VERSION B · BAC PRO · B1

Assessment out of 20

Written test. Total: 20 points.

Comprehension (6 points)

  1. Who is the ghost and what does he ask?
  2. Why does Hamlet organise a play?
  3. Who survives at the end?

Language (8 points)

  1. Rewrite with a modal: Perhaps the ghost is a devil.
  2. Report: Hamlet: 'I am not mad.'
  3. Complete: If Hamlet ______ (not hesitate), fewer people would die.
  4. Give two words linked to revenge.

Analysis (6 points)

  1. Explain 'To be, or not to be' in three sentences, with the idea of the tragic.

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Corrigé
  1. The old king, Hamlet's father; he asks him to avenge his murder (2).
  2. To test Claudius and see if he is guilty (2).
  3. Horatio (2).
  4. The ghost might be a devil (2).
  5. Hamlet said he was not mad (2).
  6. did not hesitate (2).
  7. duty, justice, sin, punishment (2, any two).
  8. Hamlet hesitates between suffering and fighting; death attracts and frightens him; this hesitation is his weakness and leads to the tragic end (6).

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