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Read the passage from Hamlet, and then answer the following question(s).What would be one reason why a tragedy is an effective means for telling Hamlet’s story?

Read the passage from Romeo and Juliet, and then answer the following question(s).Read the following lines.What if it be a poison, which the friarSubtly hath minister’d to have me dead,Lest in this marriage he should be dishonour’d,Because he married me before to Romeo?What does the word minister’d mean?

Read the passage from Romeo and Juliet, and then answer the following question(s).What is the setting of this excerpt?

Read the passage from Romeo and Juliet, and then answer the following question(s).What does Juliet reveal in her thoughts that was more common during the time the play was written than it is today?

Read the passage from Romeo and Juliet, and then answer the following question(s).Juliet’s long speech is a soliloquy. Based on this speech, what do you think the main purpose of a soliloquy is?

Read the passage from Romeo and Juliet, and then answer the following question(s).According to Juliet, who or what “shall forbid” her marriage the following day?

Read the passage Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, and then answer the following question(s).What was the first play performed in the original Globe?

Read the passage Rembrandt’s Gaze, and then answer the following question(s).What conclusion can be drawn from the information in the last two paragraphs?

Read the passage from Hamlet, and then answer the following question(s).To what does Hamlet compare the player’s speaking ability in line 15?

Read the passage from Hamlet, and then answer the following question(s).To what does Hamlet compare the player’s speaking ability in line 15?