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Unit Test: Hamlet
Below are five questions on Hamlet. Answer Question 1, Question 2, and Question 3 with responses of at least one paragraph. Then answer either Question 4 or Question 5 in a literary essay of at least five paragraphs. Remember to incorporate textual evidence in all of your responses. You may refer to your copy of Hamlet and your notes as you write.
Answer Questions 1, and 2.
Total score: ____ of 25 points
(Score for Question 2: ___ of 5 points)
1. What purpose do the soliloquies that Hamlet delivers over the course of the play serve? What do readers and audience members learn about Hamlet from what he says in these speeches?
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(Score for Question 3: ___ of 5 points)
2. Do you think Hamlet was sane or not (or a combination of both) throughout this play? Why or why not? Justify your answer with evidence from the text.
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Choose ONE of the them questions below to answer
(Score for Question 4: ___ of 15 points)
4. As you know, Laertes and Fortinbras are two characters in Shakespeare’s play that serve as foils for Hamlet. How does each figure expose or highlight certain traits in Hamlet’s character, and how does each character’s behavior in the play relate to the themes of advice and duty, action versus inaction, and sanity versus madness? Give at least 3 examples from the text to support your thinking. Please be sure to cite your examples (put the following in parenthesis after your citation: (Act ____, Scene _____))

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Score for Question 5: ___ of 15 points)
5. Why is the idea of playing a role or acting a part so important to Hamlet over the course of the play? How does role-playing affect several major events in the plot and the relationships between various characters? Give at least 3 examples from the text to support your thinking. Please be sure to cite your examples (put the following in parenthesis after your citation: (Act ____, Scene _____))

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Score for Question 5: ___ of 15 points)
6. What theme was most influential to the events and outcomes of the play? Give at least 3 examples from the text to support your thinking. Please be sure to cite your examples (put the following in parenthesis after your citation: (Act ____, Scene _____))