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This question is based on William Shakespeare' s Twelfth Night.
Not yet old enough for a man, nor young enough for a boy; as a squash is before 't is with him a codling when 't is almost an apple; it is with him in standing water, between boy and man. He is very well-favoured, and he speaks very shrewishly; one would think his mother's milk were scarce out of him.
The images in the quotation above express the speaker' s

  • A. contempt and admiration
  • B. hatred and pity
  • C. contempt and disregard
  • D. disregard and pity
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This question is based on William Shakespeare' s Twelfth Night.
Come away, come away, death,
And in sad cypress let me be laid...
In the lines above, the character is

  • A. expressing his unhappiness about death
  • B. expressing his preference for a cypress coffin
  • C. lamenting over his unreciprocated love
  • D. wishing for death to come
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This question is based on William Shakespeare' s Twelfth Night.
Duke:
Be clamorous, and leap all civil bounds,
Rather than make unprofited return.
Duke's statement above to Cesario means that he should

  • A. make trouble to see Olivia
  • B. jump the fence to see Olivia
  • C. shout be seen and heard by Olivia
  • D. fortify himself against any denial to see Olivia
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This question is based on William Shakespeare'' s Twelfth Night.

The traditional verse from of speech as dialogue in Twelfth Night is used to symbolize the

  • A. impressiveness of the character
  • B. distinction between verse and prose
  • C. function of poetry in the play
  • D. traditionlity of the play
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This question is based on William Shakespeare' s Twelfth Night.
Twelfth Night is preoccupied with the juxtaposition of

  • A. death and disappointment
  • B. appearance and reality
  • C. life and disappointment
  • D. love and death
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