question 11 (5 points)

the personification of frailty as a woman in line 18 creates the effect of

question 11 options:

pity for gertrude for being weak and old

anger toward shakespeare for belittling women

sadness for ophelia’s instability

disgust toward gertrude for giving in to her appetites

question 13 (5 points)

why is hamlet so upset with himself in the “o, what a rogue and peasant slave,” soliloquy?

question 13 options:

he was never given the opportunity to achieve his dreams of becoming an actor.

he is tormented by the question of whether or not to kill himself.

he can’t put thoughts and words into action while a group of actors can.

the love between his father and mother is gone.

He leaned his head against the wall; his eyes were shut, his hands clasped in each other, and his body seemed to be sustained in an upright position merely by the cellar-door against which he rested his left shoulder. the lethargy into which he was sunk seemed scarcely interrupted by my feeling his hand and his forehead. his throbbing temples and burning skin indicated a fever . . there was only one circumstance that hindered me from forming an immediate determination in what manner this person should be treated. my family consisted of my wife and a young child. our servant-maid had been seized, three days before, by the reigning malady, and, at her own request, had been conveyed to the hospital. we ourselves enjoyed good health, and were hopeful of escaping with our lives. our measures for this end had been cautiously taken and carefully adhered to. they did not consist in avoiding the receptacles of infection, for my office required me to go daily into the midst of them; nor in filling the house with the exhalations of gunpowder, vinegar, or tar. they consisted in cleanliness, reasonable exercise, and wholesome diet. who is the story’s first-person narrator

Read the passage. when i consider how my light is spent ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, and that one talent which is death to hide, lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent to serve therewith my maker, and present my true account, lest he returning chide; “doth god exact day labor, light denied? ” in line 7 of sonnet xix by john milton, the speaker asks, “doth god exact day labor, light denied? ” what does his question mean? why must god make us suffer to work? what shall one charge god to work in the dark? how does god expect him to work when he is blind? is god trying me?

Which members of the press did nixon say have been the hardest on him? a. the television news agencies. b. newspapers c. tabloids d. public radio !