Act 1 quiz
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| Connotations/understandings of prince: | - Age
- Education
- Social expectations
- Power
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| Setting | Denmark (Elsinore) late middle ages (14/15th century)
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| King Hamlet is dead and his brother, Claudius, has taken the throne | True.
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| Who joins Bernardo and Francisco, the watchman, on his watch of the castle? | Marcellus and Horatio
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| What do Marcellus and Bernardo want to show Horatio? | A ghost
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| What proves to Horatio that the ghost is that of King Hamlet? | His armor
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| How does Horatio explain the appearance of King Hamlet’s ghost? | He says it’s a warning sign.
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| Claudius has married the late king's wife | True
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| Opening of Scene 1 | - It's midnight, cold, bitter, dark
- Changing guards
- Bernardo and Francisco have seen a ghost
- The ghost looks like the king
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| Unnatural phenomenon is clearly connected to the human world meaning something is out of place w the humans | True
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| Who is Fortinbras? | Prince of Norway
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| Who is now married to King Hamlet’s wife? | Claudius
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| What does King Claudius say he is in mourning over? | The death of his brother
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| What do Claudius and Gertrude want Prince Hamlet to do? | Stay close to them
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| Who is Claudius? | King of Denmark
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| What does Prince Hamlet contemplate doing because he is so upset? | Killing himself
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| What does Fortinbras want from Claudius? | Lands that once belonged to Norway
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| What does Laertes warn Ophelia about? | Falling in love with Hamlet
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| What is Laertes’ main objection to Ophelia’s feelings? | Hamlet has obligations to his country.
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| What does Polonius say about Ophelia’s relationship with Hamlet? | He forbids her from seeing him anymore.
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| Hamlet's friend from a university in Wittenberg | Horatio
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| The Queen of Denmark | Gertrude
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| the father of Laertes and Ophelia | Polonius
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| Polonius’s daughter, a beautiful young woman with whom Hamlet has been in love | Ophelia
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| Polonius’s son and Ophelia’s brother/ wants to go back to France | Laertes
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| What does Hamlet overhear while waiting for the ghost to appear? | The revelry of the King
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| Why do Horatio and Marcellus follow after Hamlet and the ghost? | To protect Hamlet
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| How did Hamlet’s father die? | He was poisoned by Claudius putting poison in his ear
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| Who does the ghost of Hamlet’s father say killed him? | Claudius
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| What does the ghost of King Hamlet say about Gertrude, his wife? | He tells Hamlet to leave her alone.
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| What does Hamlet tell Horatio and Marcellus about his plan? | That he may pretend to be crazy
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| "Thou art a scholar, speak to it Horatio" | Marcellus
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| Which characters open the Act? | Barnardo, Francisco
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| "It harrows me with fear and wonder" | Horatio
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| "And then it started like a guilty thing upon a fearful summons" | Horatio
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| "With mirth in funeral, and with dirge in marriage, In equal scale weighing delight and dole, Taken to wife." | Claudius
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| Claudius asks "What wouldst thou have, Laertes?" What does Laertes want? | To return to France.
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| "The head is not more native to the heart, The hand more instrumental to the mouth, Than is the throne of Denmark to thy father." | Claudius
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| Where does the Queen ask Hamlet not to go? | Wittenberg
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| Where has Horatio come from? | Wittenberg
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| What is the relationship between Laertes and Ophelia? | Brother and Sister
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| "Do not, as some ungracious pastor do,/ Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven,/ Whiles, like a puffed and reckless libertine,/Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads" | Ophelia
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| Why does Laertes doubt Hamlet's affections for Ophelia? | Because Hamlet is the Prince and must marry a suitable wife.
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| What does Polonius command Ophelia at the end of Scene Three? | Not to speak to Hamlet again.
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| "Be thou a spirit of heaven or goblin damned" | Hamlet
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| "The time is out of joint; O curs'd spite, That ever I was born to set it right!" | Hamlet
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| Horatio has a theory of the reason for the appearance of the Ghost. What is it? | Possible invasion by young Fortinbras.
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| Who are Cornelius and Valtemand? | Ambassadors
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| Who asks for permission to return to France? | Laertes
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| Who killed King Hamlet? | Claudius
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| Who is Polonius? | - Father to Laertes
- Father to Ophelia
- Lord Chamberlain to King Claudius
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| Who is Gertrude? | Queen of Denmark
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| True or False: Horatio doesn’t want Hamlet to follow the ghost because he is afraid it will kill him. | True
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| Why were the guards nervous? | They saw a ghost
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| Who is attempting to invade Denmark? | Norway
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| Who tells Ophelia she cannot see Hamlet anymore? | Polonius
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| What is the relationship between Hamlet and Ophelia? | Lovers
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| How do the people of Denmark think the King died? | A snake bite
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| Why does Horatio attempt to speak to the ghost? | He is the most intelligent
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| Why is Hamlet upset? | - His father is dead
- His mother is marrying his uncle
- People have forgotten about his father quickly
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| "A little more than kin, and less than kind" | Hamlet
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| "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark" | Marcellus
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| "There are more things in heaven and on earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy" | Hamlet
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| "O my prophetic soul" | Hamlet
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| "Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice" | Polonius
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| "Foul deeds will rise, though all earths o'erwhelm them to men's eyes" | Hamlet
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| "Neither a borrower or lender be" | Polonius
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| "Apparel oft proclaims the man" | Polonius
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| "This above all, to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not them be false to any man" | Polonius
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| "O that this too too solid flesh would melt, Thaw and resolve itself into a dew, Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd His canon self 'gainst self slaughter" | Hamlet
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| "Frailty, the name is woman!" | Hamlet
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| "This bodes some strange eruption to our state" | Horatio
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| "'Seems,' madam? Nay, it is. I know not 'seems.'" | Hamlet
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| "Such was the very armour he had on/ When he the ambitious Norway combatted./ So frowned he once, when, in an angry parle,/ He smote the sledded Pollacks on the ice." | Horatio
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| " . . . Our last king/ Whose image even but now appear'd to us . . . Of this post-haste and romage in the land." | Horatio
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| "A mote is to trouble the mind's eye." | Horatio
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| "A little ere the mightiest Julius fell,/ The grave stood tenantless . . . " | Horatio
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| " . . . That it us befitted/ To bear our hearts in grief and our whole kingdom/ To be contracted in one brow of woe . . . " | King Claudius
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| "Therefore our sometime sister, now our queen,/ Th' imperial jointress to this warlike state . . . " | King Claudius
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| "How is it that the clouds still hang on you?" | King Claudius
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| "Not so, my lord. I am too much in the sun." | Hamlet
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| " . . . The funeral baked meats/ Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables." | Hamlet
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| "If it assume my noble father's person,/ I'll speak to it, though Hell itself should gape/ And bid me hold my peace." | Hamlet
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| " . . . Perhaps he loves you now,/ And now no soil nor cautel doth besmirch/ The virtue of his will, but you must fear." | Laertes
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| "Fear it, Ophelia. Fear it, my dear sister,/ And keep you in the rear of your affection,/ Out of the shot and danger of desire." | Laertes
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| "I shall the effect of this good lesson keep/ As watchman to my heart." | Ophelia
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| " . . . Give thy thoughts no tongue,/ Nor any unproportioned thought his act." | Polonius
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| "You do not understand yourself so clearly/ As it behooves my daughter and your honor." | Polonius
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| " . . . The dram of evil/ Doth all the noble substance of a doubt/ To his own scandal." | Hamlet
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| "I do not set my life in a pin's fee . . . " | Hamlet
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| "But know, thought noble youth,/ The serpent that did sting thy father's life/ Now wears his crown." | Ghost of Hamlet
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| "Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder." | Ghost of Hamlet
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| "And now, good friends,/ As you are friends, scholars and soldiers,/ Give me one poor request . . ./ Never make known what you have seen tonight." | Hamlet
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| "cast thy nighted color off,/ And let thing eye look like a friend on Denmark" (69). | Gertrude
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| "forward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting," (8). | Laertes
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| "Then weigh what loss your honor may sustain" (29). | Laertes
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| "Marry, I’ll teach you. Think yourself a baby" | Polonius
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| "Affection! Pooh, you speak like a green girl, Unsifted in such perilous circumstance." | Polonius
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