ENG 4A1/4G1 - HAMLET TEST

GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS:
1.Read all questions before beginning to answer any of them.
2.Do not write on the questions sheet.
3.Refrain from making loud noises during the test.

1. Have you ever noticed how, in Shakespeare's plays, when people say they have seen a ghost, they usually did? Were people more reliable in those days? Were ghosts?

2. How long can you discuss Rosencrantz without mentioning Guildenstern, and vise versa?

3. What did Queen Gertrude see in King Claudius?

4. Where did Polonius spend his time when he was not skulking behind the arras?

5. Consider the effect on Ophelia's future if she had known how to swim.

6. Which is the most horrible line in the play? Not counting; of course, "O, horrible! O, horrible! Most horrible!" (I,v,80)

7. Would it give you cosmic relief to hold in your hands the skull of an old friend? Protractors may NOT be used to answer this question.

8. "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark" Which do you think this statement refers to?
a)Polonius' timing
b)Gertrude's taste in wines
c)Hamlet's luck
d)Laerte's swordmanship

9. Consider the king's request, "Come Hamlet, come and take this hand from me," followed by the stage direction: "The king puts Laerte's hand into Hamlet's." (V, ii, 213) Isn't this a little gruesome? "Maybe" is not a reasonable answer but graph paper may be used.

10. Ultimately, did Polonius suffer from constipation or not? (A medical certificate is not required to answer but a note from home would help.)

This is the best thing I have ever read. supagal;

Rofl so win. v;

For some reason graph paper was what finally made me lul inside.

XB

Needs moar whining.

And more emo. ^_^

Who'd these fardels bear, to grunt and sweat under a weary life, but that dread of something after death, the undiscovered country from whose bourne no traveler returns, puzzles the will, and makes us rather bear those ills we have, than to fly to others we know not of? :saturos:

*had to memorize that whole soliloquy*

I always thought fardels was an interesting word. v;

How is graph paper helpful?

What light from yonder window breaks...
Wait that's not Hamlet

UBER-PHAIL

GOD'S BODYKINS MAN!

We liked that line too.