| Whom does Polonius send to France to spy on Laertes? | Reynaldo |
| Where does the ghost appear during the play? | castle ramparts and Gertrude’s closet |
| How did Claudius murder King Hamlet? | He put poison in the king’s ear. |
| Where is the university at which Hamlet and Horatio studied? | Wittenburg, Germany |
| Whose skull does Hamlet find in the churchyard? | Yorrick |
| Which characters cannot see the ghost? | everyone but Hamlet, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, Horatio |
| Who escorts Hamlet on the voyage to England? | Rosencrantz and Guildenstern |
| Where do Hamlet and Laertes fight during Ophelia’s funeral? | Ophelia’s grave |
| Which characters survive the play? | Fortinbras, Horatio, Osric |
| How does Ophelia die? | the branch she was hanging over the river on broke and she fell in the water and drowned |
| Whose story does Hamlet ask the players to tell upon their arrival to Elsinore? | the murder of Gonzago |
| Why, according to Polonius, has Hamlet gone mad? | He is going crazy without Ophelia |
| Who is the last character to die in the play? | Hamlet |
| How many characters die during the course of the play? | 8 |
| Who speaks the famous “To be, or not to be” soliloquy? | Hamlet |
| In what country do Rosencrantz and Guildenstern die? | England |
| Why does Hamlet decide not to kill Claudius after the traveling players’ play? | Claudius was praying, and Hamlet didn’t want to give him an opportunity to repent, unlike his father got. |
| Who killed Fortinbras’s father? | King Hamlet |
| Which of Claudius and Laertes’s traps for Hamlet succeeds in killing him? | Laertes’s poisoned sword |
| Who returns Hamlet to Denmark after his exile? | pirates |
| “Up sword and know thou a more horrid time,When he is drunk, asleep, or in a rage, Or in the incestuous pleasures of his bed.” | -speaker: Hamlet-audience: himself/audience-context: considering killing Claudius while he was praying-significance: Hamlet decides he wants to kill Claudius out of revenge |
| “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.” | -speaker: Marcellus-audience: Horatio-context: they just saw the ghost and are discussing why it was there-significance: there is much obvious corruption in the country |
| “Thus was I, sleeping, by a brother’s handOf life, of crown, of queen at once dispatched,Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin…With all my imperfections on my head.” | -speaker: ghost-audience: Hamlet-context: Hamlet goes to see the ghost to find out its reasons for being in Elsinore-significance: ghost tells the reasons for his death by his brother’s hand; stuck in purgatory |
| “This above all, to thine own self be true,And it must follow, as the night the day,Thou canst not then be false to any man.” | -speaker: Polonius-audience: Laertes and Ophelia-context: advice before Laertes departs for college in France-significance: most important advice he gives |
| “Too much water hast thou, poor Ophelia,And therefore I forbid my tears.” | -speaker: Laertes-audience: Claudius, Gertrude, Ophelia’s spirit-context: right after finding out about Ophelia’s death-significance: he won’t cry and add more sadness to a bad situation |
AP Lang.: Hamlet
September 4, 2019