HAMLET 2016 EXAM QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS GRADED A+

HAMLET 2016 EXAM QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS GRADED A+ What is the cause of Ophelia's death? - Answer-madness/ drowning Laertes plots the duel because of grief ambition or jealousy? - Answer-grief (over his father's death) How many months does the play cover? 2, 5 or 9? - Answer-five months Hamlet sees a ghost a second time when he is with ________________ - Answer-Gertrude. Claudius suggests a ______________match between Hamlet and Laertes. - Answer-fencing/ sword Claudius sends Hamlet to England to have him ___________ - Answer-killed T/ F The queen knows the wine is poisoned when she drinks it. - Answer-False T/F Fortinbras conquers some land in Germany. - Answer-False Who says this quote? "Good night, sweet prince, and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest." - Answer-Horatio (when Hamlet is dying) T/ F Hamlet and his mother forgive each other before they die. - Answer-True Why does Hamlet apologize to Laertes before the sword fight? - Answer-Hamlet knows what it is to lose a father/ feel badly. Why must Horatio remain alive at the end of the play? - Answer-To tell everyone what has happened. Hamlet fails in his mission to kill Claudius because he lacks power determination or help? - Answer-determination The queen died because she . . . - Answer-drinks poison Hamlet's true character is best understood by ____________ - Answer-Horatio T/F Hamlet is sure that Fortinbras will win the election as the next king. - Answer-True why do the guards think Horatio can speak to the ghost? - Answer-he speaks Latin Name all 8 of the people dead by the end of the play - Answer-1. Hamlet 2. Gertrude 3. Claudius 4. Polonius 5. Laertes 6. Ophelia 7. Rosencrantz 8. Guildenstern how does Ophelia die - Answer-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 how Polonius dies - Answer-Hamlet stabs him while spying significance- he thinks spying is always the answer but it leads to his demise. Hamlet forges a letter to England telling England to kill ______?? - Answer-Rosencrantz and Guildenstern "A little more than kin and less than kind" (act 1) - Answer-Hamlet to himself "O, that this too too solid flesh would melt" (act 1) - Answer-Hamlet to himself "Frailty, thy name is woman" (act 1) - Answer-Hamlet to Gertrude "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark" (act 1) - Answer-Marcellus to Horatio "The serpent that did sting thy father now wears his crown" (act 1) - Answer-Ghost to Hamlet "There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamed of in your philosophy" (act 1) - Answer-Hamlet to Horatio "and thus do we, by indirection find directions out" (act 2) - Answer-Polonius to Reynaldo "Through this madness, yet there's method in it" (act 2) - Answer-Polonius to himself "What a piece of work is man, how noble in reason how infinite in difficulty" (act 2) - Answer-Hamlet to Rosencrantz "O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I" (act 2) - Answer-Hamlet to himself "To be or not to be" - Answer-Hamlet to himself "The lady doth protest too much methinks" - Answer-Queen to Hamlet "Alas poor Yorick. I knew him, Horatio" - Answer-Hamlet to a skull "There's a divinity that shapes our end..rough hew them how we will" - Answer-Hamlet to Horatio "The readiness is all" - Answer-Hamlet to Horatio "If thou didst ever hold me in my heart Absent thee from felicity awhile And in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain... Report me and my cause aright to the unsatisfied" - Answer-Hamlet to Horatio "Now cracks a noble heart" - Answer-Horatio to himself What is an example of upsetting the "Great Chain of Being" - Answer-Claudius killing his brother The guards give 4 reasons that ghosts return - Answer-1. good deed 2. warning for the country 3. buried treasure 4. tell of their death What is the name of the castle - Answer-Elsinore What three things does the Ghost ask of Hamlet? - Answer-1. avenge his death 2. leave Gertrude to heaven 3. take care of yourself 4 plotting scenarios - Answer-1. Reynaldo spies on Laertes 2. Ros and Guild spy on Hamlet 3. King and Polonius spy on Hamlet and Ophelia 4. Hamlet makes the play sound like his father's death What instrument does Hamlet want Guildenstern to play - Answer-recorder What crisis point does the play reach quickly? - Answer-When Hamlet doesn't kill Claudius in the chapel What is the dramatic reverse in act 3 - Answer-Hamlet killing Polonius What 2 things does Hamlet ask of his mother - A't sleep with Claudius 2. don't tell anyone that Hamlet isn't crazy