Answer:
The options:
brave, authoritative, kind, compassionate, nervous, defensive shrewd, devious
The CORRECT ANSWER IS
nervous, defensive
Explanation:
Gertrude is a tough character to decode, due to little or no dialogue as expressed by the character. For a large part, she is observed to be passive, and submit to the instructions of her husband. Moving into Act IV, at some point, we can acknowledge that she is beginning to have some kind of repentant and guilty feeling on how her marriage is going, which prompts her to take on a defensive means. Along the line, both when she encountered Claudius follwing Hamlet assassination of Polonius, and when she saw the mental illness of Ophelia, she becomes nervous, and not clear of how to act and her next course of action.
