Hamlet Final Test
Study Guide
Part A. The Cast. Be able to match major characters with their descriptions, based on their
relationship to one another and/or significant events in Act V. (10 items)
Laertes Horatio Ophelia Claudius
Fortinbras Hamlet Yorick Gertrude
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern
Part B. The Plot. Be able to distinguish between true and false statements about the entire play.
(20 items)
Review your Acts I-V study questions.
Part C. The Language. Be able to use context clues to choose the appropriate vocabulary word
to complete a sentence. (10 items)
Apparition Calumnious Canon Countenance
Discourse Imminent Perilous Portentous
Prodigal Sullied Commission Firmament
Malefaction Pestilent Promontory Sovereign
Tedious Paradox Perceive Pious
Resolution Visage Abatement Convocation
Cunning Impetuous Profound Rendezvous
Churlish Conjure Equivocation Potent
Treachery Umbrage
Part D. The Script. Be able to identify the speaker, occasion, and significance of each of the
following quotes. (5 items, 20 pts)
1. “Sweets to the sweet, farewell! I hoped thou shouldst have been my Hamlet’s wife; I
thought thy bride-bed to have decked, sweet maid, and not have strewed thy grave.” (V. i.
254-257)
2. “I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers could not with all their quantity of love make
up my sum.” (V. i. 285-286)
3. “Why, man, they did make love to this employment. They are not near my conscience.
Their defeat does by their own insinuation grow.” (V. ii. 64-66)
4. “If it be now, ‘tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it
will come. The readiness is all. Since no man of aught he leaves knows, what is ‘t to
leave betimes? Let be.” (V. ii. 233-238)
5. “Exchange forgiveness with me, noble Hamlet. Mine and my father’s death come not
upon thee, nor thine on me.” (V. ii. 361-363)
6. “If ever thou didst hold me in thy heart, absent thee from felicity awhile and in this harsh
world draw thy breath in pain to tell my story.” (V. ii. 381-384)
7. “Now cracks a noble heart. Good night, sweet prince, and flights of angels sing thee to
thy rest.” (V. ii. 397-398)