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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 4, Scene 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The sailors from the pirate ships deliver letters to Elsinore. Who are the letters from?
(a) Horatio.
(b) Laertes.
(c) Hamlet.
(d) Gertrude.

2. Before the play is performed, Hamlet has a long conversation with the First Player. What is he telling the Player?
(a) Hamlet is coaching him on how to perform.
(b) Hamlet is complaining about how Ophelia is acting.
(c) Hamlet is telling him about the king's death.
(d) Hamlet is asking him about the life of an actor.

3. When he is giving Laertes advice, what does Polonius say about friends?
(a) Good people always have lots of friends.
(b) Keep your good friends close to you.
(c) Do not worry about making friends.
(d) Good people rarely have any friends.

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

5. Hamlet says of Claudius: "He took my father grossly, full of bread; With all his crimes broad blown, as flush as May." What does Hamlet mean by that?
(a) Claudius killed Hamlet's father by poisoning him with a heavy meal.
(b) Claudius killed Hamlet's father before Hamlet's father could repent his sins.
(c) Claudius looks like Hamlet's father.
(d) Claudius killed Hamlet's father when he was sleeping after a heavy meal.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Ophelia?

2. In the letter that the sailors deliver in Act 4, Scene 6, it says: "when thou shalt have overlooked this, give these fellows some means to the king: they have letters for him." What is the writer of the letter asking?

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

4. What is the public explanation of the last king's death?

5. In Act 2, Scene 1, what does Ophelia say about the look on Hamlet's face?

(see the answer key)

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