Soliloquy
Characters
Acts I and II
Acts III and IV
Act V
100

What is the question?

What is, "To be, or not to be?"

100
Hamlet's Mother
Who is Gertrude?
100
The advice both Polonius and Laertes give to Ophelia
What is "Stay away from Hamlet"?
100
The method by which Hamlet will see if Claudius is guilty of his father's murder
What is a play?
100
The place where Hamlet and Laertes fight in this act without swords
What is Ophelia's grave?
200

...or to ____________ against a sea of troubles

What is take arms?

200
Hamlet's Father
Who is King Hamlet?
200
Polonius' theory about what is bothering Hamlet
What is Hamlet's love for Ophelia?
200
The person who Laertes thinks killed his father
Who is Claudius?
200
The reason the gravediggers said Ophelia shouldn’t be buried in a Christian cemetery
What is because she committed suicide?
300

For in that sleep of __________ what __________ may come?

What are death and dreams?

300
Hamlet's Uncle
Who is Claudius?
300
The place where Laertes asks Polonius and King Claudius permission to return to after the funeral and the wedding
What is France?
300
The reason Hamlet doesn’t kill Claudius when he has the chance at the end of Act III
What is because Claudius is praying, and Hamlet doesn't want him to go to heaven?
300
Gertrude's fate at the end of the play
What is she drinks the poison meant for Hamlet by accident?
400

When we have shuffled off this ____________

What is mortal coil?

400
Hamlet's girlfriend's father
Who is Polonius?
400
The names of the old friends who are spying on Hamlet
Who are Rosencrantz and Guildenstern?
400
The method by which Ophelia dies
What is drowning?
400
What Hamlet asks Horatio to do before he dies
What is tell his story to all of Denmark?
500

That makes __________ of so long life

What is calamity?

500
Hamlet's one true friend
Who is Horatio?
500
The name of the Norwegian prince who is rumored to be headed for Denmark at the end of Act II
Who is Fortinbras?
500
The plan Laertes and Claudius come up with to avenge Polonius' and Ophelia's death
What is for Laertes to engage in a fencing match with Hamlet, and to stab Hamlet with a poisoned sword?
500

The jester whose skull Hamlet and Horatio find in the cemetary

Who is Yorick?

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