Seven Ages of Man

Jaques compares all men and women with players in a

• game of polo

• card game

• stage production

• child's game

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"The Seven Ages of Man" describe

• stories that start in the middle and then go back in time

• acts in a play, ending with a conclusion

• a popular, old English team sport related to soccer

• human life from infancy to old age

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According to the poem, the second stage in a man's life is the

• schoolboy

• lover

• soldier

• old man

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The stage in a man's life that followers the lover is the

• infant

• schoolboy

• soldier

• old man

The man who is "full of wise saws" is the

• soldier

• justice

• shrinking man

• old man

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A man is "sudden and quick in quarrel" during the age of the

• schoolboy

• soldier

• lover

• pantaloon

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What is the characteristic of man in the third stage of life?

• He writes ballads to his mistress

• He takes strange oaths.

• He carries a satchel

• He wears pantaloons.

Why in one stage of life does man experience "a world to wide/For his shrunk shank"?

• After a war, a hungry soldier does not fit into his uniform.

• A lover feels smaller because the power of love is so large.

• When a man becomes older, he also shrinks in size.

• The judge understand that he makes big decisions.

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Jaques makes old age seem

• carefree

• funny

• dignified

• sad

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According to the speaker, the "players" in these seven acts of life

• can choose whether or not to be in one of the acts

• must wear glasses and stockings

• enter as infants and exit as aged people

• enter as adults and exit as school children

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