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Literature External
QCAA External Exam (Hamlet)
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Horatio's Final Addressing of Hamlet | "Good night sweet Prince, and flights of angels sing thee to thy nest" (Act 5, scene 2) |
| The ghost revealing Claudius killed King Hamlet Senior | "The serpent that did sting thy fathers life now wears the crown" (Act 1 Scene 5) |
| The ghost urging Hamlet to avenge his fathers death | "Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder" (Act 1, scene 5) |
| The Ghost earned Hamlet not to harm Gertrude | "Leave her to heaven and to those thorns that in her bosom lodge to prick and sting her" (Act 1 Scene 3) |
| Ophelia says when she gives Laertes flowers of remembrance | "There's rosemary, that's for remembrance. Pray you love / remember. And there is pansies, that's for thoughts" (Act 4 Scene 5) |
| Ophelia says when giving Gertrude flowers symbolising adultery | "That's fennel for you, and columbines." (Act 4, scene 5) |
| Ophelia says when giving Claudius flowers symbolising repentance and unhappy love | "There's rue for / you and here's some for me. We may call it "herb of grace" ... / you must wear your rue with a / difference. -There's a daisy." (Act 4, Scene 5) |
| Ophelia's response to Hamlet swearing he never loved her | "I was the more deceived." (Act 3, scene 1) |
| How Hamlet called Ophelia a fallen woman | "Get thee to a nunnery" (Hamlet) (Act 3, scene 1) |
| Ophelia's reaction to Hamlets maddened speech toward her | "O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown." (Act 3, scene 1) |
| How Polonius scolded Ophelia for believing Hamlet loved her | "Think yourself a baby / That you have ta'en these tenders for true pay / Which are not sterling" (Act 1, scene 3) |
| What Laertes said to Ophelia about the longevity of Hamlets love | "Forward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting, / The perfume and suppliance of a minute. / No more." (Act 1, scene 3) |
| Laertes first reaction to Ophelia's death | "Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia, / And therefore I forbid my tears." (Act 4, scene 7) |
| What Laertes says before jumping in Ophelia's grave | "Hold off the earth awhile / Till I have caught her once more in mine arms." (Act 5, scene 1) |
| Hamlet describing that if it wasn't for bad thoughts he'd be limitless (talking to Rosencrates) | "Oh God, I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a King of infinite space, were it not I have bad dreams" (Act 2, scene 2) |
| What does Hamlet believe conscience does? | "This conscience does make cowards of us all" (Act 3, scene 1) |
| Hamlets turning point of revenge | "O, from this time forth, my thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth!" (Act 4, Scene 4) |
| First 4 lines of TBONTB | "To be or not to be, that is the question. Whether tis nobler of the mind to suffer / The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune or take arms against a sea of troubles / and by opposing end them" (Act 3, scene 1) |
| Polonius debating whether Hamlet is crazy or not | "Though this be in madness, yet there is method in't" (Act 2, scene 2) |
| Hamlet referring to Claudius disguise as a good man | "One may smile and smile and be a villain." (Act 1, scene 5) |
| Laertes first reaction to his Father's death, saying Claudius named his father a... | "That drop of blood that's calm proclaims me bastard, / Eries "Cuckold"! To my father..." (Act 4, scene 5) |
| Laertes, saying he wishes to be the one to kill Hamlet | "The rather if you could devise it so / That I might be the organ" (Act 4, scene 7) |
| Laertes asking for Hamlet's forgiveness, saying his father's death was not Hamlet's fault, as Hamlets was not his | "Exchange forgiveness with me Noble Hamlet. / Mine and my father's death come not upon thee / Nor thine on me." (Act 5, scene 2) |
| Hamlet berating himself for not acting after hearing the Players speech | "O, what a rouge and peasant slave, am I" (Act 2, scene 2) |