Act 2 End of Scene 2

Question 1

Polonius astonished at how …. the actor is (the actor … when reciting about …)

Answer 1

good; crying; Hecuba’s own tears

Question 2

It’d be better to have a …. than an … from the actors because they are that good at ….

Answer 2

bad epitaph; ill report; expressing themselves

Question 3

Hamlet pulls 1st player aside and …., asks if he can ….

Answer 3

whispering; perform the play “The Murder of Gonzago”

Question 4

Hamlet’s going to … and insert it into the play so that the actor can … for the performance

Answer 4

write 12-16 lines; memorize it

Question 5

(hamlet’s 2nd soliloquy) Hamlet is now a character who bears his soul to …, we don’t know if soliloquy is also …

Answer 5

no one; antic disposition

Question 6

(hamlet’s 2nd soliloquy) Hamlet is primarily …, as to be … is to be ….; but why did he choose the antic disposition approach so quickly? is he a …?

Answer 6

dishonest; honest; found out; practiced liar

Question 7

(hamlet’s 2nd soliloquy) “Now i am alone” → Hamlet is deeply aware that he is …, we are participating in the ….

Answer 7

never alone; espionage against him

Question 8

(hamlet’s 2nd soliloquy) H. calls himself a “rogue and peasant slave” →

Answer 8

base, degenerate person

Question 9

(hamlet’s 2nd soliloquy) Hamlet contemplates the level of … the actors can engender for … (for …)

Answer 9

emotion; nothing; Hecuba

Question 10

(hamlet’s 2nd soliloquy) Hamlet asks what the actor would do if he’d been … as Hamlet was: the actor would …. yet I (Hamlet) do …

Answer 10

wronged; change people’s lives; nothing

Question 11

(hamlet’s 2nd soliloquy) Interpretations for what is Hamlet’s problem: Why hasn’t he ….? Why is he more … at …?

Answer 11

killed Claudius yet; angry; Gertrude

Question 12

(hamlet’s 2nd soliloquy) Answer for why H. hasn’t killed Claudius yet? he is stalling because of …, … of what to do, … (?)

Answer 12

guilt; uncertain; consequences

Question 13

(hamlet’s 2nd soliloquy) Hamlet is expressing … for not really …

Answer 13

internal guilt; addressing his problem

Question 14

(hamlet’s 2nd soliloquy) H. claims that he is unwilling to do anything for … or …; is Hamlet a …?

Answer 14

himself; his father; coward

Question 15

(hamlet’s 2nd soliloquy) Hamlet calls himself a

Answer 15

coward

Question 16

(hamlet’s 2nd soliloquy) Hamlet attacks himself for

Answer 16

everything

Question 17

(hamlet’s 2nd soliloquy) Hamlet questions why he is letting

Answer 17

everyone do these things to him

Question 18

(hamlet’s 2nd soliloquy) Hamlet calls himself a … to other people’s …

Answer 18

slave; will

Question 19

(hamlet’s 2nd soliloquy) All hamlet thinks he is doing is …. → no …

Answer 19

talking about it; action

Question 20

(hamlet’s 2nd soliloquy) self deprecation … and … begins

Answer 20

breaks; scheming

Question 21

(hamlet’s 2nd soliloquy) Hamlet is going to have actors do a play involving

Answer 21

regicide

Question 22

(hamlet’s 2nd soliloquy) Hamlet will learn 3 things from Claudius’s reaction to play on regicide: if Claudius looks …, he will know if he ….; killing Claudius is …, nature of …. (as …); gets …. out of him, therefore the murder would be…

Answer 22

guilty; killed his father; justice; ghost; father; subtle confession; justice

Question 23

(hamlet’s 2nd soliloquy) seems as if Hamlet already … before the soliloquy but is acting as though he …

Answer 23

had the plan; just came up with it

Question 24

(hamlet’s 2nd soliloquy) play is …; tells us Hamlet’s soliloquy cannot be …

Answer 24

flawed; entirely trusted

Question 25

(hamlet’s 2nd soliloquy) only characters with asides and soliloquies are

Answer 25

Polonius & Hamlet