Critics

Question 1

1) the opening scene of hamlet is well __ as that of any play ever written (T.S __)

Answer 1

1) constructed
2) Elliot

Question 2

2) the aim of __ is to arouse sensations of pity and __ (__)

Answer 2

1) tragedy
2) fear
3) aristotle

Question 3

3) Claudius shows every sign of begin an excellent __ and king (__)

Answer 3

1) diplomat
2) knight

Question 4

4) all duties seem __ to hamlet (von __)

Answer 4

1) holy
2) goethe

Question 5

5) Hamlet is rather an __ than an agent (__)

Answer 5

1)Instrument
2) Johnson

Question 6

6) Hamlet can be privileged in madness to say things about the __ of human nature (__)

Answer 6

1) corruption
2) mack

Question 7

7) Hamlet seems __of deliberate action (__)

Answer 7

1)incapable
2) hazlitt

Question 8

8) Hamlets delay is due to a form of __ (__)

Answer 8

1)melancholy
2) bradley

Question 9

9) the single characteristics of Hamlets character is by no means __ but the strong conflux of __ forces (__)

Answer 9

1) hesitation
2) contending
3) swinbourne

Question 10

10) Hamlet is a tragedy of __ (__)

Answer 10

1) thought
2) Bradley

Question 11

11) women are either __ maiden saints or loathsome sinners and the deciding factor is nearly always sex (__)

Answer 11

1) innocent
2) mcgrory

Question 12

12) Ophelia is deprived of thought,__ and language (__)

Answer 12

1) sexuality
2) showalter

Question 13

13) in Shakespeare’s society the __ female is cherished for her youth, __ and purity (__)

Answer 13

1) ideal
2) beauty
3) rogers

Question 14

14) we can imagine hamlets story without ophelia but ophelia literally has no __ without hamlet (__)

Answer 14

1) story
2) edwards

Question 15

15) Hamlets disgust at the feminine __ in himself is translated into violent revulsion against women (__)

Answer 15

1) passivity
2) swinbourne

Question 16

16) __ is not a monster he is morally weak (__)

Answer 16

1) Claudius
2) mabillard

Question 17

17) Claudius’ soliloquy gives the impression of __ pageantry rather than sincere contrition (__)

Answer 17

1) rhetorical
2) arnold

Question 18

18) this scene is further proof that Hamlet is incapable of __ __ (__)

Answer 18

1) deliberate
2) action
3) hazlitt

Question 19

19) Gertrude is a moral __ (__)

Answer 19

1) defective
2) muir

Question 20

20) the ghost is the __ of __ (__)

Answer 20

1) linchpin
2) Hamlet
3) wilson

Question 21

21) throughout the play the covert drama of reformation vies for priority with __ drama of revenge (__)

Answer 21

1) overt
2) adelman

Question 22

22) through madness ophelia suddenly makes a __ assertion of her being (__)

Answer 22

1) forceful
2) charney

Question 23

23) Hamlets madness is associated with __ and imaginative genius but Ophelia’s affliction is __ or love- madness (__)

Answer 23

1) interllectual
2) erotomania
3) showalter

Question 24

24) Laertes is like a __ he rushes into the palace in an uncontrolled rage, roaring for blood (__)

Answer 24

1) hurricane
2) prosser

Question 25

25) Ophelia is a __ we have never really known (__)

Answer 25

1) lesser
2) kerrigan

Question 26

26) In the final act, Hamlet accepts his __ and we discover a __ man (__)

Answer 26

1) world
2) different
3) mack

Question 27

27) Hamlet is a tragedy without __ (__)

Answer 27

1) catharsis
2) frye

Question 28

28) Hamlet poses great problems for the tragic hero __ because he is __ not a hero (__)

Answer 28

1) theory
2) patently
3) O’Toole