Hamlet Acts

Which of the following best describes Laertes’ concerns with Ophelia as well as Hamlet’s concerns with his mother?

• being true to yourself

• maintaining your honor

• respecting family ties

• telling the truth

What is most closely the meaning of waxes as it is used in the passage below (1.3.13–17)?

Think it no more. For nature, crescent, does not grow alone In thews and bulk, but, as this temple waxes, The inward service of the mind and soul Grows wide withal.

• sticky yellow substance

• polishes

• speaks or writes about something in particular

• increases in size

What inferences about Laertes is best supported by his interaction with his father in Scene 3?

• Laertes is strong and decisive

• Laertes has little respect for his father

• Laertes meekly listens to his father

• Laertes worships his father

Which statement about the relationship between Ophelia and Hamlet is best supported by Scene 3?

• Ophelia wishes to become queen but Hamlet won’t allow it.

• Ophelia is receptive to Hamlet’s overtures, but her father warns against it.

• Ophelia doesn’t trust Hamlet from the beginning.

• Hamlet has rejected Ophelia before.

Which character gave this advice? “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”

• Ghost

• Polonius

• Laertes

• Ophelia

Which character gave this advice? “For Hamlet, and the trifling of his favor,Hold it a fashion and a toy in blood”

• Ghost

• Polonius

• Ophelia

• Laertes