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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Fengon race to Lokisheim and then return to Elsinore?
(a) He must hide evidence from the king.
(b) He must tell his servents to hide his posessions.
(c) He must retrieve weapons.
(d) He needs to retrieve a poison to kill the king.

2. Why does Corambis agree to giving Geruthe what she asks for?
(a) Because he is aways loyal to the king.
(b) Because Corambis is in love with Geruthe.
(c) Because Geruthe asked so nicely.
(d) Because he remembers the girl she was before she married Horvendil.

3. When Fengon is summoned to the audience chamber, what topic does the king first speak of?
(a) The future of the throne.
(b) Domestic affairs.
(c) His affair with Geruthe.
(d) The weather.

4. How would Gertrude describe Hamlet?
(a) Skeptical and unsatisfied.
(b) Educated and sophisticated.
(c) Rude and unkind.
(d) Stately and strong.

5. What does Gertrude want Hamlet to do?
(a) Study at Wittenberg.
(b) Stay at Elsinore.
(c) Marry an English girl.
(d) Escape from Denmark.

6. What word best describes how Geruthe feels when she is with Fengon?
(a) Afraid.
(b) Silly.
(c) Sensual.
(d) Cold.

7. In Horvendil's words, what is the cause of people suffering?
(a) People making bad decisions.
(b) People made victim of a bad king.
(c) Disrupting the flow of goodness from God to king to the people.
(d) People forced into bad situations.

8. When does Horvendil summon Fengon to inform him that the affair with Geruthe is common knowledge?
(a) The end of October.
(b) The end of August.
(c) The beginning of spring.
(d) Christmas time.

9. Geruthe is now forty-seven years old. When was the last time Geruthe and Fengon have seen each other?
(a) Last week.
(b) Twelve years ago.
(c) Last night.
(d) One year ago.

10. How does Horvendil describe Geruthe's attention in the past months?
(a) Ignorant.
(b) Foul.
(c) Overripe.
(d) Sweet.

11. What story does Fengon tell Geruthe in their first secret meeting?
(a) He tells her a story about Byzantium.
(b) He tells her a story about love and war.
(c) He tells her a story about his mother.
(d) he tells her a story about his brother Horvendil.

12. Why does Fengon come to see Geruthe at the lodge?
(a) He wants to persue his romance with Geruthe.
(b) He intends to break the romance with Geruthe.
(c) He wants to conspire to take the throne.
(d) He intends to murder Geruthe.

13. How does Ophelia describe Hamlet to Gertrude?
(a) He can be very short tempered and violent.
(b) He can be very sweet and romantic.
(c) He can be very slow to think and make decisions.
(d) He can be very moody and difficult to be around.

14. How is Horvendil killed?
(a) By a great dual.
(b) By a slit throat.
(c) By strangulation.
(d) By poison.

15. What did Geruthe realize about the falcon once it was too late?
(a) That the bird was violent.
(b) That the bird was not worth any money.
(c) That she did not value the falcon until it was gone.
(d) That she let the bird get sick.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Geruthe tell Corambis that the favor is for?

2. Who does Geruthe suggest as a good wife for Hamblet?

3. What has Fengon made a vow of renunciation for?

4. What is Horvendil's primary concern about his brother Fengon?

5. Why does Horvendil disapprove of Geruthe´s suggestion for their son's future wife?

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