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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 4, Scene 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After the play is performed, what do Rosencrantz and Guildenstern ask Hamlet to do?
(a) Go see Claudius.
(b) Ask the players to leave Elsinore.
(c) Go see Ophelia.
(d) Go see his mother.

2. After Laertes has left in Act 1, Scene 3, Polonius talks to Ophelia about her romance. What does Polonius tell her?
(a) Do not go to bed with him.
(b) Ask him to marry you.
(c) Make sure he does not hurt you.
(d) Do not trust his promises of love.

3. What does Hamlet tell his friends about his meeting with the ghost?
(a) He tells them nothing.
(b) He repeats the truth about the last king's death.
(c) He says the ghost is a liar.
(d) He pretends that he did not see a ghost.

4. Polonius gives Laertes plenty of advice before Laertes leaves Elsinore. What does Polonius tell Laertes about talking and listening to people?
(a) Let women do the talking; men should listen.
(b) Talk to people, but do not listen to them.
(c) Practice talking to strangers to build up your confidence.
(d) Listen to people, but do not talk very much.

5. At the end of the first act, what does Hamlet warn his friends he might do?
(a) Pretend to be crazy.
(b) Kill somebody.
(c) Leave the country forever.
(d) Get married.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Act 1, Scene 3, before Laertes leaves Elsinore, Polonius gives him advice about clothes. What does Polonius say?

2. Hamlet says "The time is out of joint: O cursed spite/ That ever I was born to set it right!" What does that mean?

3. Before he returns to school, what does Laertes tell Ophelia about her boyfriend?

4. In Act 1, Scene 3, what does Polonius ask Ophelia to do about Hamlet?

5. When the ghost first speaks to Hamlet, how does it describe its experience?

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