Hamlet Test Overview

Page 1

Character matching:

1. (Fortinbras old is not on their)

2. Description and quotes (pick one that you should know for that person based on the context clues)

Page 2

True/False

1. Mostly for the plot

2. Example: Claudius devises a plan to use poison against hamlet (TRUE/FALSE) (that was Laertes' idea)

3. Example 2: Gertrude sees the ghost (TRUE/FALSE)

Page 3

Multiple Choice

1. Plot and Quotes (including theme questions, what does the quote mean, what happened, etc.)

2. Example: My lord I'll hit him now yet it is almost against my conscience:

1a. Wants to fight Hamlet

2a. Ready to have the duel right now

3a. Ready to use the shape sword with the poison on it but feels bad because Gertrude died

Page 4

Fill in the blanks/Fill in the answers

1. A lot of them are quotes

2. Example: What does Hamlet realize when he says that: There’s a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will—

1a. Answer: God shapes our lives regardless of how we think that it is suppose to go

Page 5

NEED TO KNOW:

1. characters drives conflict

2. conflict drives plot

3. plot/action changes character

(that process is where we find our themes

themes - a universal truth a story teaches

know how/when (in the plot) the conflicts hit resolutions

know the way the characters change and at when points we recognize their changes)

(THEMES:

1. Chivalry - Religion, Honor, Revenge

2. Moral Corruption, Decay, and Death

3. Appearance vs. Reality

4. Action vs. Inaction)