| Hamlet’s to be or not to be soliloquy speculates about | the advantages and disadvantages of suicide |
| Hamlet says that people don’t take their own lives because… | people fear and don’t know what happens after death |
| _____ tells _____, “your honesty should admit no discourse to your beauty” because __________________ | Hamlet; Ophelia; beauty corrupts purity |
| _______ says, “the power of beauty will sooner transform honesty from what it is to a bawd than the force of honesty can translate beauty into his likeness: this was something a paradox, but now the time gives it proof.” “The time gives it proof” __________ | Hamlet; an allusion to Gertrude |
| After eavesdropping on the scene b/w Hamlet and Ophelia, Polonius still thinks… | Hamlet’s behavior results from unrequited love, but Claudius doesn’t |
| During the play within the play, Hamlet’s cruel remarks to Ophelia arise mainly from… | his bitterness over his mother’s faithlessness |
| Gertrude says that the Player Queen “doth protest too much” b/c | the player queen’s declarations that she will not remarry remind Gertrude that she has remarried quickly |
| When Claudius leaves the play, he believes… | Hamlet knows he murdered Hamlet’s father |
| Hamlet forces Guildenstern to… | try to play the recorder to make the point that if he can’t make a simple recorder speak, he certainly can’t make Hamlet speak |
| Hamlet’s reason for not killing CLaudius while Claudius is at prayer is b/c | he doesn’t want to send Claudius’s soul to heaven |
| The scene in which Hamlet passes up the opportunity to kill CLaudius is ironic b/c… | CLaudius is unable to repent |
| Hamlet’s remark to the dead Polonius “thou findst to be busy is some danger”… | is an example of an ironic understatement |
| Hamlet forces his mother to look into her soul and… | acknowledge her infidelity, bad judgement. and immoral behavior by comparing the portraits and characters of Claudius and Hamlet’s father |
| Hamlet asks Gertrude to keep his secret that… | He’s only pretending to be mad, to behave virtuously even if she lacks virtue, and to avoid Claudius’s bed |
| ______says “tis the sport to have the enginer / Hoist with his own petar” | Hamlet; the word enginer refers to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern |
| Hamlet tells ophelia to go to a | nunnery b/c he considers all women unworthy |
| When Hamlet asks Ophelia where her father is, it indicates that he knows… | Polonius is listening to them |
| Caludius decides to… | send Hamlet to England |
| Hamlet tells Horatio that | he compliments him honestly and has nothing to gain by flattering him |
| Hamlet admires Horatio in art because… | He’s not “passion’s slave” |
| Hamlet doesn’t ask Horatio to _____ during the play. He wants him to __________ | taunt and ridicule; observe him instead |
| Hamlet tells the king that the play is called | the mouse trap |
| the play within the play depicts | a nephew murdering his uncle |
| King’s reaction to the play within the play confirms… | the truth of what the ghost had told Hamlet |
| When Hamlet kills Polonius | he thinks it might be CLuadius hiding behind the arras |
| Does Hamlet physically assault his mother in the scene in her bedroom? | no |
| The ghost reappears to… | remind Hamlet to finish his mission |
| When the ghost appears in Gertrude’s room… | only Hamlet can see and hear it |
| Hamlet tells Gertrude that his cruelty to her | is for her own good |
| Hamlet says he won’t trust rosencrantz and guildenstern to | protect him on the trip to england |
Hamlet Act 3 test
August 26, 2019