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ANYONE WHO HAS READ HAMLET!! HELP!!! PLEASE ASAP!!




1) Upon seeing the full title of the play (The Tragical History of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark) what can we infer about Hamlet?



A. He is a real, historical figure.



B. His father has been murdered.



C. He will die at the end of the play.



D. He will be the King of Denmark at the end of the play.




2) What was Shakespeare's motivation for writing Hamlet?



A.The plague had caused the closing of the theaters and he wanted to gain back lost money upon their reopening.



B. He thought that Hamlet's story needed to be told so that his good name could be cleared in history.



C. Queen Elizabeth was aging with no heirs and England was questioning who would succeed to the throne, and succession is the main idea in Hamlet.



D. Shakespeare's twins had just been born. Since he named the boy Hamnet, he wanted to pen a play in his son's honor.



3) Hamlet's hammartia or tragic flaw could include all of the following EXCEPT



A. an inability to make up his mind



B. uncertainty from not knowing the truth



C. a melancholy love sickness which leads to temporary insanity



D. having his reason submerged by excessive and powerful passions



4) What is a soliloquy?



A. Comparing things without using "like" or "as"



B. A series of related events that make up a story



C. The first half of a play



D. A speech was given by a character alone on the stage that reveals thoughts



5) Character foils are..?



A. characters who have opposite traits.



B. characters who are related through the family.



C. characters who kill one another.



D. characters who fall in love.



6) Which of the following is the BEST example of a thematic statement for the play Hamlet?



A. Hamlet may have begun pretending to be mad, but the lines between sanity and madness began to blur as the play developed.



B. Playing roles is confusing.



C. "Brevity is the soul of wit"



D. Unnatural deeds can be the source of all conflict.



7) Who is a character foil for Hamlet?



A. Polonius



B. Horatio



C. Laertes



Ophelia



8) How is Claudius related to Hamlet before marrying Gertrude?




A. He is Hamlet's legitimate father.



B. He is the brother of Hamlet's father, and therefore Hamlet's uncle.



C. He is a close family friend, and of no relation, though kindly called "uncle"



D. He is the brother of Gertrude, and therefore Hamlet's uncle.



9) In her encounters with her brother and her father, Ophelia comes across as




A. rebellious, headstrong, and stubborn



B. flighty, insincere, and silly



C. courageous, brave, and noble



D. sweet, innocent, and submissive



10) The ghost asks Hamlet to avenge his death by killing Gertrude and Claudius.


A. True

B. False


11) Hamlet pretends to be insane in order to...?



A. enlist Ophelia's sympathy



B. prompt Claudius to send him away



C. test his friends Rosencrantz and Guildenstern



D. conceal his attempts to get information regarding Claudius's guilt



12) What reason does Polonius give for Hamlet's madness?



A. He loves Ophelia.



B. He is upset about the marriage of Claudius and Gertrude.



C. He is distraught over his father's death.



D. He is a moody teenager.



13) Who does Claudius ask to keep an eye on Hamlet?



A. Ophelia



B. Horatio



C. Marcellus



D. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern



14) Why is Hamlet so upset with himself in the “O, what a rogue and peasant slave,” soliloquy in Act II, scene ii, lines 559-617?



A. He was never given the opportunity to achieve his dreams of becoming an actor.



B. He can’t put thoughts and words into action while a group of actors can.



C. The love between his father and mother is gone.



D. He is tormented by the question of whether or not to kill himself.



15) Claudius killed King Hamlet by pouring poison in his ear.


A. True

B. False


16) Hamlet does not kill Claudius while Claudius is praying because



A. Hamlet is afraid Claudius has a weapon



B. Hamlet changes his mind



C. Hamlet does not want Claudius to go to heaven



D. The ghost tells him not to do so



17) The characteristic of Polonius that most directly led to his death is



A. his nosiness and meddling



B. his poor judgement



C. his insincerity or shallowness



D. his cruelty to Ophelia



18) Gertrude is surprised to see the ghost when he appears in her chambers.


A. True

B. False


19: Laertes and Hamlet are alike in that



A. both are quick to act



B. both have feigned madness



C. both seek revenge for their father's deaths



D. both have escaped captivity to return to Denmark



20) Who tells Claudius and Laertes about the circumstances surrounding Ophelia's death?



A. Horatio



B. Queen Gertrude



C. Marcellus



D. a messenger


21) Hamlet knew Yorick personally.


A. True

B. False


22) How do Claudius and Laertes plan to kill Hamlet?




