excerpt of Shakespeare: The World as Stage

What is the closest meaning of unimpeachable to the one used in the text?

• ambiguous

• trustworthy

• irreproachable

• clever

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What is most likely the author’s intent in paragraph 6?

• To specifically lay out the existing evidence for Shakespeare’s authorship of his work

• To reveal the results of his own scholarly investigations.

• To argue that less than half of Shakespeare’s works were written by another author

• To claim that no theory of authorship can be stated with authority

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Which of the following is most closely a central idea of the text?

• Shakespeare did not write the plays attributed to him.

• Shakespeare was a mercurial figure with little to no documentation of his existence.

• Those who claim Shakespeare was not the author of his work manipulate a lack of evidence to their advantage.

• PBS, the New York Times, and the director of the Globe Theater are to blame for their faulty scholarship.

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Which of these sentences from the excerpt best support the answer to Question 3?

• “Even Scientific American entered the fray with an article proposing that the person portrayed in the famous Martin Droeshout engraving might actually be—I weep to say it—Elizabeth I.”

• “The number of published books suggesting—or more often insisting—as much is estimated now to be well over five thousand.”

• “Shakespeare ‘never owned a book,’ a writer for The New York Times gravely informed readers in one doubting article in 2002.”

• “The statement cannot actually be refuted, for we know nothing about his incidental possessions. But the writer might just as well have suggested that Shakespeare never owned a pair of shoes or pants.”

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Match the following

• Shakespeare was uneducated merchant

• History Today

• Shakespeare not named as author in works

• Scientific American

• "engraving" of Shakespeare is Queen Eliz

• Harper's Magazine

• Shakespeare never owned one book

• New York Times

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