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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How would Claudius describe Hamlet?

2. What language inspires Fengon's choice of name?

3. What is one reason Horvendil wants his son, Hamblet, to return from school?

4. What name has Corambis taken upon Fengon's coronation?

5. Geruthe is now forty-seven years old. When was the last time Geruthe and Fengon have seen each other?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe how Horvendil behaves in the audience chamber when he speaks to Fengon.

2. Describe how Geruthe asks for the help of Corambis in order to secretly meet with Fengon.

3. Describe the name changes that take place upon Claudius's coronation.

4. What does Horvendil infer about how his son spends his nights at the university compared to what Geruthe infers?

5. Describe some reasons why Claudius wants Hamlet to stay at Elsinore and not at Wittenberg.

6. What was Corambis's involvement with the king's murder?

7. Describe the difference between Fengon's idea of love and intimacy and how it is different than Geruthe's.

8. What does Geruthe need from Fengon to confirm that he really loves and understands her?

9. Describe how Fengon feels about his brother while he is in the audience chamber.

10. Describe why Geruthe suddenly wants to be rid of Corambis.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Geruthe and Fengon have different ideas of love. The difference makes the affair awkward at first until Fengon proves that he understands Geruthe's needs in love. Choose one of the following options to write an essay.

1. Describe the difference between Geruthe and Fengon in terms of their ideals in love.

2. Geruthe has been a married woman for many years. Fengon was married but for only a few years. How do you think this affects their ideals in love?

3. What does Geruthe need from Fengon before she can continue the affair? Why is this so important to her?

Essay Topic 2

Falconry is a common sport at the time of the story. Gerutha is disturbed by the sport's violence and the blinding of the falcons involved. Write a three part essay to discuss your answers to the following questions.

Part 1. Describe why Gertutha is made uncomfortable with the falcons used for sport.

Part 2. Explain the analogy between the blinded falcon and the affair of Gerutha and Feng.

Part 3. Describe how Gerutha feels after she releases Bathsheba. Do you think it is similar to the remorse of a passed love?

Essay Topic 3

Gerutha finds a companion in Feng and eventually desires him more than Horwendil. Answer the questions to create a three part essay.

Part 1. What is so attractive about Feng to Gerutha? What does Gerutha see in Feng that she desires?

Part 2. How is Feng different than his brother Horwendil? Is this difference attractive to Gerutha? Why?

Part 3. What do you think is more important to Gerutha, a man who listens or a man who talks? Why?

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