Hamlet

Question 1

“The serpent that did sting thy father’s life ___________”

Answer 1

Now wears his crown

Ghost

Question 2

“Taint not thy mind, _______________

Against thy mother aught”

Answer 2

Nor let thy soul contrive

Ghost

Question 3

“At least I’m sure it may be so in ________”

Answer 3

Denmark

Hamlet

Question 4

A little more kin, less than

Answer 4

Kind

Question 5

“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, __________”

Answer 5

Then are dreamt of in your philosophy

Hamlet

Question 6

Oh that this too, _______

Answer 6

Too sullied flesh would melt

Hamlet

Question 7

Neither a ________ or a _________ be

Answer 7

Borrow, lender

Polonium

Question 8

This above all, to thine own self ______

Answer 8

Be true

Polonium

Question 9

“Haste me to know’t, that I, with wings as swift
As meditation or the thoughts of love,
_____________________”

Answer 9

May sweep to my revenge

Hamlet

Question 10

Brevity is the soul _________

Answer 10

Of wit

Polonius

Question 11

More matter,

Answer 11

With less art

Queen Gertrude

Question 12

Words, words,

Answer 12

Words

Hamlet

Question 13

For there is nothing good or bad,

Answer 13

But thinking makes it so

Hamlet

Question 14

What a piece of work is

Answer 14

Man

Hamlet

Question 15

Shakespeare four great tragedies

Answer 15

Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lier, othello

Question 16

Shakespeare’s most widely taught plays

Answer 16

Romeo $ Juliet

Julius ceaser

Question 17

Italicizes or underline

Answer 17

Plays

Question 18

Two of Shakespeare’s histories

Answer 18

King John

King Henry VIII

Question 19

Blank verse

Answer 19

Poetry written in regular metrical but unrhymed lines, almost always iambic pentameter

Question 20

Meter

Answer 20

Determined by the number of stressed syllables

Question 21

Figurative language

Answer 21

A figure of speech in which things that are different are compared with like or as

Question 22

Metaphor

Answer 22

Relating two different things

Question 23

Bard

Answer 23

Professional poet

Question 24

Comedy

Answer 24

Happy ending

More emphasis on situation rather than character

Question 25

Tragedy

Answer 25

A drama

Character with fatal flaw

Question 26

History

Answer 26

Sets up genre/history for play

Question 27

Ben Johnson quote

Answer 27

Shakespeare is not of an age but for all time

Question 28

Monarchs during shakespeare

Answer 28

Elizabeth I & James I

Question 29

Shakespeare’s play groups

Answer 29

Lord chamberlains men and kings men

Question 30

Edward revere

Answer 30

Possible writer of shakespeare plays