in her meeting with cluadius, gertrude informs him of | Polonius’s death but otherwise tries to protect Hamlet |
Hamlet’s reference to Rosencrantz as a sponge is | an insult |
When the king asks Hamlet where Polonius’s body is hidden Hamlet says “In heaven, send thither to me…” main point of this remark… | Polonius may be in either heaven or hell |
Hamlet’s soliloquy (“how all occasion do inform against me”) is prompted by | his reflections on having killed Polonius |
this soliloquy resembles Hamlet’s | “o what a rogue and peasant slave am I” in motivation and content |
“Rightly to be great/ is not to stir without great argument/ but greatly to find quarrel in a straw/ when honor’s at stake” expresses | Hamlet’s belief that true greatness consists of defending honor, not in taking action without cause or motive |
Claudius says he does not fear harm from Laertes b/c “there’s divinity doth hedge a king/ that treason can but peep to what it would” which means | that it’s ironic in thathe had killed a king |
Laertes is _______ in act 4 | “passion’s slave” |
Laertes’s comment that “i’ll not be juggled with” is | a naive and inaccurate self-appraisal, as subsequent events with claudius prove |
Rue | a flower signifying sorrow; Oph gives rue to gertude saying you must waer your rue with a difference” appropriate b/c gert can remedy her sorrow but Oph can’t remedy hers |
Hamlet escapes from the ship bearing him to england by… | boarding a pirate ship during a battle at sea |
Claudius tells Laertes he didn’t punish Hamlet for killing Polonius b/c | he didn’t want to cause gertrude grief b/c common people love Hamlet |
Claudius proposes a fencing match, which is dishonorable b/c | Laertes’s sword is sharp but Hamlet’s will be blunted |
Laertes suggests the sword be… | dipped in poison |
Gertrude tells claud that ham is | completely mad |
Hamlet doesn’t agree to go to his mother as soon as | Rosencrantz and Guild ask him |
Fortinbras’s army is | on its way to Poland |
The land that Fort’s army goes to fight for is… | of crucial economic importance to both sides |
Hamlet is spurred to fulfill the ghost’s command after.. | he speaks with fortinbras’s captain |
Gert doesn’t wan to speak with ______ when she requests a meeting | Oph |
Ophelia’s madness is | not feigned |
CLaudius admits to gert that | it was a mistake to bury polonius quickly and secretly |
mob wishes to | make Laertes King |
Laertes blames the king for | the quick burial of his father |
Hamlet writes to Horatio from… | England |
Laertes agrees to… | a fencing match with Hamlet |
Queen never learns of | CLaudius’s plot to kill Hamlet |
news of Oph’s death | is told to Laertes b4 the fencing match |
Hamlet Act 4 Test
August 25, 2019