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3.42 Hamlet Final Exam

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    cc_profilecc.exam.v0p1qmd_assessmenttypeExaminationqmd_scoretypePercentagecc_maxattempts1<p><span style="font-size: 16px;">Directions: The following is a final test on Shakespeare's play <em>Hamlet.</em> It includes multiple choice, short answer questions and unit 3 reflection questions. It is worth 150 points. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 16px;">You may take this exam <em><span style="text-decoration: underline;">once </span></em>and it is <em><span style="text-decoration: underline;">NOT</span> </em>resumable. That is, you need to complete this exam in one sitting. You cannot go away and return to the exam, so <strong><em><span style="text-decoration: underline;">be sure that you have an hour or so available before you begin</span></em></strong>.</span></p>
    cc_profilecc.multiple_response.v0p1<p>Who says this?</p> <p>“Brevity is the soul of wit.”</p>PoloniusHamletHoratioDaenerys14100cc_profilecc.multiple_choice.v0p1<p><span>Who says this?</span></p> <p>“Get thee to a nunnery!”</p>PoloniusHamletHoratioLaertes6100cc_profilecc.multiple_choice.v0p1<p><span>Who says this?</span></p> <p>“A little more than kin, and less than kind.”</p>PoloniusHamletOpheliaGertrude10100cc_profilecc.multiple_choice.v0p1<p><span>Who says this?</span></p> <p>“The lady doth protest too much, methinks.”</p>PoloniusHamletOpheliaGertrude16100cc_profilecc.multiple_choice.v0p1<p><span>Who says this?</span></p> <p>“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.”</p>GertrudeHamletOpheliaMarcellus20100cc_profilecc.multiple_choice.v0p1<p><span>Who says this?</span></p> <p>“Frailty, thy name is a woman!”</p>PoloniusHamletOpheliaMarcellus22100cc_profilecc.multiple_choice.v0p1<p><span>Who says this?</span></p> <p>“Though this be madness, yet there’s method in ‘t.”</p>PoloniusHamletOpheliaMarcellus25100cc_profilecc.multiple_choice.v0p1<pre>Who is the first character to see the ghost?<br /><br /></pre>Hamlet MarcellusOpheliaFrancisco30100cc_profilecc.multiple_choice.v0p1<pre>What does Laertes warn Ophelia against?</pre>Falling in love with Hamlet Becoming a nun Disobeying her father Falling behind in her domestic duties33100cc_profilecc.multiple_choice.v0p1<pre>Who does Claudius ask to keep an eye on Hamlet?</pre>Ophelia HoratioMarcellus and BernardoRosencrantz and Guildenstern40100cc_profilecc.multiple_choice.v0p1<pre>What reason does Polonius offer for Hamlet’s madness?</pre>He is upset about the marriage of Claudius and Gertrude He loves Ophelia He is distraught over his father’s death He’s a moody teenager42100cc_profilecc.multiple_choice.v0p1<pre>Claudius is _________ when Hamlet decides he could kill him, but holds off.</pre>Praying Sleeping EatingReading45100cc_profilecc.multiple_choice.v0p1<pre>Why does Claudius send Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to England?</pre>To bring back gifts for the queen To spy on Hamlet To order Hamlet's deathTo give them an education51100cc_profilecc.multiple_response.v0p1<pre>Who is Hamlet talking to in the graveyard, while holding the skull?</pre>HoratioYorickClaudiusHis father, King Hamlet5354100cc_profilecc.multiple_choice.v0p1<pre>What causes Ophelia’s death?</pre>HangingStabbingBroken heartDrowning60100cc_profilecc.multiple_choice.v0p1<p>What's Hamlet's plan for finding out if Claudius killed his father?</p>Ask him if he killed himPut on a play in which the main character gets killed and the murderer marries the victim's wife.Eavesdrop on Claudius and Polonius and see if they confess to the murder.Talk to his mother about Claudius and see if she things maybe he killed her.1100cc_profilecc.multiple_choice.v0p1<p>Why does Ophelia's father get killed?</p>Hamlet finds out he murdered his father.Hamlet kills him because he wants to marry OpheliaClaudius kills him because he's going to tell Hamlet that he murdered his father.It's an accident. Hamlet thinks he's killing Claudius.7100cc_profilecc.multiple_choice.v0p1<p>Why does Hamlet pretend to be crazy?</p>To keep Claudius from suspecting that he knows anything.So he can spy on Claudius without anyone knowing he's all there.So his mother will leave him alone and quit asking him about Ophelia.To win back Ophelia.8100cc_profilecc.essay.v0p1qmd_computerscoredNo<p><span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'century gothic', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">Answer in a complete paragraph with specific examples and evidence from the play:</span></p> <p><span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'century gothic', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">In your opinion, why does Hamlet wait to avenge his father's death?</span></p>100cc_profilecc.essay.v0p1qmd_computerscoredNo<p><span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'century gothic', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'century gothic', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">Answer in a complete paragraph with specific examples and evidence from the play:</span></span></p> <p><span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'century gothic', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">How does Hamlet's philosophy on death evolve throughout the play?</span></p>100cc_profilecc.essay.v0p1qmd_computerscoredNo<p><span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'century gothic', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">Answer in a complete paragraph with specific examples and evidence from the play:</span></p> <p><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; word-wrap: normal; word-break: normal; color: #444444; font-family: 'century gothic', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">The term<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; word-wrap: normal; word-break: normal;">aesthetics</strong>is used to describe the overall impact or beauty of a work of art.