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Many scholars believe an earlier version of Hamlet existed prior to the Shakespearean version that we know. |
True
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Saxo Grammaticus is the name of one of the guards in the first scene of the play. |
False
Bernardo/Francisco |
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What is our BEST source for the text of Shakespeare's plays?
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the Folio
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Shakespeare’s own theatre that he built with Richard Burbage probably opened around _________.
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1599
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Shakespeare died in ______.
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1616
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Shakespeare’s friends published his collected works in ______.
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1623
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The name of Shakespeare’s theatre is _________.
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the Globe
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Which is bigger, a Quarto or a Folio?
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a Folio
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Hamlet was most likely written in the _______ of his career.
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middle
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The most likely date of Hamlet’s first production is ______.
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1600
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Hamlet is Shakespeare’s longest play. |
True
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There are at least five different versions of the text of Hamlet that we know of. |
True
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The earliest written version of the Hamlet STORY of which we are aware includes a character named ________.
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Amleth
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The writing of plays that includes references to plays in the script itself is now called ________.
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Metadrama
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The putting together of multiple versions of a text, making one big version is called _______.
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Conflation
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The earliest version of the Hamlet STORY, found in the Gesta Danorum, was written by a medieval writer named _______.
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Saxo Grammaticus
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Shakespeare's theatre was located in _________.
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London
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Shakespeare was born in _______.
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Stratford
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The best candidate for the first play to be performed at Shakespeare's new theatre is _____.
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As You Like It
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At the opening of the film, Hamlet is dressed in ________.
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Black
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"A little more than kin and less than kind" means ____________, _____________, and _____________.
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More related than normal
Not the same as me He's a jerk |
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Scene 3.1 begins with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern reporting to the king what they have discovered about Hamlet. |
True
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When Hamlet says his famous speech, he is being watched from hiding by _________ and __________.
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Polonius
Claudius |
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"The undiscover'd coutry from whose bourn No traveler returns” refers to ________.
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Death
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In Scene 3.1, Hamlet stops talking to himself when he is joined by _______.
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Ophelia
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In Scene 3.1, Hamlet asks “Are you fair?” Fair most nearly means ________.
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Beautiful
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“Get thee to a monastery!” is in the text. |
False
Nunnery |
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In Scene 3.1, Hamlet asks Ophelia “Where’s your father?” |
True
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"Madness in great ones must not unwatch’d go.” is the last line of Scene 3.1 |
True
It is said by Claudius |
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Scene 3.1 ends with which two characters speaking?
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Claudius
Polonius |
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Hamlet is afraid to kill himself because of “what dreams may come.”
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True
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The line in Scene 2.2 “More matter with less art,” is said by ________.
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Gertrude
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“Thus conscience does make cowards of us all,” means that thinking, considering the consequences, makes us afraid to kill ourselves. |
True
It is said by Hamlet in 3.1 |
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A bodkin, in the line, “When he himself might his quietus make, With a bare bodkin,” means _________.
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a dagger
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What is “the rub” in Hamlet’s famous speech?
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to dream
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What is the “consummation devoutly to be wished"?
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Death
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“…if the assassination/Could trammel up the consequence, and catch/With his surcease success; that but this blow/Might be the be-all and the end-all here,/But here, upon this bank and shoal of time/We’d jump the life to come.” is in the text. |
False
It is in Macbeth |
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"Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue: but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as life the town-crier spoke my lines.” is in the text. |
True
It is said by Hamlet in Scene 3.2 |
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“New, lads! Our wars are done./The desperate tempest hath so bang’d the Turks,/That their designment halts: a noble ship of Venice/Hath seen a grievous wreck and sufferance/ On most part of their fleet,” is in the text. |
False
It is in Othello |
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"Do you think I meant country matters?” is said by Hamlet to Ophelia during the play-within-the-play. He is most likely referring to _______.
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Sex
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(Character 1) “Tis brief, my lord.”
(Character 2) “As woman’s love.” Is in the text. Who are the two characters speaking? |
Ophelia
Hamlet |
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The famous line “The lady protests too much, methinks,” is said by _______.
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Gertrude
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In a smart-ass answer to Claudius, Hamlet says the name of the play-within-the-play is _________.
