Scene 2

Question 1

What does Claudius speak in?

Answer 1

Iambic pentameter

Question 2

What is Hamlet dressed in?

Answer 2

Black

Question 3

‘Though yet of hamlet our dear …………. Death’

Answer 3

Brothers

Question 4

Why does Claudius use plural voice in his speech in 1.2?

Answer 4

To unite the royal court, suggesting that they share the same grief

Question 5

‘Memory be ……..’

Answer 5

Green

Question 6

‘To bear our…’

Answer 6

Hearts in grief

Question 7

‘In one brow of…’

Answer 7

Woe

Question 8

‘Claudius shows every sign of being an excellent …… and king’ (Knight)

Answer 8

Diplomat

Question 9

How does Claudius deal with the threat of Young Fortinbras?

Answer 9

In a diplomatic way, choosing to writer to Norway (the uncle of young Fortinbras)

Question 10

‘With an auspicious and a dropping ….’

Answer 10

Eye

Question 11

‘Nor have we herein barr’d your…;

Answer 11

Between wisdoms

Question 12

In the Branagh version, what does Claudius do with the letter to show strength?

Answer 12

He tears it up

Question 13

How is Claudius different to old Hamlet?

Answer 13

He’s much more diplomatic then the violent, warrior like old Hamlet

Question 14

Hamlet is dressed in ‘suits of ……… black’

Answer 14

Solemn

Question 15

What words does Claudius use to appear balanced and logical?

Answer 15

‘Therefore/ though/ yet’

Question 16

‘………… madam? Nay, it is. I know not ‘………’

Answer 16

Seems / seems

Question 17

‘A little more than kin, and less than …..’

Answer 17

Kind

Question 18

‘I have than within which passes …….’

Answer 18

Show

Question 19

‘Ay, ……… it is common’

Answer 19

Madam

Question 20

What formal term does hamlet call his mother?

Answer 20

Madam

Question 21

What technique is ‘a little more than kin, and less than kind’

Answer 21

A pun

Question 22

What negator does hamlet repeat to his mother?

Answer 22

Nor

Question 23

‘But i have that within which passes …….. these but the trappings and the suits of ……’

Answer 23

Show / woe

Question 24

‘For they are actions that a man might …..’

Answer 24

Play

Question 25

The play is mainly defined by…

Answer 25

Soliloquy

Question 26

‘Too sullied …….’

Answer 26

Flesh

Question 27

What doe Hamlets soliloquy introduce?

Answer 27

The motif of decay and disease

Question 28

‘Weary, stale, flat and …..’

Answer 28

Unprofitable

Question 29

‘Tis an unweeded ……’

Answer 29

Garden

Question 30

‘Things ….. and …….. in nature’

Answer 30

Rank / gross

Question 31

‘Hyperion to a ……’

Answer 31

Satyr

Question 32

Who is Hyperion

Answer 32

The sun god

Question 33

Why does Hamlet compare his father to Hyperion?

Answer 33

To suggest that his father was the centre of his universe and to introduce filial duty

Question 34

What is a satyr?

Answer 34

A lustful half man, half goat

Question 35

‘Frailty, thy name is….’

Answer 35

Woman

Question 36

‘A ……… that wants discourse of reason who have mourn’d longer’

Answer 36

Beast

Question 37

Which figure may have influenced Gertrude?

Answer 37

Mary Queen of Scots

Question 38

What did mary do that is similar to Gertrude?

Answer 38

Failed to serve a proper mourning period for her husband and married the man that was accused of murdering her husband

Question 39

Where is Laertes allowed to go back to?

Answer 39

University of Paris

Question 40

Who is polonious?

Answer 40

A royal advisor and father to laertes and Ophelia

Question 41

‘A ……. In the youth of primy nature’

Answer 41

Violet

Question 42

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