Week 51: Macbeth (2) + Test Practice

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Macbeth (2) + Test Practice

Week 51
The Shakespeare Reader
Havo 5 & Vwo 6

Assignment 2: Macbeth

- Deadline = 11 January (First schoolweek after Christmas Break)

- Your own version of Macbeth 

- Film, theatre, setting (16th, 21st century, future?), costumes, 
   plot changes, new characters or remove some, casting, ... ? 

- Be as creative as possible

- 400-500 words 

- in English of course!

Test Practice

Week 51

Let's see how much you've remembered so far...

1. When is the literature test for English?

1. Tuesday 22 January
2. Thursday 24 January
3. Monday 28 January
4. Wednesday 30 January

2. On the test you will get...

1. Multiple choice questions
2. Open questions
3. True or False questions
4. All three of them

3. (Week 47) When was Shakespeare born?

1. 1564
2. 1584
3. 1604
4. 1624

4. (Week 47) What is not an element of a tragedy?

1. Revenge
2. Supernatural elements
3. Lots of dialogue
4. An internal struggle

5. (Week 48) True or False "The Great Fire of London destroyed 80% of the city."

1. True
2. False

6. (Week 48) Guy Fawkes is responsible for what...?

1. The Firearm Plot
2. The Cannon Plot
3. The Bombing Plot
4. The Gunpowder Plot

7. (Week 49) A large theatre could house up to ....

1. 2000 people
2. 3000 people
3. 4000 people
4. 5000 people

8. (Week 49): The most important theatre in Shakespeare's time was?

1. The World Theatre
2. The Globe Theatre
3. The London Theatre
4. The Crown Theatre

9. (Week 50): Macbeth is Shakespeare's ....

1. shortest play
2. longest play
3. most peaceful play
4. most difficult play

10. (Week 50): True or False "King James burned more than 8000 women at the stake."

1. True
2. False

11. (Week 2) Who is Hamlet supposed to kill ?

1. Duncan
2. Claudius
3. Polonius
4. Macbeth

12. (Week 2) How does Hamlet's girlfriend Ophelia die in the play?

1. Hanging
2. Suicide
3. Stabbing
4. Poison

13. (Week 3) True or false: iambic pentameter means the emphasis falls on every first syllable

1. True
2. False

14. (Week 3) Shakespeare wrote how many poems?

1. 84
2. 154
3. 96
4. 136

15. True or false: Christopher Marlowe wrote the play "Doctor Faustus"

1. True
2. False

Example Open questions: 

- Name at least 3 of the 5 elements of a Shakespearean comedy.

- Which three flags did the globe theatre use? 

- Which 3 things do the apparitions tell Macbeth? 

- What legend surrounds Christopher Marlowe? 
- Which two religions did the English monarchs switch between?

= about background info + questions in the reader

Example "Toepassing" question: 

(From Macbeth Act 4.1)
SECOND APPARITION: "Macbeth, Macbeth, Macbeth
Be bloody, bold and resolute, laugh to scorn. 
The power of man, for none of woman born, 
Shall harm Macbeth."

What does the apparition predict and how does this come true?

Literature Test (24th of January)

Havo 5: 
- last year's reader (Dracula, Woman in Black, Monkey's Paw) 
- ghost stories background info (gothic novel, characteristics, ...)
- this year's reader: background info, questions, etc. 

Vwo 6 (had a literature test last year):
- only this year's reader: background info, questions, etc. 

Shakespeare Reader

- Read the background information for week 50 & 51 + act 4.1

- Answer the questions (use the internet)

- Read through / work on the second assignment
(Deadline = 11 January = 1st schoolweek after Christmas Break!)