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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 amusing thing happens with the barrels?
2. Who are in the barrels?
3. What does Guildenstern say about death?
4. Where did Hamlet say the body of Polonius is?
5. How does the audience know that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern still do not know where they are?
Short Essay Questions
1. What leads up to the death scene and how does it play out?
2. Describe the hilarious scene involving the belts of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.
3. What is the lie Rosencrantz tells Claudius?
4. When Hamlet does return, what does he say about the body?
5. What transpires when Rosencrantz brings up the subject of death?
6. What happens when Rosencrantz hears music?
7. When Hamlet enters in Act 2, what does he say?
8. What game does Rosencrantz initiate on the ship?
9. What does Hamlet ask the Player?
10. Describe the funny bowing scene with Hamlet and Claudius.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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.
Essay Topic 2
Do some research on the Elizabethan theater and write a paper on how Stoppard's staging of his play borrows from staging during Shakespeare's time. In your paper include how the Player and his troupe were able to stage plays as they moved from place to place.
Essay Topic 3
Write a paper about the social position of actors during the Elizabethan age. Using Guildenstern's line that the troupe's company was welcome for lack of any other, explain the contradiction of loving plays while looking down on the players.
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