hamlet act 5

Question 1

act 5 scene 1 is called teh

Answer 1

comic relief scene

Question 2

why is Ophelia at least getting a Christian burial

Answer 2

bc she was a noblewoman

Question 3

the clown assume that ophelia has done what

Answer 3

committed suicide

Question 4

what is the first question asked by the clowns

Answer 4

what is he that builds stronger than the mason, the shipwright, or the carpenter

Question 5

what is the first answer to the clown’s question

Answer 5

gallow maker because its frame outlives a thousand of its tenants

Question 6

what is the answer to the clowns riddle

Answer 6

a grave maker, the house that he makes lasts till dommsday

Question 7

what does unyoke mean

Answer 7

you will be done with your work for today

Question 8

“thou dost lie in’t, to be in’t and say ‘tis thine. ‘tis for the dead, not for the quick; therefore thou liest.”
speaker?
significigance

Answer 8

pun

hamlet

Question 9

what is an act of fate in scene 1

Answer 9

hamlet chooses to talk with horatio in the graveyard when ophelia’s funeral is happening.

Question 10

“how long has the clown been a grave maker

Answer 10

since hamlet was born

Question 11

how old is hamlet

Answer 11

30 years old

Question 12

hamlet was born on what day

Answer 12

the day that king hamlet killed fortinbras

Question 13

there the men are as made as he”

there?

Answer 13

england

Question 14

how long will a tanner’s body last

Answer 14

9 years, one year longer than others

Question 15

who’s skull is dug up

Answer 15

yorik’s the king’s jester

Question 16

how does hamlet know yorik

Answer 16

he used to play with yorik and ride on his shoulders

Question 17

how long has yorik been dead

Answer 17

23 years. he died when hamlet was 7

Question 18

“now get you to my lady’s chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour”
speaker?
to who?
meaning?

Answer 18

that no matter how much make up woman put on, they’ll be dead one day.
hamlet to horatio

Question 19

“and with such maimed rights”

speaker?

Answer 19

hamlet

Question 20

why is the priest mad

Answer 20

that the king ordered ophelia a Christian burial

Question 21

who is furious with the priest for giving ophelia maimed rights

Answer 21

laertes

Question 22

“a ministering angel shall my sister be
when hou liest howling”
speaker?
meaning

Answer 22

laertes to priest

while my sister is in heaven you will rot in hell

Question 23

“now pile your dust upon the quick and dead”

speaker?

Answer 23

laertes,

saying to pile the dirt on her until the mountain is super tall

Question 24

“I loved ophelia. Forty thousand brothers”

speaekr?

Answer 24

hamlet

Question 25

“there’s a divinity that shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we will”
speaker?
menaing?

Answer 25

hamlet
fate is fate
we can do nothing to change it

Question 26

“he should the bearers put to sudden death, not shriving time allowd”

Answer 26

hamlet talking about the letter he replaced that says to the king of england to kill R and G

Question 27

who is like polonius and how

Answer 27

Osric
yes man
very wordy
not very smart

Question 28

“the readiness is all”

Answer 28

hamlet

Question 29

the weapons and cup of wine are surrounded with what FL?

Answer 29

dramatic irony

Question 30

“and when he’s not himself does wrong Laertes, the Hmalet does it not, Hamlet denies it.
who does it then? his madness.

Answer 30

hamlet

Question 31

I stand aloof and will no reconcilement

Answer 31

hamlet

Question 32

who gets the first hit

Answer 32

hamlet

Question 33

after hamlet gives the first hit, what does claudius do

Answer 33

toasts hamlet and tells him to have a drink

Question 34

who drinks from the cup instead

Answer 34

gertrude

Question 35

who do we associate with a pearl

Answer 35

a union between king and queen

Question 36

what happens after laertes wounds hamlet

Answer 36

hamlet pushes laertes, swords drop, swords swap, hamlet wounds laertes with laertes’ sword.

Question 37

“i am justly kill’d with mine own treachery”
speaker/
meaning?

Answer 37

laertes,

poetic justice- live by cheating, die by cheating

Question 38

“is thy union here”
speaker?
meaning?

Answer 38

hamlet says this to claudius while stabbing him and pouring poision down his throat.

Question 39

what does laertes do before dying

Answer 39

forgives hamlet

Question 40

who does hamlet first tell to set everythign straight

Answer 40

horatio

Question 41

what is horatios reply to hamlet’s dying wish

Answer 41

i am more an antique roman than a dane

meaning that he will commit suicide

Question 42

“he has my dying voice”

Answer 42

hamlet saying that fortinbras gets to be king

Question 43

“he never gave commandement for their death”

Answer 43

horatio about hamlet talking about r and g’s death

Question 44

“i have some rights of memory”

Answer 44

fortinbras

Question 45

“o proud death what feast is twoard in thine eternal cell”

Answer 45

fortinbras - apostrophe to death

bodies everywhere

Question 46

“for he was likely , had he been pu on

to have proved most royaL”

Answer 46

fortinbras about hamlet would have been a good king if he had the chance

Question 47

purpose of the deaths

Answer 47

restore order to denmark

Question 48

what did hamlet do while on the ship heading to engnald

Answer 48

snuck into r and g’s cabin. found the letter that warranted his death. changed the letter to say it was r and g’s death and stamped the letter with the ring of his father as it had the official seal of denmark