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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) The body is waiting on the lobby stairs.
(d) Wait a month and you will smell where it is.

2. After the play is performed, what do Rosencrantz and Guildenstern ask Hamlet to do?
(a) Go see Claudius.
(b) Ask the players to leave Elsinore.
(c) Go see Ophelia.
(d) Go see his mother.

3. After Laertes has left in Act 1, Scene 3, Polonius talks to Ophelia about her romance. What does Polonius tell her?
(a) Do not go to bed with him.
(b) Make sure he does not hurt you.
(c) Ask him to marry you.
(d) Do not trust his promises of love.

4. In Act 2, Scene 1, what does Ophelia say about the look on Hamlet's face?
(a) He looked like he came out of Hell.
(b) He looked like he had seen a ghost.
(c) He looked like he wanted to kiss her.
(d) He looked like he was ready to cry.

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 when he was sleeping after a heavy meal.
(b) Claudius looks like Hamlet's father.
(c) Claudius killed Hamlet's father before Hamlet's father could repent his sins.
(d) Claudius killed Hamlet's father by poisoning him with a heavy meal.

Short Answer Questions

1. Claudius says his crime "hath the primal eldest curse upon't." What does he mean?

2. Before the play is performed, Hamlet has a long conversation with the First Player. What is he telling the Player?

3. When Hamlet and his friends first see the ghost, what do Hamlet's friends tell him to do?

4. Hamlet makes an ominous statement about married people: "those that are married already, all but one, shall live." What does that mean and who is he talking about?

5. What does Ophelia she say about the herb rosemary?

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