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Complete Hamlet Flashcards

1
Q

The setting for Hamlet is ____

A

Denmark

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2
Q

As the curtain rises on Act 1, who is the reigning monarch? (one name, no title)

A

Claudius

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3
Q

The spouse of the current monarch is ____.

A

Gertrude

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4
Q

The royal castle wherein the sentries see a ghost is____ .

A

Elsinore

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5
Q

The first character to speak in this play is ____ .

A

Barnardo

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6
Q

Laertes attends university in ____ .

A

France

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7
Q

Polonius’ advice to his son is ____ .

A

sagacious

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8
Q

Who is advised by Father and Brother to avoid Hamlet?

A

Ophelia

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9
Q

Who, at the end of Scene 1, decides he must inform Hamlet about the ghost’s appearance?

A

Horatio

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10
Q

What university was Hamlet attending before his father’s funeral?

A

Wittenburg

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11
Q

How long did the widow of King Hamlet remain a widow?

A

Less than a month

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12
Q

The king and queen chide Hamlet for ____.

A

Mourning too long

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13
Q

“Frailty, thy name is ____ .

A

woman

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14
Q

“This above all:

A

To thine own self be true

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15
Q

Hamlet delivers the most famous speech in all Western literature in scene 1: what does it mean?

A

No one, except Shakespeare, knows what it really means

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16
Q

Hamlet’s verbal exchange with Ophelia in scene 1 can best be describes as ____ .

A

sarcastic and venomous

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17
Q

In “Get thee to a nunnery,” Hamlet means that Ophelia ____ .

A

should become a nun in order to control her lust

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18
Q

The encounter with Hamlet leaves Ophelia feeling ____.

A

devastated

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19
Q

Where will Hamlet’s ostensible diplomatic mission lead him?

A

England

20
Q

The ‘play-within-a-play begins with a “dumb show,” which is a(n) ____ .

A

pantomime

21
Q

When Hamlet asks Gertrude about the players’ performances, her response (re: the queen) was ____ .

A

The lady doth protest too much, me thinks

22
Q

The antagonist of the player’s play is ____ .

A

Lucianus

23
Q

At the conclusion of the player’s play, Hamlet ____ .

A

becomes a spolier and blurts out the conclusion

24
Q

Hamlet accuses Rosencrantz and Guildenstern of ____.

A

playing him as if he were a musical instrument

25
Q

In Gertrude’s chambers, Polonius hides behind a(n) ____ .

A

arras

26
Q

Polonius is felled by ____ .

A

a fatal stabbing

27
Q

Hamlet does not kill Claudius when he has the chance to because he doesn’t ____.

A

He does not want Claudius to go to Heaven

28
Q

Hamlet’s treatment of his mother in her bedroom is all of the following except ____.

A

sublime

29
Q

What happens to Polonius’ body?

A

Hamlet hides it

30
Q

To what creature does Hamlet liken Rosencrantz in Act 4, scene 3?

A

a sponge

31
Q

Hamlet is evasive with Claudius when answering about Polonius’ body. Which of the following is not one of Hamlet’s responses?

A

in the chapel

32
Q

Who inspires Hamlet to at last take action?

A

Young Fortinbras

33
Q

When Laertes returns, his emotional state is best described as ____ .

A

infuriated

34
Q

How does Hamlet get back to Denmark?

A

on a pirate ship

35
Q

What two conveyances do Claudius and Laertes purport to use against Hamlet?

A
  • poisoned sword
  • poisoned wine
36
Q

Who informs Laertes of Ophelia’s death?

A

Gertrude

37
Q

Who speaks the lines “Now cracks a noble heart. Good night, sweet prince, and may flights of angels sing the to thy rest”?

A

Horatio

38
Q

Throughout the play, Hamlet puns on step-mother and mother by calling Gertrude ____ .

A

good mother

39
Q

What is the ghost wearing when it appears to Hamlet in Gertrude’s chambers?

A

nightgown

40
Q

What drama did Polonius once play a part in?

A

The Mousetrap

41
Q

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 ____ .

A

stichomythia

42
Q

During the course of the five acts, how many characters die?

A

eight

43
Q

To whom did the skull belong that makes Hamlet pensive ?

A

Yorick

44
Q

In a conversation with Guildenstern and Rosencrantz, Hamlet compares Denmark to a(n) ____ .

A

prison

45
Q

By the end of the play, Gertrude admits that her remarrying was ____ .

A

o’er hasty

46
Q

At the play’s end, who is the new king of Denmark?

A

Fortinbras

47
Q

What exactly is Hamlet’s tragic flaw?

A

Hamlet’s tragic flaw is his indecisiveness and inability to act.

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