WorksheetsHamlet
Total questions: 19
Worksheet time: 12mins
Hamlet was a prince in...
Denmark
England
Italy
Scotland
Who's Hamlet's mother?
Gertrude
Ophelia
Who's the new king?
Claudius
Laertes
Horatio
The ghost asks Hamlet to....
punish the king.
fight Horatio.
break up with Ophelia.
When the king sees the play, he....
runs away.
drinks poison.
kills the queen.
Hamlet kills...
Polonius
The clown
Ophelia
Horatio
Who is the Price of Norway?
Hamlet
Fortinbras
Laertes
Claudius
Who is Hamlet's good friend?
Claudius
Horatio
Bernardo
Fortinbras
Who does the skull belong to ?
Ophelia
Poor Yorick, the court jester
Polonius
King Hamlet
He doesn't believe in shedding blood in church
He believes if he kills him while he is praying, Claudius will go to heaven
He's worried about his mother
Claudius sees him
How did Hamlet's father die?
tragic accident in the garden
a potent poison in his ear
Claudius stabbed him with a poisoned sword
a snake bit him
how is Polonius killed?
Hamlet thinks he might be the king hiding behind the curtain and stabs him.
Hamlet beats Polonius to death
Hamlet gives Polonius a poisoned drink
Hamlet doesn't like eavesdroppers, so he chokes him
who lives in the end?
Hamlet
Horatio
Gertrude
Claudius
what is hamlet's big problem
inaction
he wants to be king
his mom doesn't love him
his dad had cancer
PART A: Which of the following best states a theme of the soliloquy?
Suicide is not only tragic but morally wrong, and should be discouraged.
When life is full of pain and struggle, it is worthwhile to end one’s life rather than suffer.
It is better to take one’s own life rather than take another’s in the name of revenge.
Life is full of struggle, but the great unknown of death is far more fearsome.
PART B: Which of the following quotes best supports the answer to Part A?
“To die, to sleep — / No more — and by a sleep to say we end / The heartache, and the thousand natural shocks / That flesh is heir to. ‘Tis a consummation / Devoutly to be wished.” (Lines 5-9)
“For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, / Th’ oppressor’s wrong, the proud man’s contumely / The pangs of despised love, the law’s delay, / The insolence of office, and the spurns / That patient merit of th’ unworthy takes, / When he himself might his quietus make” (Lines 15-20)
“The undiscovered country, from whose bourn / No traveller returns, puzzles the will, / And makes us rather bear those ills we have / Than fly to others that we know not of?” (Lines 24-27)
“And thus the native hue of resolution / Is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought, / And enterprise of great pitch and moment / With this regard their currents turn awry / And lose the name of action.” (Lines 29-33)
PART A: How does Shakespeare use figurative language to talk about death?
Shakespeare compares life to a nightmare and death to peaceful sleep.
Shakespeare compares life to crossing into new countries and death to being in a fixed state.
Shakespeare compares life and death to battles in which one has the choice of fighting.
Shakespeare compares death to sleep and dreams to the afterlife.
PART B: Which TWO quotes from the text support the answer to Part A?
“‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer / The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune” (Lines 2-3)
“take arms against a sea of troubles / And by opposing end them.” (Lines 4-5)
“and by a sleep to say we end / The heartache, and the thousand natural shocks / That flesh is heir to.” (Lines 6-8)
“For in that sleep of death what dreams may come / When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, / Must give us pause.” (Lines 11-13)
What type of poem is "To be or Not to Be?"
soliloquy
Free Verse
Ballad
Sonnet
