblical story.
R
Rosencrantz recalls the details of his life.
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