Hamlet Test and Answer Key for High School
This summative test covers William Shakespeare's Hamlet and includes an answer key, as well as a standards-based rubric for scoring essays. Materials are delivered in Word Document and PDF formats. (Alternatively, a self-grading Google Drive option is available.) By administering this assessment, teachers will evaluate students' abilities to do the following:
Demonstrate knowledge significant characters and the key aspects of their lives
Demonstrate knowledge of significant events throughout the play
Identify the context of meaningful quotations in the play
Apply knowledge of a variety of literary devices applied in the play including hyperbole, metaphor, simile, personification, oxymoron, and more
Respond to an essay prompt requiring students to evaluate tragic mistakes Hamlet makes
Cite relevant textual evidence in support of claims made in an academic essay
Materials are available for teaching a variety of Shakespeare’s plays:
This summative test covers William Shakespeare's Hamlet and includes an answer key, as well as a standards-based rubric for scoring essays. Materials are delivered in Word Document and PDF formats. (Alternatively, a self-grading Google Drive option is available.) By administering this assessment, teachers will evaluate students' abilities to do the following:
Demonstrate knowledge significant characters and the key aspects of their lives
Demonstrate knowledge of significant events throughout the play
Identify the context of meaningful quotations in the play
Apply knowledge of a variety of literary devices applied in the play including hyperbole, metaphor, simile, personification, oxymoron, and more
Respond to an essay prompt requiring students to evaluate tragic mistakes Hamlet makes
Cite relevant textual evidence in support of claims made in an academic essay
Materials are available for teaching a variety of Shakespeare’s plays:
This summative test covers William Shakespeare's Hamlet and includes an answer key, as well as a standards-based rubric for scoring essays. Materials are delivered in Word Document and PDF formats. (Alternatively, a self-grading Google Drive option is available.) By administering this assessment, teachers will evaluate students' abilities to do the following:
Demonstrate knowledge significant characters and the key aspects of their lives
Demonstrate knowledge of significant events throughout the play
Identify the context of meaningful quotations in the play
Apply knowledge of a variety of literary devices applied in the play including hyperbole, metaphor, simile, personification, oxymoron, and more
Respond to an essay prompt requiring students to evaluate tragic mistakes Hamlet makes
Cite relevant textual evidence in support of claims made in an academic essay
Materials are available for teaching a variety of Shakespeare’s plays: