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What is the setting of Hamlet
Norway
England
Denmark
Scandinavia
Which of these is not a Night Watchman?
Bernardo
Horatio
Marcellus
Francisco
Who killed King Fortinbras?
King Claudius
King Hamlet
Prince Fortinbras
Mercenaries
"There's something rotten in the state of Denmark."
Gertrude
Hamlet
Horatio
Marcellus
Who is Laertes and Ophelia's father?
King Claudius
Polonius
Fortinbras
King Hamlet
Why is Hamlet so angry at the beginning of the play?
His mom killed his dad.
Him dad ran off with Ophelia.
Claudius married his mother.
His mother married Polonius.
"Cast thy nighted color off"
Claudius
Gertrude
Polonius
Horatio
What was the country told about how King Hamlet died?
A snake
A heart attack
A stroke
They don't know
How was King Hamlet killed?
Heart Attack
In battle with Fortinbras
Bow and arrow
Poison in the ear
What does King Hamlet ask his son to do?
Kill Prince Fortinbras
Get revenge on Claudius
Pray to God to heal the Great Chain
Commit suicide
"The funeral baked meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables."
Horatio, stating that the food is cold at the wedding.
Hamlet, saying that they baked all the meat as a funeral event
Hamlet, saying that they put the tables together to hold all the funeral food.
Hamlet, sarcastically talking about how close together the funeral and marriage are.
Where does Laertes want to go back to school?
Wittenburg
France
England
Elsinore
Who warns Ophelia about being with Hamlet?
Gertrude and Claudius
Horatio and Laertes
Polonius and Laertes
Just Polonius
"Neither a borrower nor a lender be."
King Hamlet to Hamlet telling him what to do after he died.
Polonius to Laertes telling him not to borrow or lend money.
Claudius to Hamlet telling him he can't borrow a carriage to go back to school
Polonius to Ophelia telling her not to spend time with Hamlet
"Frailty, thy name is woman"
Hamlet, giving us his girlfriend's name.
King Hamlet calling his wife weak.
Laertes, giving us his sister's name.
Hamlet, calling his mom (and by extension, all women) weak.
What does Hamlet make the Horatio and the night watchmen swear?
Not to tell anyone about the ghost.
To help him get revenge.
To kill his mother.
To follow the ghost.
Why does Marcellus think Horatio should speak to the ghost?
Marcellus doesn't think Horatio should speak to the ghost at all.
Because he doesn't believe in ghosts, so he's not afraid.
Because Horatio is Hamlet's best friend and the ghost will listen.
Because he's a scholar and the smartest of the men there and would know how to answer.
"Oh, that this too, too solid would melt and resolve into a dew and that the Everlasting had not fixed his canon 'gainst self-slaughter."
Horatio wants to have Claudius murdered.
Hamlet wants to fire a cannon at Fortinbras to melt his flesh
Hamlet wants to disappear and die
Hamlet wants have a bonfire and pray
Hamlet's "antic disposition" means
He's going to throw up
He's angry
He's suicidal
He's going to pretend to be crazy.
A device the playwright uses to give us a character's inner thoughts and emotions.
Role
Soliloquy
Aside
allusion
Mark all that apply: Hamlet
young
old
noble/ruling class
working class
Mark all that apply: Queen Gertrude
young
old
noble/ruling class
working class
Define the speaker: My lord, he hath importuned me with love in honorable fashion-
Ghost
Laertes
Hamlet
Ophelia
Define the speaker: 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.
Ghost
Laertes
Hamlet
Ophelia
Define the speaker: Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder.
Ghost
Laertes
Hamlet
Ophelia
Which country will soon attack?
points
London
Denmark
Norway
France
Malicious means
to beg
evil or mean
ghost
to eliminate
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