| Who is one of Hamlet’s school friends? | Horatio |
| Laertes asks permission to return to where? | France |
| Who is the Secretary of State of Denmark? | Polonius |
| “A little more than kin, and less than kind” | Hamlet is talking about his uncle |
| “…think yourself a baby, that you have taken these tenders for true pay, which are not sterling.” | Polonius compares Hamlet’s vows of love for Ophelia to worthless currency |
| “I could a tale unfold whose lightest word would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, make thy two eyes like stars start from their spheres…” | The ghost is telling Hamlet the things he has seen in the afterlife |
| Who says the following? “Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, show me the steep and thorny way to heave, while like a puff’d and reckless libertine, himself the primrose path of dalliance treads and wrecks not his own rede.” | Ophelia |
| “Something rotten in the state of Denmark.” | Marcellus |
| “Neither a borrower nor a lender be; for loan oft loses both itself and friend. And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all, to thine own self be true…” | Polonius |
| “But you must know, your father lost a father; That anther lost, lost his…” | Claudius |
| “Frailty thy name is woman!” | Hamlet |
| What other Shakespearean play is mentioned in Act I of Hamlet? | Julius Caesar |
| What does Polonius ask Reynaldo to do? | spy on Laertes |
| With the approval of his uncle, young Fortinbras has decided to invade what country? | Poland |
| Rosencrantz and Guildenstern have been summoned to the Danish court to do what? | Find the cause of Hamlet’s madness |
| “You cannot, sir, take from me anything that I will more willingly part withal; except my life, except my life, except my life.” | Hamlet voices his despair at life to Polonius |
| “…that great baby you see there is not yet out of his swaddling clouts.” | Hamlet referring to Polonius |
| “Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.” | Polonius said this as an aside while speaking with Hamlet |
| “What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculty!” | Hamlet |
| “More matter, with less art.” | Gertrude |
| “Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth…By indirections find directions out…” | Polonius |
| Hamlet asks the player to perform which play? | The Murder of Gonzago |
| Hamlet compares Polonius with what Bible character? | Jephthah |
| After the play, Claudius decides to send Hamlet where? | to England to collect an overdue tribut |
| Hamlet asks what friend to help him watch the king during the play? | Horatio |
| Why does Hamlet hesitate to kill Claudius when the king is kneeling? | Hamlet doesn’t want Claudius’ soul to go to heaven |
| “Rich gifts wax poor tax when givers prove unkind” | Ophelia speaking to Hamlet |
| “My words fly up, my thoughts remain below; Words without thoughts never go to heaven.” | Claudius admits he doesn’t want to repent |
| “How smart a lash that speech doth give my conscience!” | Claudius in an aside while Polonius speaks to Ophelia |
| “To be or not to be…that is the question…” | Hamlet |
| “The lady doth protest too much methinks.” | Gertrude |
| “…till I set up a glass where you may see the inmost part of you.” | Hamlet |
| Where would the mocking Hamlet have Claudius look for the body of Polonius? | hell |
| Who is ordered to follow Ophelia offstage after her mad scene with the King and Queen? | Horatio |
| “When sorrows come, they come not in single spies, but in battalions.” | Claudius to Gertrude, grieving over Ophelia’s madness |
| “…he being remiss, most generous and free from all contriving, will not peruse the fails, so that, with ease or with a little shuffling, you may choose a sword unabated and in a pass of practice requite him for your father.” | Claudius suggesting that Laertes use a sharp sword to avenge his father’s death |
| Claudius tells Laertes he didn’t strike back to Hamlet for his treachery for two reasons, what were they? | His devotion for Gertrude and His fear of Hamlet’s popularity with the common people. |
| Ophelia imagines herself distributing herbs and flowers after her fathers death. Which flower symbolized deceitfulness and false hood? | daisy |
| At the graveside of his sister, who is Laertes disgusted with? | the priest |
| Who dies as a result of drinking from Hamlet’s cup? | Gertrude |
| “Forty thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of love, make up my sum.” | Hamlet |
| “Let Hercules himself do what he may, the cat will mew and dog will have his day.” | Hamlet |
| “The king, the king’s to blame.” | Laertes |
| “There’s a divinity that shapes our ends, rough hew them how we will.” | Hamlet |
| “Now cracks a nobel heart. Good night, sweet prince, and flight of angels sing thee to thy rest.” | Horatio |
| While philosophizing about the shortness of life, who does Hamlet hold up the skull of? | Yorick |
| According to the clowns, who builds the strongest? | gallows makers |
| According to the first down, where are all men “mad”? | England |
| At the end of the play, who will be the new king of Denmark? | Fortinbras |
Hamlet Test REVIEW
July 26, 2019