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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. At the end of Act 4, Scene 2, what does Hamlet agree to do?
(a) Talk to Gertrude.
(b) See a doctor.
(c) Go to England.
(d) Go see the king.

2. What happens between Laertes and Hamlet in the graveyard scene?
(a) They shake hands over Ophelia's grave.
(b) They both jump into Ophelia's grave and get in a fight.
(c) Laertes blames Hamlet for his sister's death.
(d) Laertes tries to kill Hamlet.

3. When Laertes returns after his father's death, what do the common people say about him?
(a) They think he is to blame for the last king's death
(b) They think he should lead the armies against Norway.
(c) They want to make him king.
(d) They want to kill him.

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

5. 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 put on trial for murder.
(c) Hamlet should be locked away forever.
(d) Hamlet should be put to death.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Hamlet visits his mother in her room in Act 3, Scene 4, he speaks very harshly to his mother. What makes him stop?

2. When he is asked where his first victim's body is, what does Hamlet do?

3. As Gertrude lays flowers at Ophelia's grave, what does she say?

4. Claudius asks Hamlet a second time about where they can find his victim. Hamlet responds, "In heaven; send hither to see: if your messenger find him not there, seek him i' the other place yourself." What other place is Hamlet suggesting Claudius visit?

5. Where does Claudius want the body of Hamlet's first victim to be taken?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Act 4, Scene 5, Claudius is almost overthrown by a violent mob. Who does the mob want to be king in his place?

2. As Hamlet travels to the boat for England, what or who does Hamlet find on a plain in Denmark?

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

4. Who is Yorick, and why does he come up in Act 5?

5. How does Hamlet suggest that Claudius and his servants might find Polonius's body?

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

7. Whose burial does Hamlet witness in Act 5?

8. When Hamlet hears about Fortinbras and his attacks on Poland, what does he say about Fortinbras and about himself?

9. How does Hamlet avoid going to England?

10. Who is the first person in Elsinore to find out that Hamlet is on his way back to Denmark instead of going to England? How does that person find out?

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