Revision #3 of Hamlet Act

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. 
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:


____The daughter of Polonius, the lover of Hamlet. 
a. Gertrude
____ Ophelia’s brother, the son of Polonius
b. Polonius
____The widow of Hamlet, the mother of Prince Hamlet and the wife of Claudius
c. Ophelia
____The brother of King Hamlet, who is now married to Hamlet’s widow and sits on the throne of Denmark
d. Horatio
____Prince Hamlet’s best friend. 
e. Fortinbras 
____Counselor to the king 
f. King Hamlet 
____Danish soldiers who first spy the ghost on their midnight watch. 
g. Laertes
____Son of Gertrude and King Hamlet 
h. Claudius
____The Slain King of Denmark 
i. Old Norway
____Norwegian Prince who is threatening to invade Denmark. 
J. Marcellus and Barnardo
____The enfeebled uncle of Fortinbras
k. Prince Hamlet 

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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