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The Mouse-Trap
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The line “… I’ll take the ghost’s word for a thousand pound,” though it sounds like it is from a British version of Jeopardy, is actually in the text. |
True
It is said by Hamlet |
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The play-within-the-play stops before it is finished because HORATIO stops it because Hamlet is upset. |
False
It is not stopped by Horatio. It is stopped because Claudius is upset. |
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Hamlet says Rosencrantz and Guildenstern try to play on him as they you play on a _________.
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Pipe or Recorder
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"My words fly up, my thoughts remain below/ Words without thoughts never to heaven go.” are the last lines of Scene 3.3 and they are spoken by _________.
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Claudius
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In Scene 3.3, Claudius admits to ___________, while seeming to pray.
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the murder of King Hamlet
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Claudius decides to send Hamlet to _________.
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England
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In Scene 3.4, Hamlet unintentionally kills __________ because he thought he was killing _________.
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Polonius
Claudius |
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In Scene 3.4 the majority of the time only two characters are talking. Who are they?
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Hamlet
Gertrude |
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Who is King Claudius instructing when he says “Go seek him out; speak fair, and bring the body into the chapel. I pray you, haste in this.”
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Rosencrantz
Guildenstern |
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"How now! A rat? Dead, for a ducat, dead!” Who is Hamlet talking about?
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Claudius
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"That from a shelf the precious diadem stole,/ And put it in his pocket!” is in the text. In relation to the sentence, what does the word diadem mean?
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Crown
In this sentence, Hamlet is talking about Claudius to Gertrude |
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T/F
"I’ll lug the guts into the neighbour room.” is in the text. |
False
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Who was the first to discover that Hamlet had killed Polonius?
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Gertrude
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When describing the madness of Hamlet, Gertrude describes him as being “Mad as the sea and wind…” |
True
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Whom does Hamlet call a sponge in Scene 4.2?
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Rosencrantz
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"Hide fox, and all after,” which Hamlet says to Rosencrantz at the end of 4.2 is most likely _______.
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the name of a children's game like hide and go seek
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"The vulture cares not which meat upon he feeds,/ the voice of death sings to him the same,” is in the text. |
False.
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Hamlet explains the way in which a king might go through the digestive tract of a beggar. |
True
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HAMLET “In heaven; send thither to see: if your messenger find him not there, seek him I’ the other place yourself.”
Hamlet says this to which character about the location of Polonius? |
Claudius
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To the attendants sent to fetch Polonius’s body, Hamlet says “He will stay till ye come.” This line is best described as ________.
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Morbidly funny
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Hamlet calls Claudius _________ in Scene 4.2.
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Mother
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"Exposing what is mortal and unsure/ To all that fortune, death and danger dare,/ Even for an egg-shell.” is said by _______.
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Hamlet
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We know Ophelia is mad because she ________.
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answers with bits of song
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"When sorrows come, they come not single spies but in battalions," is said by __________.
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Claudius
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4.5 marks the return to the scene of which character whom we see early in the play?
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Laertes
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In 4.6, we get reference to which type of people who have NOT appeared before in the text?
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Pirates
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Who says "Revenge should have no bounds," in scene 4.7?
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Claudius
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“I bought an unction of mountebank,/So mortal that, but dip a knife in it,/Where it draws blood to cataplasm so rare,/Collected from all simples that have virtue/Under the moon, can save the thing from death…” is said by _________ in the text.
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Laertes
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In 4.7, Laertes’s and Claudius’s plotting is interrupted by sad news that Ophelia has _______.
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Drowned
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"The fault, dear Claudius, is not in our stars,/But in ourselves, that we are underlings,” is in the text. |
False
This line is in Julius Caesar |
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“Why, I must die;/And if I do not by thy hand, thou art/No servant of thy master’s. Against self-slaughter/There is a prohibition so divine/That cravens my weak hand. Come, here’s my heart,” is in the text. |
False
This is from a different play of Shakespeare's |
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The line delivered by the first gravedigger “Is she to be buried in Christian burial that willfully seeks her own salvation?” refers to ________.
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Ophelia's apparent suicide
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“How can that be, unless she downed herself in her own defense?” is a joke about suicide in self-defense. |
True
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The point of the line “If this had not been a gentlewoman, she should have been buried out o’Christian burial.” Refers to ________.
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Social class
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The correct answer to the riddle in 5.1 is _______.
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Gravedigger
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"’Twill not be seen in him there; there the men are as mad as he,” refers to which country?
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England
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The name of the person who once inhabited the skull to which Hamlet speaks was _______.
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Yorik
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According to Hamlet, who might have become the stopper for a barrel?
