hamelt- act 2

Question 1

who does polonius hire to spy on his son

Answer 1

Reynaldo

Question 2

what does polonius not care about his son doing

Answer 2

typical wild behavior of cllege student

Question 3

what are slight sullies

Answer 3

drinking
gambling
whoring

Question 4

“by indirections find directions out”
speaker?
listener?

Answer 4

polonius to reynaldo

Question 5

what does polonius think is wrong with hamelt

Answer 5

he is depressed at the rejection by ophelia

Question 6

what does the king and queen promise R and G in return for their help

Answer 6

good favour from the king

Question 7

what does Gertrude realize

Answer 7

that her son is upset by the quick marriage and death of fatehr

Question 8

who brings the message from fortinbras

Answer 8

voltimand

Question 9

Uncle forntinbras says that

Answer 9

young fortinbras will not attack denmark

Question 10

young fortinbras asks claudius permission for what

Answer 10

traveling through denmark in order to invade poland

Question 11

“More matter with less art””
spekaer? to who?
meaning

Answer 11

gertrude to polonius

get to the point, stop being wordy

Question 12

what is a fishmonger

Answer 12

a pimp

Question 13

why does hamlet call polonius a fishmonger

Answer 13

because he is using his daughter

Question 14

why does hamlet put on his antic disposition

Answer 14

so he can get close to claudius

Question 15

“in the secret parts of fortune? O, most true; she is a a strumpet
What’s the news?”

Answer 15

hamlet

Question 16

“denmarks a prison”

Answer 16

hamlet

Question 17

comparing denmark to a prison is an allusion to what book

Answer 17

paradise lost

Question 18

what does hamlet realize about R and G

Answer 18

that they are there to spy on him

Question 19

to hamlet, the sky is the _______ of _____ and man is the _____ of ____

Answer 19

congregation of vapors

man is the quintessence of dust

Question 20

having no delight in men at the time meant that one would not be

Answer 20

entertained

Question 21

the company of popular children is compared to a

Answer 21

hawk

Question 22

“when the wind is southerly I
Know a _____ from a _______
speaker?

Answer 22

hawk
handsaw
hamlet

Question 23

hamlet also calls Polonius a reference to the bible, a figure who sacrificed his own daughter

Answer 23

Jepthah

Question 24

“there must be a method to his madness”

Answer 24

polonius about hamlet

Question 25

who was the king of troy and died during the fall of troy

Answer 25

Priam

Question 26

why does hamlet tell the players to act out the slaughter of Priam

Answer 26

he wants to see the slaughter of a king

Question 27

gules =

Answer 27

red

Question 28

who killed priam

Answer 28

Pyrrhus

Question 29

who killed achillles ----pyrrhus' father

Answer 29

priam's son, paris

Question 30

bisson rehum

Answer 30

blinding tears

Question 31

priam's wife

Answer 31

hecuba

Question 32

the player acting hecuba did what

Answer 32

cried

Question 33

how is the actor of hecuba a foil to hamlet

Answer 33

this actor is crying over nothing. he does not know hecuba. | hamlet has much to grieve and cry about, but he does not.

Question 34

what does hamlet ask them to play after the death of priam

Answer 34

the murder of gonzago

Question 35

piegon liver'd means

Answer 35

cowardly

Question 36

kites are b

Answer 36

birds of prey

Question 37

hamlet should have already done what

Answer 37

fed the kites with the intestines of claudius

Question 38

"i should have fatted all the region kites"

Answer 38

hamlet

Question 39

"i'll have grounds more relative than this. the play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King" speaker? grounds? this?

Answer 39

hamlet grounds-proof (play within a play) this- the ghosts' word

Question 40

what does hamlet tell the players to do in the murder of gonzago

Answer 40

add a scene where the death of king hamlet is re-enacted

Question 41

first scene of the play, the murder of gonzago

Answer 41

the mousetrap

Question 42

how does ophelia describe how she saw hamlet

Answer 42

oddly dressed, loosed out of hell, stared at her as he walked out of the door

Question 43

brevity is the soul of wit I will be brief

Answer 43

polonius

Question 44

polonius says he will set up hamlet by loosing ophelia to hamlet while doing what

Answer 44

hiding behind curtain

Question 45

polonius calls hamlet's madness pregnant, this means/

Answer 45

full of meaning

Question 46

where does fortune live- _____ -____

Answer 46

strumpet, whore