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Hamlet test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Whom does Gertrude rush to see after Polonius is killed? | Claudius |
| What does Gertrude compare herself to? | the violent ocean |
| What is Claudius’s main concern? | Keeping his power |
| What does Hamlet accuse Rosencrantz and Guildenstern of? | Being spies for Claudius |
| What does Hamlet allow Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to do? | Accompany him back to Claudius |
| Who reveals the location of Polonius’s body? | Hamlet |
| What orders does Claudius send to England with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern? | That Hamlet be killed |
| What is Fortinbras doing when he comes across Hamlet, Rosencrantz, and Guildenstern? | He is on his way to attack Poland |
| Why is Hamlet surprised by the nature of the conflict between Poland and Norway? | Because the conflict seems so insignificant |
| What does Hamlet resolve to do after meeting Fortinbras? | Achieve his revenge |
| What advice does Claudius give to Laertes? | That he should seek revenge on whoever is responsible for Polonius’s death |
| What does Hamlet’s letter to Horatio say? | That he is returning to Denmark with news |
| Why doesn’t Claudius punish Hamlet? | Because too many people adore Hamlet |
| Why is Laertes happy about Hamlet’s return to Denmark? | Because he plans to kill him |
| When does Laertes plan to kill Hamlet? | At a fencing match |
| What do Laertes and Claudius plan to do if Hamlet wins the duel? | Poison him with a cup of wine |
| How does Ophelia die? | She drowns in a river. |
| Why are the gravediggers arguing about Ophelia? | Because they hear that she has killed herself |
| What does the gravedigger say to Hamlet when he asks whose grave he is digging? | He says that it’s his own grave. |
| What does Hamlet notice about the funeral procession? | That the procession seems irregular and suggests a suicide |
| What does Hamlet say to Laertes upon realizing that it is Ophelia’s funeral? | That he loved Ophelia in ways that no one could understand |
| What finally appeases Laertes at Ophelia’s funeral? | Claudius reminds Laertes that they have a plan to kill Hamlet. |
| What does Hamlet tell Horatio about death? | That it is inevitable |
| How does Gertrude die? | She accidentally drinks wine that Claudius poisoned. |
| How does Hamlet find out about Claudius’s plan? | Laertes makes a dying declaration. |
| What does the dying Hamlet tell Horatio to do? | Live and pass along his story |
| Who rules Denmark at the end of the play? | Fortinbras |
| Who returns Hamlet to Denmark after his exile? | A group of pirates |
| Which of Claudius and Laertes’ traps for Hamlet succeeds in killing him? | the poisoned sword |
| In which of the following years was Hamlet most likely written? | 1601 |
| Which character speaks the first line of the play? | Bernardo |
| Who killed Fortinbras’s father? | Hamlet's father |
| In what country do Rosencrantz and Guildenstern die? | England |
| How many characters die during the course of the play? | 8 |
| Who is the last character to die in the play? | Hamlet |
| Whose story does Hamlet ask the players to tell upon their arrival to Elsinore? | Priam and Hecuba's |
| What does Hamlet claim to be able to tell the difference between when the wind is from the south? | A hawk and handsaw |
| Which of the following characters survive the play? | Fortinbras, Horatio, and Osric |
| Where do Hamlet and Laertes fight during Ophelia’s funeral? | Inside the grave itself |
| Whose skull does Hamlet discover in the churchyard? | The former court jester’s |
| Where is the university at which Horatio and Hamlet studied? | Wittenberg |
| How did Claudius murder King Hamlet? | By pouring poison into his ear |
| What noise drives the ghost offstage? | A COCK'S CROW |
| In his first appearance onstage, Hamlet is wearing | mourning clothes |
| Who does Barnardo describe as the 'rivals of his watch'? | Horatio and Marcellus |
| 'This bodes some strange eruption to our state' | Horatio |
