Hamlet, Part 7: Plot and Character

Question 1

Hamlet stages a performance about a murder to discern Claudius’s guilt. This is part of Hamlet’s

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r: rising action.

Question 2

Which words best describe Gertrude in Act IV of Hamlet?

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C: nervous, defensive

Question 3

Read the excerpt from Act IV of Hamlet.Gentleman: She speaks much of her father; says she hears There's tricks i' the world; and hems, and beats her heart; Spurns enviously at straws; speaks things in doubt, That carry but half sense: her speech is nothing . . .Horatio: 'Twere good she were spoken with, for she may strew Dangerous conjectures in ill-breeding minds.Gertrude: Let her come in. [Exit Gentleman.] To my sick soul, as sin's true nature is, Each toy seems prologue to some great amiss: S

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b: by suggesting that Ophelia’s madness is a sign of greater troubles

Question 4

Which word best describes Laertes in Act IV of Hamlet?

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B: passionate

Question 5

Read the excerpt from Act IV of Hamlet.Ophelia:Larded with 'sweet flower;Which bewept to the grave did goWith true-love showers.Claudius: How do you, pretty lady?Ophelia: Well, God 'ild you! They say the owl was a baker's daughter. Lord! we know what we are, but know not what we may be. God be at your table!

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C: She has lost her ability to think logically.

Question 6

Which words describe Ophelia in the excerpt? Select 3 options.

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A: muddled; C: illogical; E: melancholy

Question 7

best

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H: He becomes less concerned with correct behavior.

Question 8

In Act IV of Hamlet, why does Shakespeare include the plot event in which Horatio reads and reacts to Hamlet’s letter about an encounter with pirates?

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C: to establish Horatio’s steadfast loyalty to Hamlet

Question 9

Laertes returns to Denmark to confront Claudius about his father’s death. This is part of the plot’s

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r: rising action.

Question 10

In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, what plot events undermine Queen Gertrude’s confidence?

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H: Hamlet’s and Laertes’s accusations

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