Hamlet Act One Test
WEE SMALL QUIZ
OVER
ACT ONE
HAMLET
l. PUT THE FOLLOWING SEQUENCE OF EVENTS IN THE CORRECT CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER THEY OCCUR:
A. Polonius gives advice to Laertes before he departs for
Paris.
B. Laertes advises Ophelia to
reject the advances of Hamlet.
C. Marcellus, Horatio and Barnardo stand guard at midnight where they spy the likeness of the dead King Hamlet stalking the castle grounds.
D. Claudius addresses the court
regarding the death of Hamlet,
his marriage to Gertrude, and the
situation with young Fortinbras.
E. Claudius sends a letter by
Voltemand to Old Norway warn-
ing him of young Fortinbras’
intentions of invading Denmark.
F. Horatio informs Hamlet that he
has seen the ghost of his father.
G. Hamlet warns his friends not
to reveal that he is feigning madness.
H. Claudius and Gertrude counsel Hamlet not to grieve too
much over his father.
I. Polonius advises Ophelia to
reject Hamlet’s advances for he is out of her orbit.
J. The ghost reveals to Hamlet that Claudius killed him.
K. Laertes asks Claudius permis-
sion to return to Paris to resume
his studies at the university.
1.________
2.________
3.________
4.________
5.________
6.________
7.________
8.________
9.________
10._______
11._______
ll. Choose the best answer:
1 According to the ghost how did Hamlet’s father die?
a. One of his soldiers struck him with a sword.
b. Queen Gertrude slit his throat.
c. Claudius poured a vial of poison in the ear of Hamlet’s father.
d. Horatio strangled King Hamlet to death.
2. “The natural gates and alleys of the body” is an example of:
a. Apostrophe
b. Personification
c. Metaphor
d. Synecdoche
3. “O, that this too too sullied flesh would melt
Thaw and resolve itself into a dew!”
The above quotation is an example of what literary device?
a. Simile
b. Personification
c. Imagery
d. Metonomy
4. “Nor customary suits of solemn black
Nor windy suspiration of forced breath,
No, nor the fruitful river in the eye,
Nor the dejected havior of the visage...”
What literary device is this an example of:
a. Parallelism
b. Metaphor
c. Simile
d. Synecdoche
5. Hamlet’s first speech includes all but the following:
a. His mother’s marriage to his uncle
b. Comparisons made between his father and his uncle
c. His father’s great love for his mother
d. The impending war with Norway
lll. IDENTIFY THE FOLLOWING CHARACTERS:
1. HAMLET THE KING
2. CLAUDIUS
3. GERTRUDE
4. POLONIUS
5. LAERTES
6. HORATIO
7. OPHELIA
8. HAMLET
9. MARCELLUS, BARNARDO and FRANCISCO
10. FORTINBRAS
11. OLD NORWAY
____A. The daughter of Polonius; the lover of Hamlet.
____B. Ophelia’s brother and the son of
Polonius.
____C. The widow of Hamlet, the mother of Prince Hamlet and the wife of
Claudius.
____D. The brother of King Hamlet who is now married to Hamlet’s widow and sits on the throne of Denmark.
____E. Prince Hamlet’s best friend.
____F. Councillor to the king and father of Ophelia and Laertes.
____G. Danish soldiers who first spy the ghost on their midnight watch.
____H. Son of Gertrude and King Hamlet.
____I. The slain king of Denmark.
____K. Norwegian Prince who is threatening to invade Denmark
____L. The enfeebled uncle of Fortinbras.
lV. Choose the best answer:
1. Why is Denmark preparing for war?
a. To prepare for possible invasion by Fortinbras.
b. To invade Poland and take away lands lost in the last war.
c. Claudius wants to expand his kingdom
2. How did Old Fortinbras lose his lands to King Hamlet?
a. He challenged King Hamlet to a battle and whoever lost would deed a portion of his lands to the victor.
b. King Hamlet invaded Norway, and after a long war, managed to defeat Old Fortinbras and claim part of Norway.
c. King Hamlet married Old Fortinbras’ daughter, Gertrude.
V. MORE LITERARY TERMS! FILL IN THE BLANKS:
1. “What might be toward that this sweaty haste
Doth make the night joint laborer with the day? “
What literary term is this an example of? _________________
2. “In the most high and palmy state of Rome,
A little ere the mightiest Julius fell,
The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead
Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets;”
What literary term is the above quotation an example of?___________
3. “But look, the morn in russet mantle clad
Walks o’er th dew of yon high eastward hill.”
The above quotation is an example of what literary device?_____________
4. “With an auspicious and a dropping eye,
With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage,
In equal scale weighing delight and dole....”
The above quotation is an example of what literary device?___________
5. “...No jocund health that Denmark drinks today....”
The above quotation is an example of_________________.
6. Beside being horrifically sexist, “Frailty, thy name is woman!” is an
example of what literary device?__________________.
7. In the following lines Polonius is interrogating Ophelia about her
relationship with Hamlet. What comparison is Polonius making?
“Do you believe his ‘tenders’ as you call them? / Think yourself a baby
/ That you have ta’en these tenders for true pay, /
Which are not sterling. Tenderyourself more dearly....
/ Or...you’ll tender me a fool. / Do not believe his vows,
For they are brokers, / Set your entreatments at a higher rate /
Than a command to parle. / ....Not of that dye which their investmets show, / But mere (implorators) of unholy suits....”
Polonius is making a comparison between Ophelia’s __________and
her ______________ .
a. beauty and her youth b. chastity and her value
c. love and her naivete
8. The above speech of Polonius is a(n) ____________ ____________
equating love and marriage with the hard currency of money and law.
a. extended metaphor b. homeric simile
c. paradoxical metaphors.
9. In few, Ophelia, / Do not believe his vows, for they are brokers,
Not of that dye which their investments show, / But mere (implorators)
of unholy suits, / Breathing like sanctified and pious (bawds) /
The better to beguile....”
In the above speech by Polonius to Ophelia, the underlined phrase is
an example of which literary trope(s)?
a. metaphor and paradox b. synecdoche and simile
c. simile, irony and oxymoron
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