Hamlet Trivia IV

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HAMLET TRIVIA IV

31) What is the theme of the speech Hamlet asks the first player to recite?

THE DEATH OF HECTOR THE DEATH OF PRIAM THE DEATH OF ACHILLES THE DEATH OF AGAMEMNON

Priam was killed during the Sack of Troy by Achilles' son Neoptolemus (also known as Pyrrhus).

32) What role is Shakespeare believed to have played in the original production of Hamlet?

HAMLET THE GHOST CLAUDIUS OSRIC

Local tradition has it that Shakespeare played the Ghost of Hamlet's father.

33) What does Hamlet claim to know the difference between when the wind is southerly?

A MOUSE AND A MYSTIC A NYMPH AND A NIHILIST A HAWK AND A HANDSAW A RAT AND A RAINSTORM

HAMLET: I am but mad north-north-west: when the wind is
southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw.

34) Who says, "O, my offence is rank it smells to heaven"?

HAMLET CLAUDIUS GERTRUDE THE GHOST

After watching the play-within-a-play, Claudius is overcome with guilt.

35) In what country do Rosencrantz and Guildenstern die?

PARIS ENGLAND DENMARK NORWAY

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern accompany Hamlet to England with a sealed letter to the English king requesting that Hamlet be executed upon arrival. But Hamlet discovers the letter and replaces it with a forgery indicating that his former friends should be killed instead.

36) To whom does Hamlet say: "Come, come, and sit you down; you shall not budge; You go not till I set you up a glass where you may see the inmost part of you"?

GERTRUDE ROSENCRANTZ & GUILDENSTERN OPHELIA CLAUDIUS

Hamlet speaks this line to Gertrude, hoping to make her see how she has betrayed his father.

37) Which of the following characters cannot see the ghost?

HORATIO MARCELLUS HAMLET GERTRUDE

When the ghost appears in Gertrude's chamber, she cannot see it.

38) Where does Hamlet tell Ophelia to go?

A NUNNERY BED HELL ENGLAND

HAMLET: Get thee to a nunnery: why wouldst thou be a
breeder of sinners?

39) Why does the Norwegian army pass through Denmark?

TO WAGE WAR WITH POLAND TO WAGE WAR WITH ENGLAND TO WAGE WAR WITH GERMANY TO FRIGHTEN CLAUDIUS INTO RETURNING STOLEN LANDS

After the King of Norway rebukes Fortinbras, he resolves to march against Poland instead of Denmark, but the forces he has conscripted will pass through a portion of Denmark to get there.

40) What does the ghost tell Hamlet to do about his mother?

SHAME HER FOR REMARRYING WARN HER NOT TO SLEEP WITH CLAUDIUS LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN MURDER HER

GHOST: But, howsoever thou pursuest this act,
Taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive
Against thy mother aught: leave her to heaven
And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge,
To prick and sting her.