Complete Hamlet

Question 1

The setting for Hamlet is ____

Answer 1

Denmark

Question 2

As the curtain rises on Act 1, who is the reigning monarch? (one name, no title)

Answer 2

Claudius

Question 3

The spouse of the current monarch is ____.

Answer 3

Gertrude

Question 4

The royal castle wherein the sentries see a ghost is____ .

Answer 4

Elsinore

Question 5

The first character to speak in this play is ____ .

Answer 5

Barnardo

Question 6

Laertes attends university in ____ .

Answer 6

France

Question 7

Polonius’ advice to his son is ____ .

Answer 7

sagacious

Question 8

Who is advised by Father and Brother to avoid Hamlet?

Answer 8

Ophelia

Question 9

Who, at the end of Scene 1, decides he must inform Hamlet about the ghost’s appearance?

Answer 9

Horatio

Question 10

What university was Hamlet attending before his father’s funeral?

Answer 10

Wittenburg

Question 11

How long did the widow of King Hamlet remain a widow?

Answer 11

Less than a month

Question 12

The king and queen chide Hamlet for ____.

Answer 12

Mourning too long

Question 13

“Frailty, thy name is ____ .

Answer 13

woman

Question 14

“This above all:

Answer 14

To thine own self be true

Question 15

Hamlet delivers the most famous speech in all Western literature in scene 1: what does it mean?

Answer 15

No one, except Shakespeare, knows what it really means

Question 16

Hamlet’s verbal exchange with Ophelia in scene 1 can best be describes as ____ .

Answer 16

sarcastic and venomous

Question 17

In “Get thee to a nunnery,” Hamlet means that Ophelia ____ .

Answer 17

should become a nun in order to control her lust

Question 18

The encounter with Hamlet leaves Ophelia feeling ____.

Answer 18

devastated

Question 19

Where will Hamlet’s ostensible diplomatic mission lead him?

Answer 19

England

Question 20

The ‘play-within-a-play begins with a “dumb show,” which is a(n) ____ .

Answer 20

pantomime

Question 21

When Hamlet asks Gertrude about the players’ performances, her response (re: the queen) was ____ .

Answer 21

The lady doth protest too much, me thinks

Question 22

The antagonist of the player’s play is ____ .

Answer 22

Lucianus

Question 23

At the conclusion of the player’s play, Hamlet ____ .

Answer 23

becomes a spolier and blurts out the conclusion

Question 24

Hamlet accuses Rosencrantz and Guildenstern of ____.

Answer 24

playing him as if he were a musical instrument

Question 25

In Gertrude's chambers, Polonius hides behind a(n) ____ .

Answer 25

arras

Question 26

Polonius is felled by ____ .

Answer 26

a fatal stabbing

Question 27

Hamlet does not kill Claudius when he has the chance to because he doesn't ____.

Answer 27

He does not want Claudius to go to Heaven

Question 28

Hamlet's treatment of his mother in her bedroom is all of the following except ____.

Answer 28

sublime

Question 29

What happens to Polonius' body?

Answer 29

Hamlet hides it

Question 30

To what creature does Hamlet liken Rosencrantz in Act 4, scene 3?

Answer 30

a sponge

Question 31

Hamlet is evasive with Claudius when answering about Polonius' body. Which of the following is not one of Hamlet's responses?

Answer 31

in the chapel

Question 32

Who inspires Hamlet to at last take action?

Answer 32

Young Fortinbras

Question 33

When Laertes returns, his emotional state is best described as ____ .

Answer 33

infuriated

Question 34

How does Hamlet get back to Denmark?

Answer 34

on a pirate ship

Question 35

What two conveyances do Claudius and Laertes purport to use against Hamlet?

Answer 35

- poisoned sword - poisoned wine

Question 36

Who informs Laertes of Ophelia's death?

Answer 36

Gertrude

Question 37

Who speaks the lines "Now cracks a noble heart. Good night, sweet prince, and may flights of angels sing the to thy rest"?

Answer 37

Horatio

Question 38

Throughout the play, Hamlet puns on step-mother and mother by calling Gertrude ____ .

Answer 38

good mother

Question 39

What is the ghost wearing when it appears to Hamlet in Gertrude's chambers?

Answer 39

nightgown

Question 40

What drama did Polonius once play a part in?

Answer 40

The Mousetrap

Question 41

Gert: Hamlet, thou hast thou father much offended. Ham: Mother, you have my father much offended. Gert: Come, come, you answer with an idle tongue. Ham: Go, go, you question with a wicked tongue. In Act 3, Hamlet is confronted by his mother following the play-in-the-play wherein sequences of single lines between the characters offer repetition and antithesis. This is called ____ .

Answer 41

stichomythia

Question 42

During the course of the five acts, how many characters die?

Answer 42

eight

Question 43

To whom did the skull belong that makes Hamlet pensive ?

Answer 43

Yorick

Question 44

In a conversation with Guildenstern and Rosencrantz, Hamlet compares Denmark to a(n) ____ .

Answer 44

prison

Question 45

By the end of the play, Gertrude admits that her remarrying was ____ .

Answer 45

o'er hasty

Question 46

At the play's end, who is the new king of Denmark?

Answer 46

Fortinbras

Question 47

What exactly is Hamlet's tragic flaw?

Answer 47

Hamlet's tragic flaw is his indecisiveness and inability to act.