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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the weather like at the beginning of the play?
(a) Pouring rain.
(b) Hot.
(c) Very cold.
(d) Snowing.

2. What does Horatio say the ghost might do to Hamlet?
(a) Curse him.
(b) Bless him.
(c) Drive him crazy.
(d) Kill him.

3. Who is Ophelia in love with?
(a) Laertes.
(b) Polonius.
(c) Horatio.
(d) Hamlet.

4. Who is Ophelia?
(a) Daughter of Hamlet, sister of Horatio.
(b) Daughter of Polonius, sister of Laertes.
(c) Daughter of Gertrude, sister of Hamlet.
(d) Daughter of Claudius, cousin of Hamlet.

5. Who does the ghost in Act 1, Scene 1 look like?
(a) The Queen.
(b) The king's advisor, Polonius.
(c) The prince, Hamlet.
(d) The king who just died.

Short Answer Questions

1. After watching the players give a speech about Hecuba and Priam, what does Hamlet say impresses him the most?

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

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

4. Polonius gives Reynaldo very specific instructions about how to find the information he wants. What are those instructions?

5. After his first meeting with the ghost, what does Hamlet ask his friends to do?

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