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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT HAMLET EXAM
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Question 1: 10. Who umpired the fencing match between Hamlet and Laertes?
Answer:
Osric
Question 2: 5. Who is Hamlet's mother?
Answer:
Gertrude
Question 3: 7. Who is Hamlet's uncle?
Answer:
Claudius
Question 4: 26. What did Hamlet want his mother to do?
Answer:
He wants her to stop sleeping with King Claudius
Question 5: 25. What did Hamlet and Horatio decide the King's reaction meant?
Answer:
They were convinced that the ghost was correct.
Question 6: 32. What happens to King Claudius?
Answer:
He is run through with Hamlet's sword.
Question 7: 15. What two things does Hamlet make Horatio swear?
Answer:
Hamlet asks Horatio not to reveal the events of the evening, and to go along with Hamlet if he pretends to be crazy.Question 8: 21. What causes Hamlet to say, "My thoughts be bloody or be nothing worth!"?
Answer:
he realizes that his father has ben murdered, his uncle is the murdered, his mother is living in an incestuous marriage, and the soldiers he has just seen are going to kill each other over a little pice of land which is not worth anything.
Question 9: 27. How does Polonius die?
Answer:
Polonius is hiding in the Queen's room while she and Hamlet are talking. Hamlet runs through the tapestry, thinking it may be Claudius and kills Polonius.Question 10: 23. How does the King console Laertes after Laertes and Hamlet are separated?
Answer:
The King tell Laertes not to worry, that he (Laertes) will soon have the appropriate time and place to kill Hamlet.Question 11: 16. Paraphrase Hamlet's famous "To be or not to be" soliloquy.
Answer:
He is pondering whether a miserable life is better than the unknown of death.
Question 12: 31. What happens to Laertes?
Answer:
He is killed by the poison on his own sword.
Question 13: 3. Who is the daughter of Polonius?
Answer:
Ophelia
Question 14: 4. Who does Polonius send to Paris to report on Laertes' conduct?
Answer:
Reynaldo
Question 15: 28. Who doesn't Hamlet kill the King when the King is kneeling?
Answer:
Hamlet wants the King to die without a chance for a last confession. If he is praying, he might not be in enough sin to get eternal punishment.
Question 16: 13. Give two reasons Hamlet is upset?
Answer:
His father has died, and his uncle has married his mother less than two months after his father's death.Question 17: 8. Who came to Elsinore to help the king find out what Hamlet find out what Hamlet's trouble was?
Answer:
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
Question 18: 12. What arrangement does Hamlet make with Player 1?
Answer:
He added lines that resemble the murder of his father.
Question 19: 24. What was the King's reaction to the play?
Answer:
The King got up and called for the lights.
Question 20: 2. Who is Lord Chamberlain and chief counselor to Claudius?
Answer:
Polonius
Question 21: 1. Who is the Prince of Denmark who has lost his father?
Answer:
Hamlet
Question 22: 29. Why does Hamlet jump into Ophelia's grave?
Answer:
He wants to appear to be grieving like Laertes.
Question 23: 20. What does Hamlet do to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern?
Answer:
He replaced their letters (which called for Hamlet's execution) with letters which called for their executions.
Question 24: 11. Who was a student and loyal friend of Hamlet?
Answer:
Horatio
Question 25: 22. What plan do the King and Laertes have to kill Hamlet?
Answer:
They plan to set up a duel between Laertes and Hamlet. Either Laertes will honorably kill Hamlet, or, if he survives, the King will poison him.
Question 26: 6. Who is Ophelia's brother?
Answer:
Laertes Question 27: 19. What is Polonius' plan for testing his theory about Hamlet's maddens?
Answer:
He wants to have Hamlet meet Ophelia. He will hide and eavesdrop on the conversation.