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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What additional method does Claudius suggest so that even if Hamlet wins the duel with Laertes, Hamlet will still die?
(a) Give Hamlet a poisoned drink.
(b) Arrest Hamlet for Polonius's death.
(c) Challenge Hamlet to a duel himself.
(d) Hire an assassin to kill Hamlet.

2. When Hamlet visits his mother in her room in Act 3, Scene 4, he speaks very harshly to his mother. What makes him stop?
(a) Claudius enters the room.
(b) Getrude kills herself.
(c) The ghost appears.
(d) Ophelia enters the room.

3. Claudius finally gives Rosencrantz and Guildenstern sealed orders for how to handle Hamlet. What do those orders say?
(a) Hamlet should be exiled from Denmark.
(b) Hamlet should be locked away forever.
(c) Hamlet should be put to death.
(d) Hamlet should be put on trial for murder.

4. At the end of the play, who will rule Denmark?
(a) Fortinbras.
(b) Horatio.
(c) Hamlet.
(d) Laertes.

5. As Gertrude lays flowers at Ophelia's grave, what does she say?
(a) She is glad Ophelia will be with her father now.
(b) She believes Ophelia is now an angel.
(c) She hoped Ophelia and Hamlet would marry.
(d) She is sorry Ophelia died so young.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Gertrude die?

2. Laertes comes up with another idea to make sure his duel with Hamlet will result in Hamlet's death. What is it?

3. When Hamlet and his mother finally talk in Gertrude's room, she says, "Hamlet, thou hast thy father much offended." Hamlet responds, "Mother, you have my father much offended." Why is that dialogue important?

4. As Laertes and Claudius discuss how to kill Hamlet, what news does Gertrude bring?

5. What happens to Ophelia after her father's death?

Short Essay Questions

1. List the major characters who die during the last scene of the play.

2. Whose burial does Hamlet witness in Act 5?

3. What plan do Laertes and Claudius come up with in Act 4, Scene 7 to kill Hamlet?

4. In the last scene of Act 3, Polonius is killed. At the end of the scene, what happens to his body?

5. At the end of the play, we learn of the death of two minor characters. Who are they, and how do we learn of their death?

6. How does Hamlet avoid going to England?

7. Hamlet calls Rosencrantz and Guildenstern "a sponge." Why does he say that?

8. After Polonius's death, who is sent to find Hamlet?

9. Claudius tells Laertes that Hamlet is responsible for Polonius's death. Claudius says that there are two reasons why he cannot have Hamlet publicly arrested and punished. What are those two reasons?

10. After Polonius's death, Ophelia comes to see Gertrude. What do we learn about Ophelia in that scene?

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