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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the public explanation of the last king's death?
(a) He had a heart attack.
(b) He was stung by a serpent.
(c) He died in his sleep.
(d) He was stabbed.

2. Polonius asks Claudius to arrange for Hamlet to go somewhere after the play's performance. Where is Hamlet supposed to go?
(a) To see Ophelia.
(b) To see a doctor.
(c) To see his mother.
(d) To see Claudius.

3. Before Hamlet hears about the ghost, how does he feel about Claudius?
(a) He loves him.
(b) He misses him.
(c) He does not trust him.
(d) He is afraid of him.

4. What happens to Ophelia after her father's death?
(a) She goes crazy.
(b) She wants to kill Hamlet.
(c) She gets sick.
(d) She blames Claudius for her father's death.

5. Hamlet finally tells Claudius how to find the body of his first victim: "But indeed, if you find him not within this month, you shall nose him as you go up the stairs into the lobby." How is Hamlet saying that they might find the body?
(a) Climb the stairs and you will see the body in the lobby.
(b) Wait a month till the ground thaws and the grave will be revealed.
(c) Wait a month and you will smell where it is.
(d) The body is waiting on the lobby stairs.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Horatio describe the ghost to Hamlet?

2. What message do the ambassadors bring Claudius back from Norway?

3. 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?

4. What do Rosencrantz and Guildenstern tell Claudius that Hamlet is excited about in Act 3, Scene 1?

5. When Laertes returns after his father's death, what do the common people say about him?

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