Text of Book
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Questions
| 1) | What is this act mainly about? |
| 2) | Who tells Claudius about the death of Polonius? |
| 3) | Which animal does Hamlet compare Rosencrantz to? |
| 4) | Why does Claudius refrain from openly punishing Hamlet for murder? |
| 5) | What reason does Claudius give for exiling Hamlet to England? |
| 6) | Who does Fortinbras send a messenger to? |
| 7) | What does Hamlet name as an example, "gross as earth," that spurs him to action? |
| 8) | Whose claim to kingship does the cheering crowd support? |
| 9) | Among the flowers Ophelia names, which represents remembrance? |
| 10) | According to Hamlet's letter to Horatio, what did his ship encounter after only two days at sea? |
| 11) | How does Hamlet describe himself in his letter to Claudius? |
| 12) | How does Ophelia die? |
| 13) | What does Claudius mean in the quote below?
"It had been so with us, had we been there." |
| 14) | What does Hamlet mean in the quote below?
"A knavish speech sleeps in a foolish ear." |
| 15) | What does Hamlet mean in the quote below?
"How all occasions do inform against me |
| 16) | What does Gertrude mean in the quote below?
"So full of artless jealousy is guilt |
| 17) | What does Claudius mean in the quote below?
"But that I know love is begun by time, |
| 18) | Look where Claudius says of Hamlet's exile that "This sudden sending him away must seem / Deliberate pause." What does "deliberate" mean in this context? |
| 19) | Look where Hamlet observes that the Fortinbras's soldiers "fight for a plot / Whereon the numbers cannot try the cause."
What does "plot" mean in this context? |
| 20) | Look where Claudius worries about his scheme: "If this should fall, / And that our drift look through our bad performance. / 'Twere better not assay'd."
What does "drift" mean in this context? |
| 21) | Were there any events that weren't clear to you? |