| 'In that and all things will we show our duty'? | Voltemand and Cornelus |
| 'Not so my lord, I am too much i'th'sun' | Hamlet |
| Who tells Hamlet that he is showing 'impious stubbornness' and 'unmanly grief'? | Claudius |
| Which mythical figure does Hamlet compare Gertrude to in Act 1 Scene 2? | Niobe |
| What sort of character does Ophelia tell Laertes not to be like? | a reckless libertine |
| How does Claudius use Laertes’ anger to his own advantage in Act IV? | • He turns Laertes anger onto Hamlet. • He asks Laertes if he truly loved his father, or is he just acting like it? • He asks Laertes if he loved his father enough to avenge his murder. • He tells Laertes who actually killed Polonius. |
| What is Claudius’ secret plan regarding the trip to England in Act IV? | He sends letters via Rosencrantz and Guildenstern requesting Hamlet's execution in England. |
| What kinds of jokes does Hamlet make about the corpse of Polonius in Act IV? | dirt/corpse will return to earth. "@ supper, where is eaten" worm eats a king make his way into a fish that is caught by a beggar and eaten if cannot find P in Heaven, shld seek in Hell, & if cannot find the corpse they will smell it in abt a month. |
| In Act IV, why doesn’t Claudius try to prosecute Hamlet for murder within Elsinore? | Claudius says that the general public loves Hamlet so much that he could do nearly anything and still be excused by the people. |
| Of what does Hamlet accuse Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in Act IV? | • acting like a sponge to soak up information for the king • trying to find out his secrets • seeking favor from the king • trying to play him like a pipe |
| What does Claudius place in the cup as Laertes and Hamlet duel? | A pearl |
| What handicap is Hamlet given before the duel with Laertes? | a free 3 hit score |
| Hamlet says that the first Rapier he recieves is - | Just fine |
| Laertes says that the first Rapier he recieves is - | Too heavy |
| Who makes the first hit in the duel? | Hamlet |
| Horatio almost _________ while Hamlet dies. | kills himself w poison (in the cup) |
| How does Hamlet die? | he is stabbed by the poisoned sword and drinks the cup of poison |
| 'Something is rotten in the state of Denmark' | Marcellus |
| 'Alas poor Yorick! I knew him...a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy' | Hamlet |
| 'Imperious Caesar, dead and turned to clay, might stop a hole to keep the wind away' | Hamlet |
| 'Lay [her] i' the earth; and from [her] fair and unpollited flesh may violets spring' | Laertes on Ophelia |
| 'Forty thousand brothers could not, with all the quantity of love, make up my sum' | Hamlet |
| 'Theres a divinity that shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we will' | Hamlet |
| 'The bravery of [his] grief did put me into towering passion' | Hamlet on Laertes |
| 'The rest is silence.' | Hamlet when dying |
| 'Now cracks a noble heart. Good night, sweet [prince]' | Horatio on Hamlet |
| 'For me, with sorrow i embrace my fortune; i have sow rights of memory in this kingdom' | Fortinbras |
| Who tells Hamlet that Laertes has challenged him to a duel? | Osric |
| What poison does Claudius pour into the ear of Hamlet's father, causing his death? | hebenon |
| What role did Polonius play in a university production of Julius Caesar? | Julius Ceasar |
| What animal does Hamlet claim to see in the clouds? | (B) Camel (C) Weasel (D) Whale |
| What does the ghost tell Hamlet to do about his mother? | Leave her to Heaven |
| Where on the body of Fortune do Rosencrantz and Guildenstern claim to reside? | In her privates |
| Why are the players traveling? | They've been displaced by a troupe of child actors. |
| "Nymph, in [thy] orisons be all my sins remembered" | Hamlet on Ophelia |
| 'Dost [thou] come here to whine, to outface me with leaping in [her] grave?' | Hamlet to Laertes |
| “What is he that builds stronger than either the mason, the shipwright, or the carpenter?” | Gravedigger |
| '[His] purse is empty already. All ’s golden words are spent.' | Horatio on Osric |
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