Quiz 24

Question 1

What did Catherine of Aragon fail to provide that led H8 to seek nullification?

Answer 1

a son

Question 2

T/F: If an Englishman in WS’s time believed that marrying his brothers wife would not be incest, he would also likely think that Queen Elizabeth was not a legitimate ruler

Answer 2

True

Question 3

What genre of drama in Elizabethan times always had a ghost and an avenger pretending insanity?

Answer 3

revenge tragedy

Question 4

To which two sins is Hamlet tempted?

Answer 4

suicide and revenge

Question 5

What motivation does Hamlet have that Fortinbras and Laertes do not?

Answer 5

INCEST

Question 6

In terms of the tragic structure, what “serious mistake” by Hamlet catapults the action toward the signifigant misfortune?

Answer 6

killing Polonius

Question 7

In terms of the tragic structure, what is Hamlets tragic strength?

Answer 7

conscience

Question 8

Which character is the most obvious example of “Tragic Waste”?

Answer 8

ophelia

Question 9

Which guard, Bernardo or Francisco, should challenge the other?

Answer 9

Francisco

Question 10

T/F: According to Hamlet, the “suits of solemn black” show his true self

Answer 10

False

Question 11

What is it that Hamlet refers to saying “It is not, nor it cannot come to good”?

Answer 11

his mothers mairrage

Question 12

T/F: Ophelia is obviously lying when she tells her father “i shall obey my lord”

Answer 12

False

Question 13

What does Hamlet plan to do that Horatio and Marcellus might hear him “pronouncing of some doubtful phrases”?

Answer 13

put on an antic disposition

Question 14

Against whom will Fortinbras “employ those soldiers

Answer 14

Poland or Poluck

Question 15

what is Polonius’s reference: “this in obedience hath my daughter shown me”?

Answer 15

Hamlets letter

Question 16

T/F: Hamlet is sarcastic saying that a man “is like god! The beauty of the world”

Answer 16

True

Question 17

According to Hamlet, what will happen to everyone who receives only “after his desert”?

Answer 17

a whipping

Question 18

With what does Hamlet say He’ll catch the conscience of the king”?

Answer 18

the play

Question 19

The king refers to his own conscience as

Answer 19

a heavy burden

Question 20

According to Hamlet, what is the effect of conscience?

Answer 20

it makes cowards of us all

Question 21

To whom is Ophelia most loyal, Hamlet or her father, when answering Hamlets question “where is your father”?

Answer 21

her father

Question 22

Claudius prays “forgive me my foul murder” why cant he be forgiven?

Answer 22

he still posses the effects for which he committed the murder

Question 23

When Hamlet says :”heaven hath pleased it so/ to punish me with this” what action does the word this refer?

Answer 23

Killing polonius

Question 24

To whom is the Queen referring “a weeps for what is done”?

Answer 24

Hamlet

Question 25

According to Hamlet what is rightly to be great?

Answer 25

to find a quarrel in straw

Question 26

To what does Laertes vow allegiance?

Answer 26

the blackest devil

Question 27

According to the king “revenge should have _____ bounds”

Answer 27

no

Question 28

According to the Doctor with what is Ophelia allowed in a Christian burial?

Answer 28

virgin rights

Question 29

In what way “was heaven ordinant” that hamlet could reseal the commission?

Answer 29

he had his father signet in his purse

Question 30

To what does Hamlet refer saying “The readiness is all”?

Answer 30

death

Question 31

Who says “And yet it is almost against my conscience”?

Answer 31

Laertes

Question 32

Who has Hamlet’s dying voice to be the new king?

Answer 32

Fortinbras