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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A: acts; B: scenes; D: stage directions

Question 2

Hamlet, Act I, Scene i contains suspense because it

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h: has plot twists and unresolved questions.

Question 3

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

Question 4

Shakespeare portrays Hamlet as a man who falls from a high status, which makes Hamlet an example of a(n):

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D: tragic hero

Question 5

actscharacterizationstructuresetting

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B: characterization

Question 6

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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d: disgusted that Gertrude and Claudius married so quickly.

Question 7

Read the excerpt from Hamlet, Act I, Scene i.Enter Ghost.Bernardo: In the same figure, like the king that’s dead.Marcellus: Thou art a scholar; speak to it, Horatio.Bernardo: Looks it not like the king? mark it, Horatio.Horatio: Most like: it harrows me with fear and wonder.Bernardo: It would be spoke to.Marcellus: Question it, Horatio.

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r: respected.

Question 8

In Hamlet, Act I, Scene ii, which dramatic convention does Shakespeare employ most?

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B: He introduces a major conflict.

Question 9

four

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t: through the character’s own words; t: through what other characters say; t: through the actions the character takes; t: through the way others behave toward the character

Question 10

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

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E: Enter to him BERNARDO.

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