Complete Hamlet Flashcards
The setting for Hamlet is ____
Denmark
As the curtain rises on Act 1, who is the reigning monarch? (one name, no title)
Claudius
The spouse of the current monarch is ____.
Gertrude
The royal castle wherein the sentries see a ghost is____ .
Elsinore
The first character to speak in this play is ____ .
Barnardo
Laertes attends university in ____ .
France
Polonius’ advice to his son is ____ .
sagacious
Who is advised by Father and Brother to avoid Hamlet?
Ophelia
Who, at the end of Scene 1, decides he must inform Hamlet about the ghost’s appearance?
Horatio
What university was Hamlet attending before his father’s funeral?
Wittenburg
How long did the widow of King Hamlet remain a widow?
Less than a month
The king and queen chide Hamlet for ____.
Mourning too long
“Frailty, thy name is ____ .
woman
“This above all:
To thine own self be true
Hamlet delivers the most famous speech in all Western literature in scene 1: what does it mean?
No one, except Shakespeare, knows what it really means
Hamlet’s verbal exchange with Ophelia in scene 1 can best be describes as ____ .
sarcastic and venomous
In “Get thee to a nunnery,” Hamlet means that Ophelia ____ .
should become a nun in order to control her lust
The encounter with Hamlet leaves Ophelia feeling ____.
devastated
Where will Hamlet’s ostensible diplomatic mission lead him?
England
The ‘play-within-a-play begins with a “dumb show,” which is a(n) ____ .
pantomime
When Hamlet asks Gertrude about the players’ performances, her response (re: the queen) was ____ .
The lady doth protest too much, me thinks
The antagonist of the player’s play is ____ .
Lucianus
At the conclusion of the player’s play, Hamlet ____ .
becomes a spolier and blurts out the conclusion
Hamlet accuses Rosencrantz and Guildenstern of ____.
playing him as if he were a musical instrument
In Gertrude’s chambers, Polonius hides behind a(n) ____ .
arras
Polonius is felled by ____ .
a fatal stabbing
Hamlet does not kill Claudius when he has the chance to because he doesn’t ____.
He does not want Claudius to go to Heaven
Hamlet’s treatment of his mother in her bedroom is all of the following except ____.
sublime
What happens to Polonius’ body?
Hamlet hides it
To what creature does Hamlet liken Rosencrantz in Act 4, scene 3?
a sponge
Hamlet is evasive with Claudius when answering about Polonius’ body. Which of the following is not one of Hamlet’s responses?
in the chapel
Who inspires Hamlet to at last take action?
Young Fortinbras
When Laertes returns, his emotional state is best described as ____ .
infuriated
How does Hamlet get back to Denmark?
on a pirate ship
What two conveyances do Claudius and Laertes purport to use against Hamlet?
- poisoned sword
- poisoned wine
Who informs Laertes of Ophelia’s death?
Gertrude
Who speaks the lines “Now cracks a noble heart. Good night, sweet prince, and may flights of angels sing the to thy rest”?
Horatio
Throughout the play, Hamlet puns on step-mother and mother by calling Gertrude ____ .
good mother
What is the ghost wearing when it appears to Hamlet in Gertrude’s chambers?
nightgown
What drama did Polonius once play a part in?
The Mousetrap
Gert: Hamlet, thou hast thou father much offended.
Ham: Mother, you have my father much offended.
Gert: Come, come, you answer with an idle tongue.
Ham: Go, go, you question with a wicked tongue.
In Act 3, Hamlet is confronted by his mother following the play-in-the-play wherein sequences of single lines between the characters offer repetition and antithesis. This is called ____ .
stichomythia
During the course of the five acts, how many characters die?
eight
To whom did the skull belong that makes Hamlet pensive ?
Yorick
In a conversation with Guildenstern and Rosencrantz, Hamlet compares Denmark to a(n) ____ .
prison
By the end of the play, Gertrude admits that her remarrying was ____ .
o’er hasty
At the play’s end, who is the new king of Denmark?
Fortinbras
What exactly is Hamlet’s tragic flaw?
Hamlet’s tragic flaw is his indecisiveness and inability to act.