Characters
Plot Sequencing
Symbolism
Famous Quotes
Death
100
The Ghost.
Who is Late King Hamlet?
100
Ghost first appears in this Act.
What is Act 1?
100
Claudius' weapon of choice.
What is poison?
100
This person said as he was dying, "O I am slain!"
Who is Polonius?
100
Died from "drowning."
Who is Ophelia?
200
Has the last words in the play, Hamlet.
Who is Fortinbras?
200
Polonius sends Reynaldo to spy on Laertes in the beginning of this Act.
What is Act 2?
200
Harsh words serve this function.
What are daggers?
200
Shakespeare's most famous soliloquy begins with...
What is "to be or not to be?"
200
Died by drinking a poisoned glass of wine.
Who is Gertrude?
300
Hamlet's best friend.
Who is Horatio?
300
Gravedigger scene is deliberately placed in this order to provide audience members with....
What is comic relief?
300
The flower Ophelia cannot give out to the other characters.
What is a violet?
300
"Frailty, thy name is woman" is being addressed to this person.
Who is Gertrude?
300
Died from his own poisoned sword.
Who is Laertes?
400
First person to be killed in the play.
Who is Polonius?
400
Hamlet runs into Fortinbras' army as they prepare to invade this country.
What is Poland?
400
King Claudius and Late King Hamlet represent which two biblical figures, respectively.
Who are Cain and Abel?
400
"The lady doth protest too much, methinks" refers to this person.
Who is the "player Queen?"
400
The method by which Rosencrantz and Guildenstern's death order was delivered to England.
What is a letter written by Hamlet?
500
The Late King Hamlet's jester.
Who is Yorick?
500
Ophelia passes out flowers during this Act.
What is Act 4?
500
During Hamlet's "to be or not to be" soliloquy, Hamlet refers to death as this...
What is sleep?
500
"The rest is silence."
What is Hamlet's last words?
500
Number of deaths in the play (besides the Ghost).
What is seven? (Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, Ophelia, Claudius, Hamlet, Gertrude, and Laertes)
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