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WorksheetsHamlet Act 1 Review Quiz
Total questions: 13
Worksheet time: 11mins
When the audience knows more about what is happening than the characters on stage
Dramatic Irony
Situational Irony
Aside
Personification
Are you Lion Kinging with me? Match the following Lion King character to their Hamlet counterpart.
Hamlet
Claudius
Polonius
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern
Ghost Hamlet
(a) and the other guards notice (b) while on night watch. They first decide to ask (c) to speak to it because (d) .
Where does Hamlet take place?
Italy
Denmark
Norway
Sweeden
The guards notice a ghost.
Hamlet speaks to the ghost.
The ghost tells Hamlet about his death.
Hamlet decides to get revenge.
Hamlet begins acting "mad".
Who is potentially setting up an attack on Denmark (in Act 1)?
Sweeden
Old Norway
Young Fortinbras
Hamlet
What advice does Polonius NOT give his son, Laertes, before Laertes goes back to college?
Don't lend or borrow money.
To your own self be true.
Get in fights often.
Find good friends and hold on to them.
(a) gives advice to Ophelia about her relationship with Hamlet.
The story goes that (a) was killed by (b) . But really he was killed by (c) using (d) .
Why don't Hamlet's friends trust the ghost?
It might be a demon leading him to his death.
They do trust the ghost.
They do not believe in ghosts.
They already know how King Hamlet died.
Harbinger most closely means
reversal
perfection
debate
herald
Pith most closely means
essence
offense
factor
distress
Which character is described as a libertine?
Polonius
Hamlet
Gertrude
Laertes
