Seniors, Activity #48—Vocabulary Review for Brain Check #6
Answer each question with as much detail as possible. Use the vocabulary word in your answer.
1. Where would you be willing to gambol?
2. What traits would a person who is like a contagion have?
3. Which is more galling: standing in a long line or sitting in traffic? Explain why.
4. Which of your friends or family prates? Does it bother you?
5. What was the last thing you were chided for?
6. Why do you think incorporeal stimulus is hardest for drug addicts to deal with?
7. What was the last thing you exhorted your best friend to do?
8. Of all the characters’ conjectures concerning why Hamlet is acting so strangely, which one is
the closest to the real reason?
9. What emotions is the most palpable? Why do you think so?
10. Which class does there seem to be the most discord? Explain.
Act I
Scene i
4. Who specifically is attacking Denmark and why? (l. 75-76, 83-111)
5. What is the ghost wearing? What do they believe the ghost’s appearance to mean?
(l. 125-127, 134-142)
Scene ii
1. What announcement does Claudius make in lines 5-14?
4. How long has King Hamlet been dead? (l. 138)
5. What does Claudius say about Hamlet’s “prolonged mourning” for his father’s
death? (l.87-102)
6. In addition to what Claudius says about Hamlet’s “prolonged mourning”, what sort
of things does Claudius say to Hamlet that would probably make him angry? (l. 64,
106-117)
8. In the first few lines of Hamlet’s soliloquy Hamlet expresses his wish commit suicide.
Quote the lines that reflect those feelings. (l. 129-137)
9. How does Hamlet feel about his mother’s remarriage? Quote one line as proof (l.
129-159)
Scene iii
1. What problems does Laertes see in Ophelia’s relationship with Hamlet? (l. 5-8, 1421, 29-35)
3. What advice does Polonius give Ophelia about Hamlet? (l. 102-110, 116-124, 127128)
Scene iv
3. Why doesn’t Horatio want Hamlet to follow the ghost? (l. 77-86)
Scene v
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What does the ghost (King Hamlet) tell Hamlet concerning his death? (l. 45-48)
How was King Hamlet killed? (l. 68-75)
What does the ghost ask Hamlet to do? (l. 31)
Where is the ghost by day? By night? (l. 14-18) Why? (l. 81-87)
What do lines 49-54 imply about Claudius and Gertrude’s relationship? Why is it
considered incestuous (look at line 8 in scene 2)
6. How is Hamlet supposed to handle his mother? (l. 91-95) What kind of affect does
Gertrude have on the men in her life?
Act II
Scene i
3. What does Polonius think is responsible for Hamlet’s strange behavior? (l. 102-107)
Scene 2
1. Who are Rosencrantz and Guildenstern and why has Claudius summoned them to
Elsinore? (l. 1-18)
2. What news does Polonius bring Claudius and Gertrude? (l. 48-49)
3. How does Gertrude explain Hamlet’s strange behavior? (l. 56-57)
4. How are Claudius, Gertrude and Polonius going to test Polonius’ theory about what
is making Hamlet act strange (refer to scene i, question 3)? (l. 164-168)
5. What does Hamlet accuse Rosencrantz and Guildenstern of? (l. 276-286)
6. How does he explain his own behavior? (l. 298-316) How does Rosencrantz
respond? (l. 314 – 320)
7. Look at Hamlet’s last soliloquy: What has he done since speaking with the ghost?
Why? How does he feel about himself? What is his plan that involves the players?
(l. 556-614)