Hamlet Test Questions and Answers

3 Steps Claudius has taken to gain the throne o :# 1. murdered King Hamlet 2. married Queen Gertrude 3. held a fake election-swung by Polonius` where did Hamlet go to college? o :# Wittenburg, Germany Name all 8 of the people dead by the end of the play o :# 1. Hamlet 2. Gertrude 3. Claudius 4. Polonius 5. Laertes 6. Ophelia 7. Rosencrantz 8. Guildenstern Drowns significance- she allows herself to be taken away by the current of the river, just like how she has lived-manipulated by Laertes and Polonius o :# how Ophelia dies Hamlet stabs him while spying significance- he thinks spying is always the answer but it leads to his demise. 2024/2025 2 | P a g e o :# how Polonius dies Hamlet forges a letter to England telling England to kill ______?? o :# Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Who are Hamlet's foils? o :# Fortinbras and Laertes Who Says this about whom.... "A little more than kin and less than kind" (act 1) o :# Hamlet to himself but talking about Claudius who says to whom... "Frailty, thy name is woman" (act 1) o :# Hamlet to Gertrude who says to whom... "To thine own self be true, neither borrower nor lender be" (act 1) o :# Polonius to Laertes who says to whom... "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark" (act 1) 2024/2025 3 | P a g e o :# Marcellus to Horatio ..... "The serpent that did sting thy father now wears his crown" (act 1) o :# Ghost to Hamlet ...... "There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamed of in your philosophy" (act 1) o :# Hamlet to Horatio ... "The play's the thing" (act 2) o :# Hamlet to himself ... "What a piece of work is man, how noble in reason how infinite in difficulty" (act 2) o :# Hamlet to Rosen