A. Laertes will stab him in a duel



B. Claudius will give him a drink with poison



C. Laertes will poison the tip of his sword and stab Hamlet



D. All of the above

Respuesta :


1. C, "He will die at the end of the play".

The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, regularly abbreviated to Hamlet, is a catastrophe composed by William Shakespeare at a questionable date in the vicinity of 1599 and 1602. Set in Denmark, the play performs the reprisal Prince Hamlet is called to wreak upon his uncle, Claudius, by the apparition of Hamlet's dad, King Hamlet.

2. A "The plague had caused the closing of the theaters and he wanted to gain back lost money upon their reopening".

Many have said to trust that Shakespeare replicated and appropriated another play, "Ur-Hamlet". It was accepted to be composed amid the Elizabethan days, however the original play is mysteriously absent. Shakespeare composed the play "Hamlet" in 1601, in 1556 Shakespeare's just child kicked the bucket of an obscure ailment. The passing of his child was accepted to be the reason of "Hamlet". 


3. A, "an inability to make up his mind".

4. "A speech was given by a character alone on the stage that reveals thoughts"

Hamlet is essentially thinking about suicide on and off all through his monologues. In this talk, he looks at death to a little rest, which he supposes wouldn't be so terrible. The main catch is that we may have dreams when dead—awful dreams. 

5. A, "characters who have opposite traits".

A foil is a character who sets off someone else by being a differentiation to that individual. For a character to be a foil to Hamlet, he or she should have things just the same as him all together for any distinctions to end up noticeably more self-evident.


6. "A, Hamlet may have begun pretending to be mad, but the lines between sanity and madness began to blur as the play developed".

7. "C, Laertes".

Laertes name is taken from the father of Odysseus in Homer's Odyssey. Laertes is the child of Polonius and the sibling of Ophelia. In the last scene, he executes Hamlet with a harmed sword to vindicate the passings of his dad and sister, for which he pointed the finger at Hamlet. While kicking the bucket of a similar harm, he embroils King Claudius.

8. "B, He is the brother of Hamlet's father, and therefore Hamlet's uncle".

9. "A. rebellious, headstrong, and stubborn".

Ophelia is a character in William Shakespeare's Hamlet. She is a youthful aristocrat of Denmark, the little girl of Polonius, sister of Laertes, and potential spouse of Prince Hamlet. She is one of just two female characters in the play. 

10. "A, True".

The Ghost of Hamlet's late father is alluded to as "Ghost." His name is likewise Hamlet, and he is alluded to as King Hamlet to recognize him from the Prince. The ghost assumes a key part in impacting the predetermination's of alternate characters.

 11. "D, conceal his attempts to get information regarding Claudius's guilt".

 12. "A, He loves Ophelia".

Polonius tells the lord and ruler, in an extremely circuitous manner, that he has found Hamlet's thwarted love of Ophelia, and that he trusts this lost love to be the underlying driver of Hamlet's frenzy. 

13. "D, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern".

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are characters in William Shakespeare's catastrophe Hamlet. They are youth companions of Hamlet, summoned by King Claudius to occupy the sovereign from his obvious frenzy and if conceivable to find out the reason for it. 

14. "B, that is, He can’t put thoughts and words into action while a group of actors can".

15. "A, True".

Hamlet is shocked at the disclosure that his dad has been killed, and the phantom reveals to him that as he dozed in his garden, a reprobate emptied harm into his ear—the very scalawag who now wears his crown, Claudius. 

16. "C, Hamlet does not want Claudius to go to heaven".

Although Hamlet at first trusts he has a perfect chance to execute Claudius, he sets up his sword when he understands that in the event that he slaughters Claudius while the lord is imploring, he will send Claudius to paradise on the grounds that the ruler will have admitted his transgressions. 

17. "A, his nosiness and meddling".


18. "B, False".

Gertrude is Hamlet's mom and Queen of Denmark. Her association with Hamlet is to some degree turbulent, since he detests her wedding her significant other's sibling Claudius after he killed the King (youthful Hamlet's dad, King Hamlet). 

19. "C, both seek revenge for their father's deaths".

After Hamlet killed Polonius, Laertes faces a similar issue that Hamlet does — a killed father. What's more, that is the place the likenesses end. While Hamlet lollygags and agonizes over the murder for a significant part of the play, Laertes makes prompt move. 

20. "B, Queen Gertrude".

21. "A, True".

22. "C, Laertes will poison the tip of his sword and stab Hamlet".

Laertes likewise proposes to harm his sword, so that even a scratch from it will slaughter Hamlet. The lord comes up with a reinforcement design too, suggesting that if Hamlet prevails in the duel, Claudius will offer him a harmed measure of wine to drink from in festivity.

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