Wee Small Quiz over Act Two of Hamlet
WEE SMALL QUIZ
OVER ACT TWO
HAMLET
l. Put in order of occurrence:
A.______Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
arrive at Elsinore.
B.______Polonius sends Reynaldo to
Paris to question Laertes’ university friends.
C.______Voltemand returns from Norway with the news that they have stopped Fortinbras’ planned invasion of Denmark.
D.______Polonius tells Claudius and Gertrude that he is convinced that Hamlet’s madness is due to Ophelia’s rejection of him.
E.______Hamlet realizes his good friends Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are being used as spies by Claudius.
F______Ophelia, quite upset, goes to her father, Polonius, and tells him of Hamlet’s bizarre behavior in her bedroom.
G.______The Players arrive as entertainment.
H.______Hamlet asks the Player King if he could learn by tonight a few lines written by Hamlet and inserted into the play.
I._____Polonius accosts Hamlet while he is reading a book. Hamlet “feigns” madness and warns Polonius not to let Ophelia ”...walk in the sun (for) Conception is a blessing, but as your daughter may conceive, friend, look’t it.”
J._____Polonius suggests to Claudius that they hide behind drapes to observe Hamlet’s response to Ophelia.
1.________
2.________
3.________
4.________
5.________
6.________
7. ________
8.________
9.________
10._______
ll. IDENTIFY THE SPEAKER AND TRANSLATE INTO MODERN ENGLISH:
Oh, what a rogue and peasant slave am I!
Is it not monstrous that this player here,
But in a fiction, in a dream of passion,
Could force his soul so to his own conceit
That from her working all his visage wanned,
Tears in his eyes, distraction in his aspect,
A broken voice, and his whole function suiting
With forms to his conceit - and all for nothing!
For Hecuba!
What’s Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba?
That he should weep for her? What would he do
Had he the motive and the cue of passion
That I have?
A. The speaker is ___________________.
B. He is saying this because: ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________.
The translation into modern English is:
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111. CHOOSE THE BEST ANSWERS:
1. Let her not walk i’ th’ sun. Conception is a blessing, but as your daughter
may conceive, friend, look to ‘t.
This is an example of:
A. Pun
B. Verbal Irony
C. Personification
2. O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite
space, were it not that I have bad dreams.
This is an example of:
A. Simile
B. Metaphor
C, Hyperbole
3. Then are our beggars bodies, and our monarchs and outstretched heroes
the beggars’ shadows.
This is an example of:
A. Paradox
B. Syllogism
C. Allusion
iv. Who says the following speech?
___________________________
Why does he say this?
__________________________
.....I have of late, but wherefore I know not, lost all my mirth, foregone all
custom of exercises, and indeed, it goes so heavily with my disposition
that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this
most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o’erhanging firmament,
this majestical roof, fretted with golden fire - why, it appeareth nothing to
me but a foul and pestilent congregation of vapors. What a piece of work is
a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving
how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension
how like a god: the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals - and yet,
to me, what is this quintessence of dust? ....
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Translate into modern English:
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____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
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v. Give three examples of spying in ACT ll. Who is spying on whom and for
what purpose:
____________________________________________________________
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vl. Translate Voltemand’s speech to King Claudius: (page 87, lines 64 to 85.)
COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS:
1. What is in the letter Claudius sends to Old Norway by Voltemand?
a. He is warning Old Norway about Prince Hamlet’s insanity.
b. He is warning Old Norway about his nephew’s intentions of invading Denmark.
c. He is sending a declaration of war to Old Norway.
2. What does Fortinbras agree to do?
a. To challenge Hamlet to a duel.
b. To go back to the university in Paris.
c. To refrain from invading Denmark.
3. How does the overjoyed Old Norway reward Fortinbras?
a. Gives him money to start up his own army.
b. Gives him permission to invade Poland.
c. Gives him permission to go back to the university in Paris.
d. Gives him his own lands in Norway.
e. A & B only
f. C & D only
4. Old Norway asks Claudius to:
a. Give Fortinbras permission to cross Denmark on his way to invade
Poland.
b. Give Fortinbras permission to cross Denmark on his way to Paris.
c. To allow Fortinbras to visit the court.