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Alexander the Great
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In the line “sweets to the sweet: farewell!” the sweet is ________.
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Ophelia
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In Scene 5.2, Hamlet tells Horatio that the letter to the king of England instructs that __________.
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Hamlet's head should be struck off
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Hamlet rewrites/forges the letter to the king of England and slips it back to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern without their knowledge of the change. |
True
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Hamlet tells Horatio he is sorry for his anger toward Laertes. |
True
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Hamlet tells Horatio he is sorry for what he did to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.
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False
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One could best describe Osric as a _______.
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Sycophant (suck up)
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The word “imponed” appears in the text, and most nearly means __________.
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Bet or wagered
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The stakes for the contest are six French swords against ________.
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Six Barbary Horses
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“If it be now, ‘tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all…” is in the text, spoken by Hamlet. It refers to __________.
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Death
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Hamlet apologizes to _______ in Scene 5.2.
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Laertes
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Laertes apologizes to _______ in Scene 5.2.
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Hamlet
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"A hit, a very palpable hit,” is said by __________.
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Osric
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"I am more an antique Roman than a Dane,” which implies that the speaker will join others in death by a suicide, is spoken by __________.
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Horatio
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Hamlet's LAST words are __________.
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The rest is silence
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Who dies in 5.2?
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Hamlet
Gertrude Claudius Laertes |
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The last lines of the play are spoken by __________.
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Fortinbras
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The glorious line at Hamlet’s death “Good night sweet prince:/And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!” is spoken by ____________.
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Horatio
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Denmark will now be ruled by ___________.
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Fortinbras
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In the film, Hamlet’s first line “A little more than kin and less than kind,” is delivered as a _____________.
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voice over
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Keelan’s opinion about the effect of the ghost in the film is that it is ____________.
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genuinely creepy
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In the film, Branagh makes a clear choice for the audience about the nature and level of the relationship between Hamlet and Ophelia. |
True
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In the film, Branagh makes the clear choice that Gertrude was NOT having an affair with Claudius before Old Hamlet’s death. |
False
Branagh dances around the idea but never truly reveals whether or not they were having an affair |
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“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark,” a famous and still used line, is said by __________.
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Marcellus
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The _______ cracks open in the film.
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Earth
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The line “Thou art a scholar; speak to it, Horatio,” is spoken by ___________.
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Marcellus
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The line “Frailty, they name is woman!” is said by ___________.
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Hamlet
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"If it were done when ‘tis done, ‘twere well it were done quickly,” a line about killing the king, is said by _________.
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No one in this play.
This line is from Macbeth |
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“Meet” as it appears in what we have read, most nearly means __________.
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Appropriate
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“To thine ownself be true…” is said by _________.
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Polonius
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Old Hamlet was killed, according to his ghost by ___________.
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Claudius pouring poison inside Old Hamlet's ear as he slept
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How does the audience (who watch the play-within-the-play) react to Hamlet's play?
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They get more and more nervous
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The player-queen (Rosemary Harris) appears in what other movie?
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Spiderman
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Which two devices does Branagh use to build suspence in the play-within-a-play?
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Quick cutes with the camera
Horror movie music |
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Describe the volume of Branagh’s voice in THE speech.
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Soft and introspective
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Hamlet pulls out a dagger as he says which word(s)?
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Bodkin
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Music starts partway through the to-be speech. |
True
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How are Claudius and Polonius watching Hamlet?
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They are looking through a two-way mirror
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How does Branagh deal with the motivation for “Where’s your father?”
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Polonius or Claudius bumps the door and Hamlet hears
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Whose face gets pressed against the mirror?
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Ophelia
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Describe Branagh's Hamlet's treatment of Ophelia.
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Loving then violent
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"Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death/The memory be green, and that it us befitted/To bear our hearts in grief and our whole kingdom/To be contracted in one brow of woe," is said by _________.
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Claudius
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Hamlet says "A little more than kin, and less than kind..." in which act?
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Act 1
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When does Hamlet say "As I perchance hereafter shall think meet to put an antic disposition on..."?
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At the end of the ghost scene.
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When does Hamlet say "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy..."?
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At the end of the ghost scene
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What does Hamlet mean when he says "As I perchance hereafter shall think meet to put an antic disposition on..."?
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He says that he might think it appropriate to act crazy. The world ignores crazy people, mostly.
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What does the ghost of Hamlet's father when he says "Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast..."?
