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Y : Do you know me, my lord?
Z : Excellent well; you are a fishmonger
Y : Not I, my lord.
Z : Then I would you were so honest a man.
Y : Honest, my lord!
Z : Ay, sir; to be honest, as this world goes. Is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.
(Act Two, Scene II, lines 173-179)

506

The two characters who just left this scene are

  • A. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
  • B. Hamlet and the ghost
  • C. The king and the question
  • D. Polonius and Ophelia
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507

Speaker Z thinks Y is

  • A. very honest
  • B. as dishonest as most people
  • C. more dishonest than anyone
  • D. more dishonest than ten thousand people
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508

The underlined statement illustrates

  • A. metaphor
  • B. simile
  • C. hyperbole
  • D. irony
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And can you, by no drift of circumstance,

Get from him why he puts on this confusion.

Grating so harshly all his days of quiet,

with turbulent and dangerous lunacy?

(Act 3; Scene 1, lines 1-4)

509

The speaker is

  • A. Gertrude
  • B. Ophelia
  • C. Claudius
  • D. Polonius
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510

The person being discussed is

  • A. Voltimand
  • B. Hamlet
  • C. Ophelia
  • D. Rosencrantz
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