6022059051 | The setting of the play | Elsinore, Denmark | 0 | |
6022059052 | What is the name of the past king of Denmark? | Hamlet | 1 | |
6022059053 | Where does the first scene of the play take place? | The castle walls at night | 2 | |
6022059054 | Who are Bernardo and Marcellus? | They are friends of Hamlet who guard the castle | 3 | |
6022059055 | Why was Fortinbras A threat to Denmark? | He wanted to take back the land that old King Hamlet had stolen from his father years ago | 4 | |
6022059056 | How does Hamlet share his displeasure for the quick wedding of his mother and uncle? | He says they used the leftover meat from the funeral for the wedding | 5 | |
6022118521 | What did Ophelia find strange about Hamlet's behavior and his physical appearance? | Hamlet's clothes are torn. His eyes are wide and wandering. He's pale and silent. | 6 | |
6022173517 | Who says there is a method to Hamlet's madness? | Polonius | 7 | |
6022217106 | What word do Rosencrantz and Guildenstern repeat multiple times in act two scene two? | Ambition | 8 | |
6022226032 | What is Hamlet mean when he says "I know a hawk from a hand saw"? | He saying that he's a little bit crazy but not totally | 9 | |
6022236325 | What does hamlet mean when he says " use every man after his desert and who should scape whipping?" | All men have sinned and if everyone got what they deserved, they all deserve pain | 10 | |
6022297212 | Who said "with devotions visage in pious action we do sugar over the devil himself?" | Polonius said this referring to the Kings guilty conscience | 11 | |
6024194179 | What are three common human problems Hamlet mentions in "To Be or Not To Be" | "The pangs of despised love", "the law's delay", "to grunt and sweat under a weary life," | 12 | |
6024194180 | What does "to make his quietus with bare bodkin mean? | To kill oneself with a dagger | 13 | |
6024194181 | What dream keeps hamlet from killing himself? | He fears what is after death | 14 | |
6024194182 | What did Hamlet mean when he said to Guildenstern "you would seem to know my stops" | Hamlet is saying not to try to play him. | 15 | |
6024194183 | What does Hamlet witness which caused him to say, "How to all occasions do inform against me?" | He sees Fortinbras in Denmark walking around the castle | 16 | |
6024194184 | Why does Hamlet say, "My lady should put on an inch of makeup"? What problem is this stalling? | He wants to bring his mother the skull and show her what she will become. He thinks she will try to use make-up to let herself live longer. The make-up will stall death and decay | 17 |
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