Test Retake Revision

Question 1

What is the name of the castle in Hamlet?

Answer 1

Elsinore Castle

Question 2

What is the name of the poison that Claudius pours in Old Hamlet’s ear?

Answer 2

Hebenon

Question 3

Name 3 pairs of antitheses from Claudius’ speech in Act 1 Scene 2?

Answer 3

1. Funeral and Marriage
2. Mirth and Dirge
3. Defeated Joy

Question 4

What was the name of the book written by Reginald Scot in 1584?

Answer 4

Discoverie of Witchcraft

Question 5

Give 2 main ways in which Hamlet is a non-conventional malcontent.

Answer 5

He’s a central protagonist
The audience feel sorry for him
Hamlet has deep psychological questioning

Question 6

What are Hamlet’s first words in the play?

Answer 6

A little more than kin and less than kind

Question 7

With which bodily fluid is the humour of ‘Choleric’ connected?

Answer 7

Yellow Bile

Question 8

Give 3 features of tragedy arising from Aristotle.

Answer 8

Hamartia
Catharsis
Anagnorisis

Question 9

What do violets signify?

Answer 9

Faithfulness

Question 10

Name one of the plans that is hatched in Act 2 Scene 2.

Answer 10

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to find the cause of Hamlet’s madness.

Question 11

How do Hamlet and Laertes express their anger during the funeral of Ophelia?

Answer 11

They both jump onto Ophelia’s grave and have a fight.

Question 12

Give 3 features of Revenge Tragedy according to Seneca.

Answer 12

5 acts
Elaborate Language
Excessive Violence

Question 13

Complete the quote from Gertrude: “our _____ ______ marriage”

Answer 13

“our O’ERHASTY marriage”

Question 14

What does Tennant’s costume of the muscle-print t-shirt convey in the RSC production?

Answer 14

That Hamlet has hidden power and there are two sides to him.

Question 15

Who wrote the article, which we have studied recently, on the theme of madness?

Answer 15

Will Tosh

Question 16

Complete the quote from Hamlet: “That one may ___________ and _____________”

Answer 16

“That one may SMILE AND SMILE and BE A VILLAIN”

Question 17

In which scene does Hamlet make this quote?

Answer 17

Act 1 Scene 5

Question 18

What is the name of the actor who plays Claudius in the RSC production of Hamlet?

Answer 18

Patrick Stewart

Question 19

Give 3 causes of Elizabethan madness

Answer 19

Excessive Love
State of World Affairs e.g. apparitions, war, murders, spectrums, comets, prodigies.
Mischance

Question 20

What prop does Tennant use at the end of the speech “O all you host of Heaven” in Act 1 Scene 5 of the RSC production?

Answer 20

A knife

Question 21

What is AO5?

Answer 21

Interpretations

Question 22

How does Hamlet describe the ghost in Act 1 Scene 4?

“Be thou a spirit _______ or goblin _________ Bring with thee airs from __________ or blasts from ________”

Answer 22

“Be thou a spirit of HEALTH or goblin DAMN’D bring with thee airs from HEAVEN or blasts from HELL”

Question 23

With which bodily fluid is the humour of melancholy connected?

Answer 23

Black Bile

Question 24

Who directed the RSC production in which Tennant plays Hamlet?

Answer 24

Gregory Doran

Question 25

Give the chronological order of deaths in Act 5 Scene 2

Answer 25

1. Gertrude
2. Claudius
3. Laertes
4. Hamlet