Hamlet

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Hamlet
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QuestionFor what reason is Horatio asked to
speak to the ghost?
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• Answer
• He is a scholar who speaks a dead language.

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Question Why are there guards 24/7, weapons
being made, and ships being built?
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Answer Fortinbras wants his land back and
revenge for his fathers death.
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QuestionWhat does the ghost ask of Hamlet?
Answer He would like Hamlet to swiftly seek
revenge for his murder.
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QuestionWhat do Laertes and Polonius warn
Ophelia of in Act I?
Answer Hamlets intentions are most likely not
honorable.
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Question William Shakespeare was born in this
year.
Answer 1564
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QuestionPoloniuss defining characteristics are
set in Act II. What is his favorite past time?
Give two examples from this act.

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• He loves to SPY
• Reynaldo to Paris
• Hamlet and Ophelia (plotted)

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QuestionHamlet is acting strangely towards
Ophelia. What has he done?
Answer Gone to her closet and given her such a
fright!
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Question What does the Queen believe to be the
reason for Hamlets odd behavior?

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• His fathers death
• Her hasty marriage

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QuestionPolonius has a letter from Hamlet to
Ophelia. Because of this letter he is attempting
to prove what?
Answer Hamlets cause of lunacy is due to love
for Ophelia
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Question William Shakespeare died in this year.
Answer 1616
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QuestionThe first death happens during this
act. Whose death is it?
Answer Polonius
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Question After Hamlet has his proof that
Claudius killed his father, why doesnt he kill
him when he has the chance in the Chapel?
Answer Hamlet believes that Claudius is
confessing and will therefore send his soul to
Heaven. Hamlet wants to kill the king while he is
committing a sin to send him straight to hell.
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Question What is the play Hamlet requests of the
players? What does he tell Claudius it is called?

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• The Murder of Gonzago
• The Mouse Trap

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Question What are the three reasons Hamlet is so
rude to Ophelia?

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• He knows he is being watched and is putting on a
  show
• He hates all women because of the lack of love
  his mother is showing for his dead father.
• He truly does love Ophelia and is simply trying
  to distance himself from her now to prevent
  future heartbreak.

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Question William Shakespeare acted for this play
company.
Answer The Kings Men Lord Chamberlins Men
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QuestionThe death from Act III is followed
quickly by another in IV. Who dies next?
Answer Ophelia
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QuestionHamlet is sent to England under what
pretenses? What is the actual reason he is going?

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• He is collecting money.
• He should be put to death when he steps on
  Englands soil.

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QuestionHow are Hamlet and Laertes dramatic
foils?Hamlet and Fortinbras?

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• Laertes storms the castle after his fathers
  death. Hamlet has yet to attempt to avenge his
  father.
• Fortinbras attacks Poland for a chunk of
  worthless land. Hamlet has failed to do anything
  ambitious.

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Question After finding out Hamlet is being
returned to Elsinore, what is the plan to end his
life?

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• A fencing duel which will have
• An unbated-poisoned sword
• A poisoned cup.

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Question Shakespeare wrote this many plays.
Answer 37
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QuestionWhy wont the priest give Ophelia all
her burial rights?
Answer She has taken her own life.
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• After Hamlet and Laertes fight in Ophelias
  grave. The queen makes an excuse for Hamlets
  behavior. What is it?

Answer His insanity
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AnswerHamlet has told him he has an odd feeling
about it. Hamlet dismisses Horatios concerns
with the fact that he will meet his destiny no
matter what or when it is.

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• Horatio encourages Hamlet not to fight in the
  duel for what reason?

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Question Trace the deaths through Act V. In what
order and how to the characters die?

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• Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are beheaded
• The queen drinks from the poisoned cup
• The king is poisoned by the sword and cup
• Laertes is poisoned by the sword
• Hamlet dies from the poisoned sword.

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Question Shakespeare was born here and this is
also where his family lived while he was in
London.
Answer Stratford-upon-Avon England
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QuestionHamlet was thought to be written in
this year
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Answer 1600