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Hamlet quiz
Act 1 quiz
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Connotations/understandings of prince: | - Age - Education - Social expectations - Power |
| Setting | Denmark (Elsinore) late middle ages (14/15th century) |
| King Hamlet is dead and his brother, Claudius, has taken the throne | True. |
| Who joins Bernardo and Francisco, the watchman, on his watch of the castle? | Marcellus and Horatio |
| What do Marcellus and Bernardo want to show Horatio? | A ghost |
| What proves to Horatio that the ghost is that of King Hamlet? | His armor |
| How does Horatio explain the appearance of King Hamlet’s ghost? | He says it’s a warning sign. |
| Claudius has married the late king's wife | True |
| 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 |
| Unnatural phenomenon is clearly connected to the human world meaning something is out of place w the humans | True |
| Who is Fortinbras? | Prince of Norway |
| Who is now married to King Hamlet’s wife? | Claudius |
| What does King Claudius say he is in mourning over? | The death of his brother |
| What do Claudius and Gertrude want Prince Hamlet to do? | Stay close to them |
| Who is Claudius? | King of Denmark |
| What does Prince Hamlet contemplate doing because he is so upset? | Killing himself |
| What does Fortinbras want from Claudius? | Lands that once belonged to Norway |
| What does Laertes warn Ophelia about? | Falling in love with Hamlet |
| What is Laertes’ main objection to Ophelia’s feelings? | Hamlet has obligations to his country. |
| What does Polonius say about Ophelia’s relationship with Hamlet? | He forbids her from seeing him anymore. |
| Hamlet's friend from a university in Wittenberg | Horatio |
| The Queen of Denmark | Gertrude |
| the father of Laertes and Ophelia | Polonius |
| Polonius’s daughter, a beautiful young woman with whom Hamlet has been in love | Ophelia |
| Polonius’s son and Ophelia’s brother/ wants to go back to France | Laertes |
| What does Hamlet overhear while waiting for the ghost to appear? | The revelry of the King |
| Why do Horatio and Marcellus follow after Hamlet and the ghost? | To protect Hamlet |
| How did Hamlet’s father die? | He was poisoned by Claudius putting poison in his ear |
| Who does the ghost of Hamlet’s father say killed him? | Claudius |
| What does the ghost of King Hamlet say about Gertrude, his wife? | He tells Hamlet to leave her alone. |
| What does Hamlet tell Horatio and Marcellus about his plan? | That he may pretend to be crazy |
| "Thou art a scholar, speak to it Horatio" | Marcellus |
| Which characters open the Act? | Barnardo, Francisco |
| "It harrows me with fear and wonder" | Horatio |
| "And then it started like a guilty thing upon a fearful summons" | Horatio |
| "With mirth in funeral, and with dirge in marriage, In equal scale weighing delight and dole, Taken to wife." | Claudius |
| Claudius asks "What wouldst thou have, Laertes?" What does Laertes want? | To return to France. |
| "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 |
| Where does the Queen ask Hamlet not to go? | Wittenberg |
| Where has Horatio come from? | Wittenberg |
| What is the relationship between Laertes and Ophelia? | Brother and Sister |
| "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 |
| Why does Laertes doubt Hamlet's affections for Ophelia? | Because Hamlet is the Prince and must marry a suitable wife. |
| What does Polonius command Ophelia at the end of Scene Three? | Not to speak to Hamlet again. |
| "Be thou a spirit of heaven or goblin damned" | Hamlet |
| "The time is out of joint; O curs'd spite, That ever I was born to set it right!" | Hamlet |
| Horatio has a theory of the reason for the appearance of the Ghost. What is it? | Possible invasion by young Fortinbras. |
| Who are Cornelius and Valtemand? | Ambassadors |
| Who asks for permission to return to France? | Laertes |
| Who killed King Hamlet? | Claudius |
| Who is Polonius? | - Father to Laertes - Father to Ophelia - Lord Chamberlain to King Claudius |
| Who is Gertrude? | Queen of Denmark |
| True or False: Horatio doesn’t want Hamlet to follow the ghost because he is afraid it will kill him. | True |
| Why were the guards nervous? | They saw a ghost |
| Who is attempting to invade Denmark? | Norway |
| Who tells Ophelia she cannot see Hamlet anymore? | Polonius |
| What is the relationship between Hamlet and Ophelia? | Lovers |
| How do the people of Denmark think the King died? | A snake bite |
| Why does Horatio attempt to speak to the ghost? | He is the most intelligent |
| Why is Hamlet upset? | - His father is dead - His mother is marrying his uncle - People have forgotten about his father quickly |
| "A little more than kin, and less than kind" | Hamlet |
| "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark" | Marcellus |
| "There are more things in heaven and on earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy" | Hamlet |
| "O my prophetic soul" | Hamlet |
| "Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice" | Polonius |
| "Foul deeds will rise, though all earths o'erwhelm them to men's eyes" | Hamlet |
| "Neither a borrower or lender be" | Polonius |
| "Apparel oft proclaims the man" | Polonius |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "Frailty, the name is woman!" | Hamlet |
| "This bodes some strange eruption to our state" | Horatio |
| "'Seems,' madam? Nay, it is. I know not 'seems.'" | Hamlet |
| "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 |
| " . . . Our last king/ Whose image even but now appear'd to us . . . Of this post-haste and romage in the land." | Horatio |
| "A mote is to trouble the mind's eye." | Horatio |
| "A little ere the mightiest Julius fell,/ The grave stood tenantless . . . " | Horatio |
| " . . . That it us befitted/ To bear our hearts in grief and our whole kingdom/ To be contracted in one brow of woe . . . " | King Claudius |
| "Therefore our sometime sister, now our queen,/ Th' imperial jointress to this warlike state . . . " | King Claudius |
| "How is it that the clouds still hang on you?" | King Claudius |
| "Not so, my lord. I am too much in the sun." | Hamlet |
| " . . . The funeral baked meats/ Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables." | Hamlet |
| "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 |
| " . . . Perhaps he loves you now,/ And now no soil nor cautel doth besmirch/ The virtue of his will, but you must fear." | Laertes |
| "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 |
| "I shall the effect of this good lesson keep/ As watchman to my heart." | Ophelia |
| " . . . Give thy thoughts no tongue,/ Nor any unproportioned thought his act." | Polonius |
| "You do not understand yourself so clearly/ As it behooves my daughter and your honor." | Polonius |
| " . . . The dram of evil/ Doth all the noble substance of a doubt/ To his own scandal." | Hamlet |
| "I do not set my life in a pin's fee . . . " | Hamlet |
| "But know, thought noble youth,/ The serpent that did sting thy father's life/ Now wears his crown." | Ghost of Hamlet |
| "Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder." | Ghost of Hamlet |
| "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 |
| "cast thy nighted color off,/ And let thing eye look like a friend on Denmark" (69). | Gertrude |
| "forward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting," (8). | Laertes |
| "Then weigh what loss your honor may sustain" (29). | Laertes |
| "Marry, I’ll teach you. Think yourself a baby" | Polonius |
| "Affection! Pooh, you speak like a green girl, Unsifted in such perilous circumstance." | Polonius |
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