quiz 24

Question 1

What did Catherine of Aragon failed to provide that lead Henry 8th to seek a Nullification?

Answer 1

A living son

Question 2

T/F: if an Englishman in WS”s Time believe that marrying his brothers wife would not be incest, he would also likely believe 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 in Avenger pretending insanity?

Answer 3

Revenge tragedies

Question 4

To which two sins is Hamlet seriously tempted?

Answer 4

Suicide and revenge/murder

Question 5

What motivation does Hamlet have that fortinbras and laertes do not have?

Answer 5

Incest (mother Marry’s father’s brother)

Question 6

In terms of this tragic structure, what serious mistake by Hamlet catapults the action toward the significant misfortune?

Answer 6

Killing Polonius

Question 7

In terms of the tragic structure, what is Hamlet’s 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 mother’s marriage to his father’s brother

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 some doubtful phrase”?

Answer 13

Put on an antic disposition

Question 14

Against who will Fortinbras employ those soldiers?

Answer 14

The polaks

Question 15

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

Answer 15

Reject Hamlets Love letter

Question 16

T/F: Hamlet is sarcastic, saying that 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 dessert?

Answer 17

Whipping

Question 18

With what does Hamlet say he will catch the conscience of the King?

Answer 18

A play

Question 19

The king refers to his conscience as a_____?

Answer 19

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 can’t he be forgiven?

Answer 22

He still has the effects for which he did the murder

Question 23

When Hamlet says, “heaven hath pleased it so to punish me with this. What action does the word this referred to?

Answer 23

Killing Polonius

Question 24

To whom is the Queen referring he weeps for what is done?

Answer 24

Hamlet

Question 25

According to Hamlet, what is rightly to be great a) to stir only with great argument or b) to find quarrel in a straw

Answer 25

B) to find quarrel in a 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

Her virgin crants

Question 29

In what way has heaven ordinant that Hamlet could reseal the commission?

Answer 29

He had his father Signet

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 hamlets dying voice to be the new King?

Answer 32

Fortinbras