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He implies that Claudius and Gertrude had an affair before King Hamlet's death
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Who says "doom'd for a certain term to walk the night,/and for the day confined to fast in fires,/till the foul crimes done in my days of nature/are burnt and purged away..."?
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Old King Hamlet's ghost
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In Scene 2.4, Hamlet says "And to the manner born, it is a custom more honour'd in the breach than the observance." What is this about and what does this mean?
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Hamlet says that the marriage tradition where the king drinks would be a better tradition if it were ignored
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Who says "Thrift, thrift, Horatio! the funeral baked meats/did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables..."?
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Hamlet
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What does Hamlet mean when he says "I am too much i' the sun."?
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I am too much i' sun- I am too happy because my father is dead and I am alive
I am too much SON- I have an extra dad |
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Who says "Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit,/And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes,/I will be brief: your noble son is mad:/Mad call I it; for, to define true madness, What is't but to be nothing else but mad?" Why is this quote funny?
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Polonius
He is the least brief speaker in the play |
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Who says "Words, words, words."?
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Hamlet
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Who says "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't."?
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Polonius
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Who does Hamlet say the following quote to? "I am but mad north-north-west: when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw."
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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
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Who says "The best actors in the world, either for tragedy, comedy, history, pastoral, pastoral-comical, historical-pastoral, tragical-historical, tragical-comical-historical-pastoral, scene individable or poem unlimited..."?
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Polonius
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Who says "More relative than this: the play's the thing..."?
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Hamlet
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Who says "...that with devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself."?
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Polonius
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Who says "How smart a last that speech doth give my conscience! The harlot's cheek, beautied with plastering art, is not more ugly to the thing that helps it than is my deed to my most painted word: O heavy burthen!"?
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Claudius
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Who says "suit the action to the word, the word to the action..."?
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Hamlet
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Who says "let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp..."?
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Hamlet
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Kate Winslet as Ophelia mimics the act of sexual intercourse on the floor in front of Claudius. |
True
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T/F
Ophelia gets a shower with a fire hose. |
True
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Derek Jacobi's Claudius spends almost the entire film __________.
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drinking
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There is ONE skull in the graveyard scene, and that is Yorick's. |
False
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Ophelia's coffin is made of ____________.
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plain wood
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Billy Crystal's accent sounds most like __________.
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New York Jewish
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The character of Osric is played by __________.
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Robin Williams
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Which characters have facial hair, either beard or mustache?
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Laertes
Hamlet Claudius Osric Horatio Polonius First Gravedigger Second Gravedigger |
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It has long been debated HOW the first gravedigger knows that the skull is Yorick's. Branagh explains this by giving the skull a recognizable characteristic, and showing Yorick alive in a flashback. That characteristic is _________.
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protruding buck teeth
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Which actor plays the SECOND gravedigger?
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Simon Russell Beale
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The graveyard looks like it is in the same foggy forest as the original ghost scene. |
True
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Who says "Sweets to the sweet" while throwing flowers in Ophelia's grave?
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Gertrude
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Which actor plays his character as an obvious toady/sycophant?
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Robin Williams
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In which of the great speeches does Branagh let one moving tear roll down his cheek?
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Not a whit, we defy augury: there's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now...,
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Which of the great speeches does Branagh deliver in front of a mirror?
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To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer...
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Which of the great speeches does Branagh deliver on a snow-covered mountain top?
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How all occasions do inform against me, And spur my dull revenge! What is a man,
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Which famous actor in the film plays a famous actor in the film?
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Charlton Heston
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T/F
Nicholas Farrell, playing Horatio, delivers a lovely performance that almost no one notices because there are so many other more dramatic characters. |
True
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T/F
Laertes and Hamlet come out to the fencing match in identical robes. |
False
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When Horatio gets the letter from the sailors it is ___________.
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snowing
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Ken Branagh rarely passes up a chance to be dramatic. What happens to Claudius at the end of the play?
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pinned by a thrown sword
poisoned by Hamlet crushed by a chandelier |
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The "baseball line", "A hit! A very palpable hit!" is said by which ACTOR?
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Robin Williams
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T/F
The way Hamlet is carried out is reminiscent of a CRUCIFIXION. |
True
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Choose the three things from this list that are related.
-The first appearance of the ghost -Ophelia -The last visual image of the play -The statue of Old Hamlet -The letters from England -The outside of the palace walls |
The first appearance of the ghost
The last visual image of the play The statue of Old Hamlet |
