Hamlet is the prince of what country? | Denmark |
Who is the ghost seen during the midnight watch? | King Hamlet |
What country wants to attack Denmark? | Norway |
Who is the leader of Norway’s army? | Fortinbras |
The people believe that King Hamlet’s death was caused by? | Poisonous snake bite |
What does the ghost tell Hamlet to do? | Get revenge. Kill Claudius |
What does Polonius forbid Ophelia to do? | To see or talk to Hamlet |
What does Polonius believe is the cause of Hamlet’s “mad” behavior? | Lovesick for Ophelia |
Why are Rosencrantz and Guildenstern really visiting Denmark? | The king Claudius has sent for them |
In Hamlet’s to be or not to be speech, what is he contemplating | To live or die |
What does Hamlet call the adaptation he wrote for the play? | The mousetrap |
How does King Claudius react to Hamlet’s play? | He walks out |
Why doesn’t Hamlet want to kill Claudius when he is praying ? | He might go to heaven |
What favor does king Claudius ask the king of England to do? | Execute hamlet |
Why won’t Claudius murder hamlet in Denmark ? | The people like Hamlet and it would make Claudius look bad |
Why does Ophelia loose her mind ? | Hamlet killed Polonius then left Denmark |
Which two characters join forces to plan Hamlet’s death? | King Claudius and Laertes |
How did Ophelia die? | Drowned |
What did Hamlet do to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern? | Having them executed in England |
How many people die in the play ? | 8 |
How does Hamlet die ? | Sword dipped in poison |
How did queen Gertrude die ? | Drinking poisoned wine |
How did King Claudius die ? | Forced to drink poisoned wine |
How did Laertes die? | Sword dipped in poison |
Who does Hamlet want to be King? | Fortinbras |
“To thine own self be true? | Polonius |
“Frailty, your name is woman” | Hamlet |
“Through this be madness there is method in it” | Polonius |
“Brevity is the soul of wit” | Polonius |
“The play’s the thing in which I’ll catch the conscience of the king” | Hamlet |
“To be or not to be: that is the question” | Hamlet |
“Get thee to a nunnery” | Hamlet |
“My words fly up, but my thoughts remain below” | Claudius |
“My thoughts be bloody or have no worth” | Hamlet |
“Where the guilt lies, let the great axe fall.” | Claudius |
“Goodnight sweet prince” | Horatio |
Current King of Denmark | Claudius |
“For a loan often loses both the money and the friend and borrowing dulls the edge of thriftiness” | Polonius |
The sister of Laertes | Ophelia |
A very close friend of Hamlet | Horatio |
“Perhaps he loves you now, but remember who he is” | Laertes |
Prince of Denmark | Hamlet |
She married her brother in law | Gertrude |
“My lord, he has courted me honorably” | Ophelia |
King of Norway, slain by King hamlet | Fortinbras |
King’s messenger who just returned from Norway with news | Voltimand |
“Am I a coward for not taking action…” | Claudius |
Sends his own messenger to France to spy on Laertes | Polonius |
“He started looking at my face so closely as if he wanted to draw it.” | Ophelia |
Will decide about whether to allow Norway army to pass through | Claudius |
Will supposedly lead an army against Poland | Fortinbras |
“My lord, We were sent for” | Guildenstern |
Hamlet’s aunt-mother | Gertrude |
“What a piece of work is a man” | Gertrude |
Hamlet asks if he sells fish | Polonius |
” the lady does protest too much, I think” | Gertrude |
Was hiding behind a tapestry and killed by hamlet | Polonius |
Is the only other person who knows of Hamlet’s plan | Horatio |
“What if this cursed hand was thicker than itself with brothers blood” | Claudius |
“Oh hamlet speak no more; you have turned my eyes into my very soul” | Gertrude |
” for the noble mind, rich gifts become poor/ when the giver proves unkind” | Ophelia |
” it shall be so/madness in great ones must not unwatched go” | Claudius |
” I must start my mad act again” | Hamlet |
One of two people Hamlet compares to snakes | Rosencrantz |
Hamlet
August 20, 2019