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Interpret It!
Who Said it?
100
The name of Hamlet's father.
Who is Hamlet Sr.?
100
The country that the play is set in.
What is Denmark?
100
The identity of the ghost.
Who is the King (Hamlet Sr.)?
100

"Hyperion to a satyr"

What is Hamlet's comparison of his father to Hyperion (a sun god) and Claudius to a satyr (a lustful beast) using an allusion?

100


"O, that this too sullied flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew,..."

Who is Hamlet?

200
The daughter of Polonius.
Who is Ophelia?
200
The two countries that are at war with each other.
What is Norway and Denmark?
200
The method that was used to kill the king.
What is the pouring of poison in his ear?
200

"In the same figure like the King that's dead."

What is the description of the ghost which looks like King Hamlet?

200

"Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast, With witchcraft of his wit..."

Who is the Ghost (King Hamlet)?

300
The names of the two men who were with Hamlet when they saw the ghost.
Who are Horatio and Marcellus?
300
The time period that Hamlet was set in.
What is the Medieval Period?
300
The amount of times the ghost appears to Marcellus, and Bernardo
What is three?
300

"The memory be green..."

What is a reference to the length of time that the king has been dead? Meaning it didn't happen too long ago, only a matter of a couple of months.

300

"The memory be green, and that is us befitted To bear our hearts in grief..."

Who is Claudius?

400
This character tells Ophelia to break up with Hamlet
Who are Laertes OR Polonius
400
King Claudius does this late at night.
What is party and drink
400
The uncertainty regarding the ghost
What is it could be either a demon or Hamlet's father
400

"The funeral baked meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables."

What is a reference to the quickness of Claudius and Gertrude's marriage after King Hamlet's death?

400

"Unto young Hamlet: for, upon my life, This spirit, dumb to us, will speak to him."

Who is Horatio?

500
This character is sweet, innocent, and submissive
Who is Ophelia
500
A term for when two characters serve as opposites of each other in identical situations
What is foil
500
The ghost tells Hamlet to leave this person alone.
Who is Queen Gertrude
500

"Something is rotten in the state of Denmark"

What is like an apple that looks good on the outside but rotten on the inside, there is hidden corruption in Denmark?

500

"For Hamlet, and the trifling of his favor, Hold it a fashion and a toy in blood, A violet in the youth of primy nature, Forward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting."

Who is Laertes?

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