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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 is Guildenstern's ominous prediction?
2. Why does Rosencrantz think he can leave?
3. Beside the two British Ambassadors, what characters from Shakespeare are on stage at the end of the play?
4. When they open the letter, what is in it?
5. Why does Guildenstern say they do not need to worry about what to say to the King?
Short Essay Questions
1. When the lights finally do come up in Act 3, what does the audience see?
2. What happens when Rosencrantz hears music?
3. What blunder does Rosencrantz make over what he thinks is a woman?
4. What is the tragic news Claudius bears when he and Gertrude enter to find Rosencrantz and Guildenstern?
5. What game does Rosencrantz initiate on the ship?
6. When Hamlet does return, what does he say about the body?
7. After a blackout when someone shouts for the lights to come up, what does the audience see?
8. What does Hamlet ask the Player?
9. How does Rosencrantz initiate a new coin game?
10. How does the audience know what the stage setting is in Act 3?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write a paper on political revenge. Discuss in your paper the reasons Claudius had for wanting Hamlet dead. Also address the position of Gertrude as Claudius' wife as well as being Hamlet's mother.
Essay Topic 2
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 3
Write a paper on costuming for a play. Hamlet has been staged often in modern dress. Why, then, is it important in Stoppard's play that the costumes be Elizabethan? What do you think the costumes add to the play?
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