I have truncated some long dialogues, to promote easy reading and comprehension. Errors, if any, are mine.
Fill up the blanks, selecting appropriate words from the Choice Box.
SELECTION BOX: (10 words)
circumscribed , circumstances ,
determination ,
encompassment , entertainment ,
imperfections , indifferently , inventorially ,
transformation ,
unproportioned .
Phrase/Clause/Sentence- BOX:
* His choice must be ____ unto the voice and yielding of that body. ANSWER .
HINT:Laertes and Ophelia talk about Hamlet. Limited, confined etc.
*Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel But do not dull thy palm with ____ Of each new-hatch’d unfledged comrade. ANSWER .
HINT:Advice of Polonius to his son, Laertes.
* With all my ____ on my head: O, horrible! O, horrible! most horrible! If thou hast nature in thee, bear it not; Let not the royal bed of Denmark be A couch for luxury and damned incest. ANSWER .
HINT: Hamlet says this. My shortcomings, deficiencies.
* Finding by this____ and drift of question that they do know my son. ANSWER .
HINT:environment, atmosphere, surroundings.
* Something have you heard Of Hamlet’s____so call it sith. ANSWER .
HINT:'sith' = accordingly, that being so.
* If ____ lead me, I will find Where truth is hid, though it were hid indeed within the centre. ANSWER .
* what lenten ____ the players shall receive from you? ANSWER .
HINT: 'Lenten' = regular. A beautiful adjective.
*I have in quick ____ thus set it down: he shall with speed to England. ANSWER .
ANNOTATION:King Claudius is ordering Polonius for deporting Hamlet to England. Claudius is apprehending some danger from Hamet's behavior..
* I hope we have reformed that ____ with us. ANSWER .
HINT: This conversation is between opera players and Hamlet. This is about the quality of operas.
* His definement suffers no perdition in you; though, I know, to divide him _____lly would dizzy the arithmetic of memory. ANSWER .
ANNOTATION: This conversation is between Hamlet and Osric, about Laertes. Perdition refers to to a crash,fall, ruin etc. Shakespeare used the word 'definement' in the sense of 'definition'. We, now, use the word definition..
Kindly see phrasal prepositions, and participal prepositions (posts #017 and #018) at my other blog mcqgram.Click.
