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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 2, Scene 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Claudius?
(a) Hamlet's uncle and the new king.
(b) The Prince of Norway.
(c) Hamlet's father.
(d) Hamlet's brother.

2. As Hamlet and the others wait to see the ghost in Act 1, Scene 4, what do they hear in the distance?
(a) Drunken singing.
(b) Men shouting and women screaming.
(c) A cock crowing.
(d) Trumpets being blown and ordinance being fired.

3. What is the Prince of Norway's name?
(a) Fortinbras.
(b) Marcellus.
(c) Horatio.
(d) Claudius.

4. When the ghost first speaks to Hamlet, how does it describe its experience?
(a) It walks at night and is frozen in a block of ice during the day.
(b) It walks at night and is tortured by day.
(c) It is tortured and burned in a fire all the time.
(d) It walks all the time, hoping someone will set it free.

5. In Act 1, Scene 3, before Laertes leaves Elsinore, Polonius gives him advice about clothes. What does Polonius say?
(a) Get costly, but not showy or ostentatious clothes.
(b) Buy the fanciest clothes you can find.
(c) Nobody pays attention to what you wear.
(d) Buy the least expensive clothes you can find.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

4. What other "crime" has been committed against the last king?

5. In Act 2, Scene 1, what does Ophelia say about Hamlet's clothes?

(see the answer key)

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