Hamlet

Question 1

Disease - Denmark 1

Answer 1

“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.” Act 1

Question 2

Disease - Denmark 2

Answer 2

“Denmark’s a prison” Act 2

Question 3

Disease - mousetrap

Answer 3

“…pours poison in the sleeper’s ears.” Act 3

Question 4

Disease - contagion

Answer 4

“When churchyards yawn, and hell itself breathes out/ Contagion to this world.” Act 3

Question 5

Disease - Ophelia

Answer 5

“the poison of deep grief” Act 4

Question 6

Hamlet - quintessence

Answer 6

“The beauty of the world, the paragon of animals – and/ yet to me, what is this quintessence of dust?” Act 2

Question 7

Hamlet - to be or not to be

Answer 7

“whether t’is nobler in the mind to suffer/ the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune/ or to take arms against a sea of troubles.” Act 3

Question 8

Hamlet- Claudius

Answer 8

“When sorrows come, they come not single spies,/ But in battalions.” Act 4

Question 9

Theology - heaven and earth

Answer 9

“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,/ than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” Act 1

Question 10

Theology - pall

Answer 10

“When our deep plots do pall, and that should learn us,/ there’s a divinity that shapes our ends.” To Horatio Act 5

Question 11

Theology - scourge and minister

Answer 11

“I must be their scourge and minister.” To Gertrude Act 3

Question 12

Theology - sparrow

Answer 12

“There is special providence in/ the fall of a sparrow.” Act 5

Question 13

Theology - allusion

Answer 13

Luke 12:7 “five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God. Even the very hairs on your head are numbered. Fear not therefore: you are of more value than many sparrows.”