1. Hamlet is instantly suspicious of his friends, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. How do you know?
2. How does Hamlet feel about himself and his ability to avenge his father's death? (Hint He expresses his feelings during a soliloquy)
3. A group of actors have come to Elsinore to put on a play. Hamlet has asked the actors if he can write part of their script. What will the
play be about? What his Hamlet hoping to accomplish?

What does the author see as the main cause for why students don’t really see shakespeare as a real, flawed human being? we shouldn’t shy away from discussing our literary heroes’ flaws. if nothing else, the knowledge of their failures us appreciate what success and greatness these authors did achieve. often our hero-worship keeps us from truly seeing the complexity of a great author. thus, i would argue, nothing would be better for high school students than to take shakespeare down a peg or two. a) the fact that students never learn enough about shakespeares biography b) the fact that students only read shakespeare’s comedies while in school c) the fact that students are never assigned to read any shakespeare while in high school d) the fact that students only read shakespeare’s greatest works in school and thus never see his weaknesses

Write a 250-word essay in which you explain the significance of the different narrative voices in “the way to wealth.” use evidence from both texts to support your response.

Read the excerpt from the odyssey; 'o cyclops! would you feast on my companions? puny am i, in a caveman's hands? how do you like the beating that we gave you, you d(arn)ed cannibal? eater of guests under your roof! zeus and the gods have paid you! ' according to this excerpt, odysseus (a)is fearful of the cyclops. (b)is prideful and overly confident. (c)has been weakened by the cyclops. (d)has regrets about staying on the island.