Shakespeare - Exploring English (Unit 5 - Hamlet)

Question 1

What is Hamlet's former lover called?

Accepted Answer

Ophelia

Question 2

What do we call the regular verse structure, with 'five feet', that Shakespare often uses?

Accepted Answer

iambic pentameter

Question 3

Which of these Disney Films has a similar plot to Hamlet?

Accepted Answer

Lion King

Question 4

How does Hamlet intend to provoke a reaction from Claudius, and prove his guilt?

Accepted Answer

Performing a play

Question 5

Why doesn't Hamlet kill Claudius when he is praying?

Accepted Answer

Claudius will go to heaven

Question 6

Shakespeare was an actor and performed in his own plays?

Accepted Answer

True

Question 7

Who does the Ghost say murdered the old King Hamlet?

Accepted Answer

Claudius (his uncle)

Question 8

Which role did is it believed Shakespeare played in Hamlet?

Accepted Answer

Ghost of Hamlet's father

Question 9

Why is Hamlet shocked by his mother's marriage?

Accepted Answer

Claudius was her dead husband's brother, It happened so soon after the funeral

Question 10

During the famous 'to be or not to be' speech what is Hamlet considering?

Accepted Answer

Suicide

Question 11

Shakespeare was the first author to use the word 'shipwreck'?

Accepted Answer

True

Question 12

Who does Hamlet's mother marry after his father's death?

Accepted Answer

Claudius

Question 13

At the beginning of the play, where has Hamlet returned to Denmark from?

Accepted Answer

The University

Question 14

Hamlet is what genre of play?

Accepted Answer

Tragedy

Question 15

Why does Hamlet's father come back as a ghost?

Accepted Answer

He died a 'bad death'

Question 16

How does Hamlet's mother Gertrude die?

Accepted Answer

Poison

Question 17

How does Ophelia die?

Accepted Answer

Drowning

Question 18

Which of these phrases features in Hamlet?

Accepted Answer

To be, or not to be.

Question 19

Who kills Claudius in the end?

Accepted Answer

Hamlet

Question 20

"All that glitters is not gold." This could mean:

Accepted Answer

Something that looks good is not always precious, Something that doesn't look good might still be precious

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