OVER ACT TWO
HAMLET
l. Put in order of occurrence:
A.______Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
arrive at Elsinore.
B.______Polonius sends Reynaldo to
Paris to question Laertes’ university friends.
C.______Voltemand returns from Norway with the news that they have stopped Fortinbras’ planned invasion of Denmark.
D.______Polonius tells Claudius and Gertrude that he is convinced that Hamlet’s madness is due to Ophelia’s rejection of him.
E.______Hamlet realizes his good friends Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are being used as spies by Claudius.
F______Ophelia, quite upset, goes to her father, Polonius, and tells him of Hamlet’s bizarre behavior in her bedroom.
G.______The Players arrive as entertainment.
H.______Hamlet asks the Player King if he could learn by tonight a few lines written by Hamlet and inserted into the play.
I._____Polonius accosts Hamlet while he is reading a book. Hamlet “feigns” madness and warns Polonius not to let Ophelia ”...walk in the sun (for) Conception is a blessing, but as your daughter may conceive, friend, look’t it.”
J._____Polonius suggests to Claudius that they hide behind drapes to observe Hamlet’s response to Ophelia.
1.________
2.________
3.________
4.________
5.________
6.________
7. ________
8.________
9.________
10._______
ll. IDENTIFY THE SPEAKER AND TRANSLATE INTO MODERN ENGLISH:
Oh, what a rogue and peasant slave am I!
Is it not monstrous that this player here,
But in a fiction, in a dream of passion,
Could force his soul so to his own conceit
That from her working all his visage wanned,
Tears in his eyes, distraction in his aspect,
A broken voice, and his whole function suiting
With forms to his conceit - and all for nothing!
For Hecuba!
What’s Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba?
That he should weep for her? What would he do
Had he the motive and the cue of passion
That I have?
A. The speaker is ___________________.
B. He is saying this because: ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________.
The translation into modern English is:
___________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________
111. CHOOSE THE BEST ANSWERS:
1. Let her not walk i’ th’ sun. Conception is a blessing, but as your daughter
may conceive, friend, look to ‘t.
This is an example of:
A. Pun
B. Verbal Irony
C. Personification
2. O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite
space, were it not that I have bad dreams.
This is an example of:
A. Simile
B. Metaphor
C, Hyperbole
3. Then are our beggars bodies, and our monarchs and outstretched heroes
the beggars’ shadows.
This is an example of:
A. Paradox
B. Syllogism
C. Allusion
iv. Who says the following speech?
___________________________
Why does he say this?
__________________________
.....I have of late, but wherefore I know not, lost all my mirth, foregone all
custom of exercises, and indeed, it goes so heavily with my disposition
that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this
most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o’erhanging firmament,
this majestical roof, fretted with golden fire - why, it appeareth nothing to
me but a foul and pestilent congregation of vapors. What a piece of work is
a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving
how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension
how like a god: the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals - and yet,
to me, what is this quintessence of dust? ....
(Continue on the next page)
Translate into modern English:
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
v. Give three examples of spying in ACT ll. Who is spying on whom and for
what purpose:
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
vl. Translate Voltemand’s speech to King Claudius: (page 87, lines 64 to 85.)
COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS:
1. What is in the letter Claudius sends to Old Norway by Voltemand?
a. He is warning Old Norway about Prince Hamlet’s insanity.
b. He is warning Old Norway about his nephew’s intentions of invading Denmark.
c. He is sending a declaration of war to Old Norway.
2. What does Fortinbras agree to do?
a. To challenge Hamlet to a duel.
b. To go back to the university in Paris.
c. To refrain from invading Denmark.
3. How does the overjoyed Old Norway reward Fortinbras?
a. Gives him money to start up his own army.
b. Gives him permission to invade Poland.
c. Gives him permission to go back to the university in Paris.
d. Gives him his own lands in Norway.
e. A & B only
f. C & D only
4. Old Norway asks Claudius to:
a. Give Fortinbras permission to cross Denmark on his way to invade
Poland.
b. Give Fortinbras permission to cross Denmark on his way to Paris.
c. To allow Fortinbras to visit the court.
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