The Seven Ages of Man

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 extended metaphor in "The Seven Ages of Man" compares a

• schoolboy and a snail

• sighing lover and a furnace

• person's life and a play

• soldier and leopard

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

• infant

• schoolboy

• soldier

• old man

"All the world's a stage and all the men and women merely ________".

• puppets

• actors

• players

• dummies

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What are three things lost in "second childishness"?

• teeth, eyes, and taste

• hearing, strength, and appetite

• breath, smell, and hearing

• love, happiness, and wealth

Which stage of man is full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard, jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel.

• Infant

• School boy

• lover

• soldier

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.

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

• schoolboy

• soldier

• lover

• pantaloon

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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