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Hamlet Act III
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| King Claudius and Queen Gertrude discuss Hamlet's behavior with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern who say they have ___ been able to learn the cause of his melancholy. They tell the king and queen that Hamlet seems to be enthusiastic about the ___. | Not, Play. |
| What do we learn about King Claudius in lines 58-60: "The harlot's cheek, beautied with plastering art, is not more ugly to the thing that helps it than is my deed to my most painted word." | His beautiful words is a mask of his guilt/sin. |
| Define anthithesis. | A pair of statements that reserves each other. |
| Summarize Hamlet's famous "To Be, or Not to Be" speech. | To Live or to Die. |
| To whom does Hamlet say, "Get thee to a nunnery!" | Ophelia |
| After spying on Hamlet's behavior, King Claudius doesn't think Hamlet's insane behavior is caused by being in love with Ophelia, but from melancholy. He says he will send Hamlet to ___ to see if a change of scenery will help him. | England |
| Polonius still think that Hamlet is madly in love with his daughter, Ophelia, and requests one more chance to spy on Hamlet in ___'s room after the play. | Queen |
| When King Claudius says "Madness in great ones must not unwatch'd go," he indicates that he sees ___ as dangerous. | Hamlet |
| It is the evening of the play, and Hamlet gives the ___ advice on how to perform the lines that he has written into the play. | Players |
| Having already told his friend Horatio what he learned from the ghost, that his uncle Claudius murdered his father, Hamlet asks Horatio to observe ___ during the play and look for signs of guilt. | Claudius |
| Polonius makes an allusion to ___ in line 99. | Julius Caesar |
| Define Couplet | Two consecutive lines that rhyme at the end. |
| What does Hamlet call the play? | The Mousetrap. |
| When the players act out the scene showing the murdered pouring poison in the sleeping king's ear, King Claudius rises and cries out for ___ and runs out of the room. | Lights |
| Define personification | When the author gives human traits to nonhuman things. |
| Explain quote from lines 379-380: "Let me be cruel, not unnatural; I will speak daggers to her, but use none." | Hamlet will speak cruelly to his mother, but won't use physical violence. |
| How does Claudius feel about himself? | He is praying for forgiveness, but at the same time he wants to keep what he was as king. |
| Explain this quote from lines 55-58: "Forgive me my foul murder? That cannot be, since I am still possessed of those effect for which I did that murder, my crown, mine own ambition, and my queen." | |
| Why doesn't Hamlet kill Claudius when he had the opportunity? | He wanted to kill him while he was asleep, not while he was praying. |
| How does Hamlet behaves towards his mother? What happens after the ghost visits? | He speaks cruelly to his mother and tells her to avoid Claudius. |
| What happens to Polonius? | He is stabbed though the curtain by Hamlet. |
| Do you believe that Hamlet when he says he is only pretending to be mad? |
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