</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'century gothic', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16.7999992370605px;"></span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; word-wrap: normal; word-break: normal; color: #444444; font-family: 'century gothic', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Some would argue that the<a class="sExtlink-processed" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline-width: 0px; word-wrap: normal; word-break: normal;" href="http://www.enotes.com/literary-terms/aesthetics" target="_blank">aesthetics</a>of<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; word-wrap: normal; word-break: normal;">Hamlet</em>are what makes it so famous to this day. What literary techniques does Shakespeare use that contribute to the aesthetics of this play? Why is it considered a work of art? Terms like symbolism, irony, tone, and lyricism will strengthen your response. You may want to refer to your original list of literary terms in Unit 3 Session 1.</span></p>100cc_profilecc.essay.v0p1qmd_computerscoredNo<p>Below are three different versions of Hamlet's famous <a href="http://www.monologuearchive.com/s/sh...peare_001.html">To Be or Not To Be monologue</a>. Choose two versions and compare and contrast them. How are they similar? How are they different? Then make an argument. Which one do you find to be the most effective version? Think about the core message of the original text and which movie best portrays that message.</p> <p>Terms like monologue, setting, theme, and conflict will strengthen your answer. Your answer should be 3-4 paragraphs long.</p> <p><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/1Up-oGfiosE" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></p> <p><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Vf2TpWsPvgI" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></p> <p><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/SjuZq-8PUw0" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></p>100cc_profilecc.essay.v0p1qmd_computerscoredNo<p><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>Choose one of the quotes below and explain why it would be interesting to a gender theorist. Answer in a complete paragraph:</strong></span></p> <p></p> <p><strong>Act 1 Scene 2 lines 90-92 and 96-101</strong></p> <p><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 25px;">KING:</span></p> <p><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 25px;">'Tis sweet and commendable in your nature,</span></p> <p><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 25px;"> Hamlet,</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 17.5px; line-height: 25px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 25px;">To give these mourning duties to your father.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 17.5px; line-height: 25px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 25px;">[…] but to persever</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 17.5px; line-height: 25px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 25px;">In obstinate condolement is a course</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 17.5px; line-height: 25px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 25px;">Of impious stubbornness. 'Tis unmanly grief.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 17.5px; line-height: 25px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 25px;">It shows a will most incorrect to heaven,</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 17.5px; line-height: 25px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 25px;">A heart unfortified, a mind impatient,</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 17.5px; line-height: 25px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 25px;">An understanding simple and unschooled:</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 17.5px; line-height: 25px;" /><br /></p> <p><strong><span style="font-size: 12px;">Act 1 Scene 2 lines 141-150</span></strong></p> <p><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 25px;">HAMLET</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 17.5px; line-height: 25px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 25px;">That it should come to this:</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 17.5px; line-height: 25px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 25px;">But two months dead—nay, not so much, not two.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 17.5px; line-height: 25px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 25px;">So excellent a king, that was, to this</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 17.5px; line-height: 25px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 25px;">Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 17.5px; line-height: 25px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 25px;">That he might not beteem the winds of heaven</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 17.5px; line-height: 25px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 25px;">Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and Earth.