Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Hamlet
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If thou hast any sound, or use of voice,
Speak to me;
If there be any good thing to be done,
That may to thee do ease and grace to me,
Speak to me:
If thou art privy to the country's fate,
Which, happily foreknowing may avoid,
O, speak!
Or if thou has uphoarded in thy life,
Extorted treasure in the womb of earth,
For which, they say, you spirits oft walk in death,
Speak of it;
(Act One, Scene I, lines 128 - 139)
The speaker's mood is

During this speech

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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)
Speakers Y and Z are

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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)
Speaker Z's responses suggest that he is

Read the extract and answer the question
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)
The two characters who just left this scene are