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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. What surprise does Rosencrantz get when he thinks he's playing with the Queen?

2. What does Guildenstern say about Hamlet?

3. Where did Hamlet say the body of Polonius is?

4. When Rosencrantz and Guildenstern talk about the weather, what do they decide?

5. How does Hamlet slip away from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern?

Short Essay Questions

1. What causes Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to laugh over the new coin game?

2. Tell about the dialogue between Rosencrantz and Guildenstern after Rosencrantz insists they have permission to leave.

3. What happens when Rosencrantz hears music?

4. What transpires when Rosencrantz brings up the subject of death?

5. What leads up to the death scene and how does it play out?

6. What is the lie Rosencrantz tells Claudius?

7. When Hamlet enters in Act 2, what does he say?

8. What does Hamlet ask the Player?

9. What happens when the King orders Guildenstern to go and bring Hamlet?

10. What happens over the subject of money?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write a paper on why and how there were no female actors during the Elizabethan age. Use Alfred as your example of how female characters were portrayed. Include the idea that Shakespeare himself may have begun his career in the theater as a female impersonator.

Essay Topic 2

Write a paper describing the characters of Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, and the Player as you see them? What are their strengths and weaknesses? How well do you like them? Can you recall people from real life that are similar?

Essay Topic 3

Write a paper on madness. Using Hamlet as an example, write about the different ways he appears as mad in the play. Describe the moments in the play when Hamlet seems lucid and behaves like a normal person. Give your opinion about whether Hamlet was acting from madness when he wrote the additional scene to The Murder of Gonzalo.

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