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QuizMultiple Choice

Hamlet, Part 8: Themes — Unit test

Question 19 of 25 • SLAE 26-27 ENGLISH 12.1

Read the excerpt from the play within a play in Act III of Hamlet.Player Queen:O! confound the rest; Such love must needs be treason in my breast: In second husband let me be accurst; None wed the second but who kill’d the first.Hamlet:[Aside.] Wormwood, wormwood.Player Queen:The instances that second marriage move, Are base respects of thrift, but none of love; A second time I kill my husband dead, When second husband kisses me in bed.

Answer
t
treats women unkindly.
d
does not believe in true love.
i
is critical of his mother’s choices.
s
suspects his mother will kill Claudius.
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