Questions regarding the movie version of Hamlet to be answered while watching the film.

What is the setting?____________________________________________________

Whose funeral is it during the opening scene? ________________________________

Does the Queen marry soon after the funeral?________________________________

Who does the Queen marry? _____________________________________________

Name two ways in which the new king is related to Hamlet._____________________

How does Hamlet take the remarriage? _____________________________________

What does Laertes tell his sister? __________________________________________

Who says "To thine own self be true?" To whom does he say it?_________________________________________________________

Does Polonius give Ophelia the same advice as Laertes? ________________________

Who tells Hamlet about the ghost? ________________________________________

Who is the ghost?_________________________________________________

Where was Hamlet’s father murdered?_________________________________

How was Hamlet’s father murdered?________________________________________

Who murdered Hamlet’s father?___________________________________________

What does the ghost ask of Hamlet? _______________________________________

What does the ghost say to do to Hamlet’s mother? __________________________

Does Hamlet tell his friends about the ghost?_____________________________

Who meets Ophelia in the opening of act II and holds her briefly?_______________

What does Ploarius suggest as the cause of Hamlet’s madness? __________________

What does Gertrude think the cause of the madness is?_________________________

What does Hamlet reply when asked what he reads?__________________________

Does Hamlet profess his love for Ophelia during their meeting in the hall?_________

Does Hamlet know that he has been set up?_________________________________

Who says "murders must not unwatched go?"_______________________________

Who says "To be or not to be?" ____________________________________________

In act III what does Hamlet ask of his friends?________________________________

Who says "What a piece of work is man?" __________________________________

What is the group Hamlet welcomes to the kingdom?________________________

What idea does Hamlet get upon watching the troupers unpack?_________________

Why doesn’t Hamlet kill Claudious outright? Why does he form the plan?___________________________________________________________________

Where does Hamlet tell Ophelia to go?_______________________________________

What is the name of the play Hamlet has the troupers perform?_________________

How does the King react to the play?_______________________________________

How does Hamlet react?_________________________________________________

Does Hamlet tell Horateo why he is mad?___________________________________

Why doesn’t Hamlet kill Claudious when he is praying?________________________

Who hides behind the tapestry?____________________________________________

What happens to the man behind the tapestry?_______________________________

Who does Hamlet think is behind the tapestry?______________________________

What does the ghost say to Hamlet after Hamlet’s fight with his mother?________________________________________________________________

What does Hamlet mean when he says "I must be cruel to be kind?"

Does Claudious pursue Hamlet to the full extent of the law?_____________________

Where does Hamlet say the body is?_________________________________________

Where does Claudious want to send Hamlet?________________________________

What do the letters prepared by Claudious say?____________________________

What happens to Ophelia?______________________________________________

Who says "We know what we are but not who we may be?"____________________

Why are Hamlet’s friends put to death in England?________________________

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How does Ophelia die?____________________________________________________

Who does Hamlet first meet upon returning from England?_____________________

What does the gravedigger give to Hamlet?__________________________________

What does Laertus plan to do to his sword?__________________________________

Why do Hamlet and Laertus fight?_______________________________________

What does the King put into the goblet?___________________________________

What causes the Queen’s death?____________________________________________

How does Laertes die?____________________________________________________

Who kills the King?_____________________________________________________

What two things kill the King?_____________________________________________

What happens to Hamlet in the end?________________________________________

What does Hamlet ask Horateo to tell?___________________________ _______