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 17.5px; line-height: 25px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 25px;">Must I remember? why, she would hang on him</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 17.5px; line-height: 25px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 25px;">As if increase of appetite had grown</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 17.5px; line-height: 25px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 25px;">By what it fed on. And yet, within a month</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 17.5px; line-height: 25px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 25px;">(Let me not think on 't; frailty, thy name is woman!)</span></p> <p><strong><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 25px;">Act 3 Scene 1 Lines 146-152</span></strong></p> <p><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; line-height: 25px; font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; line-height: 25px;">HAMLET</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 17.5px; line-height: 25px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; line-height: 25px;">If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 17.5px; line-height: 25px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; line-height: 25px;">forthy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 17.5px; line-height: 25px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; line-height: 25px;">snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. Get thee to a</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 17.5px; line-height: 25px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; line-height: 25px;">nunnery, farewell. Or, if thou wilt needsmarry,</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 17.5px; line-height: 25px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; line-height: 25px;">marry a fool, for wise men know well enoughwhat</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 17.5px; line-height: 25px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; line-height: 25px;">monsters you make of them. To a nunnery, go,and</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 17.5px; line-height: 25px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; line-height: 25px;">quickly too. Farewell.</span></span></p>100cc_profilecc.essay.v0p1qmd_computerscoredNo<p><span style="font-size: 14px;">Why would the quote below be interesting to a social class theorist? Answer in a complete paragraph:</span></p> <p><strong>Act 1 Scene 3 Lines 70-83</strong></p> <p>Polonius:</p> <div class="original-line" style="color: #424242; font-family: LFT-Etica-Web, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px;">Take each man’s censure but reserve thy judgment.</div> <div class="original-line" style="color: #424242; font-family: LFT-Etica-Web, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px;">Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,</div> <div class="original-line" style="color: #424242; font-family: LFT-Etica-Web, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px;">But not expressed in fancy—rich, not gaudy,</div> <div class="original-line" style="color: #424242; font-family: LFT-Etica-Web, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px;">For the apparel oft proclaims the man,</div> <div class="original-line" style="color: #424242; font-family: LFT-Etica-Web, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px;">And they in France of the best rank and station</div> <div class="original-line" style="color: #424242; font-family: LFT-Etica-Web, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px;">Are of a most select and generous chief in that.</div> <div class="original-line" style="color: #424242; font-family: LFT-Etica-Web, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px;">Neither a borrower nor a lender be,</div> <div class="original-line" style="color: #424242; font-family: LFT-Etica-Web, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px;">For loan oft loses both itself and friend,</div> <div class="original-line" style="color: #424242; font-family: LFT-Etica-Web, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px;">And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.</div> <div class="original-line" style="color: #424242; font-family: LFT-Etica-Web, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px;">This above all: to thine own self be true,</div> <div class="original-line" style="color: #424242; font-family: LFT-Etica-Web, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px;">And it must follow, as the night the day,</div> <div class="original-line" style="color: #424242; font-family: LFT-Etica-Web, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px;">Thou canst not then be false to any man.</div> <div class="original-line" style="color: #424242; font-family: LFT-Etica-Web, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px;">Farewell. My blessing season this in thee.</div>100cc_profilecc.essay.v0p1qmd_computerscoredNo<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Unit 3 Reflection Question - Do you think reading Shakespeare's Hamlet is still revelant today? Why or why not?</span><span><br /></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /><span style="font-family: ArialRegular; line-height: normal; text-indent: -0.25in;"></span></span></p>100cc_profilecc.essay.v0p1qmd_computerscoredNo<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Reflect on your reading of<em><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">Hamlet</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"></span>in Unit 3.</span></p> <p style="line-height: 12.6pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;">- Did you enjoy reading the play? Why or why not?</span></span><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;">What was the most challenging part of reading this play? Why?</span></span></p>100

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