Hamlet Quiz #1

Match the following speech styles to the definition that fits.

• Character is on stage, they believe they are alone, and express their thoughts / feelings / ideas.

• Monologue

• Character is on stage, people are around them, and express their thoughts / feelings / ideas.

• Dialogue

• Two or more characters are speaking in some pattern or order.

• Soliloquy

What was a theme (based on the definition from the lecture)

• An overall message of the text that is subjective based on the reader's interpretation.

• An objective summary of the text that gives the facts.

Match the following character to their profile.

• Betrothed to the prince

• Claudius

• The best friend to the prince

• Gertrude

• Prince of Denmark

• Hamlet

• Queen of Denmark

• Ophelia

• Newly elected king of Denmark

• Horatio

Who was Denmark at war with?

• Elizabeth I of England

• Fortinbras of Norway

• Julius Caesar of Rome

• Erik of Iceland

Who was NOT one of the Elsinore Royal Guards that we met in Act I; sc 1?

• Fransico

• Bernardo

• Horatio

• Marcellus

How many nights had the Ghost of King Hamlet appeared to the guards before they brought in back-up?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

Where did Laertes ask to return now that the King has been coronated?

• France

• Norway

• England

• Spain