Hamlet, Part 1: An Introduction to Elizabethan Theater

Question 1

Which are structural elements that are unique to dramas? Select three answers.actsscenessentencesstage directionsrising actions

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acts; scenes; stage directions

Question 2

actscharacterizationstructuresetting

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characterization

Question 3

What best describes characterization?

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the way a character is presented and developed

Question 4

Read the excerpt from Hamlet, Act I, Scene ii.Horatio: My lord, I came to see your father’s funeral.Hamlet: I pray thee, do not mock me, fellow-student; I think it was to see my mother’s wedding.Horatio: Indeed, my lord, it follow’d hard upon.Hamlet: Thrift, thrift, Horatio! the funeral bak’d meats Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.

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disgusted that Gertrude and Claudius married so quickly.

Question 5

Read the excerpt from Hamlet, Act I, Scene ii.[Hamlet:] Must I remember? why, she would hang on him, As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on; and yet, within a month, Let me not think on ’t: Frailty, thy name is woman!A little month; or ere those shoes were old With which she follow’d my poor father’s body, Like Niobe, all tears; why she, even she,— O God! a beast, that wants discourse of reason, Would have mourn’d longer,—married with mine uncle,My father’s brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules . . .

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fickle.

Question 6

Which excerpt from Hamlet, Act I, Scene i is a stage direction?

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Enter to him BERNARDO.

Question 7

four

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through the character’s own words; through what other characters say; through the actions the character takes; through the way others behave toward the character

Question 8

In Hamlet, Act I, Scene i, which character does Shakespeare use most to create suspense?

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Ghost

Question 9

Read the excerpt from Hamlet, Act I, Scene ii.Gertrude: Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted colour off, And let thine eye look like a friend on Denmark. Do not for ever with thy vailed lids Seek for thy noble father in the dust: Thou know’st ’tis common; all that live must die, Passing through nature to eternity.Hamlet: Ay, madam, it is common.Gertrude: If it be, Why seems it so particular with thee?

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Gertrude is critical of her son’s continued mourning and urges him to move on.

Question 10

Read the excerpt from Hamlet, Act I, Scene i.Horatio: That can I; At least, the whisper goes so. Our last king, Whose image even but now appear’d to us, Was, as you know, by Fortinbras of Norway, Thereto prick’d on by a most emulate pride,Dar’d to the combat; in which our valiant Hamlet— For so this side of our known world esteem’d him— Did slay this Fortinbras; who, by a seal’d compact, Well ratified by law and heraldry, Did forfeit with his life all those his landsWhich he stood seiz’d of, to

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to inform the audience of the events leading up to this point

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