Hamlet Test Review-Acts 1-5

Which of the following characters did not see the ghost? 

• Marcellus
• Hamlet
• Gertrude
• Horatio

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What does Hamlet call Denmark and the whole world? 

• Paradise
• The only place to live
• Heaven
• Prison

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What is a soliloquy?

• Speech given to the audience with other actors onstage
• Speech given to the audience with no other actors on stage
• Comment give to the audience
• None of these

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Who is stabbed through an arras?

• Claudius
• Fortinbras
• Polonius
• King Hamlet

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CCSS.RL.11-12.1

What is an aside?

• A speech given to the audience with other actors onstage
• A speech given to the audience with no other actors on stage
• Neither Answer
• Both Answers

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What does the king say to stop Hamlet's play?

• A sword

• Help

• Polonius

• Light

Who escorts Hamlet on the voyage to England? 

• Cornelius and Voltimand
• Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
• Horatio
• Captain Jack Sparrow

What is Polonius' explanation for Hamlet's madness?

• He despises Claudius for marrying Gertrude
• He grieves too much for his father
• He is in love with Ophelia
• He hates his mother

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Who once played Julius Caesar? 

• Gertrude
• Hamlet
• Claudius
• Polonius

Who is Reynaldo

• Hamlet's Best Friend
• One of the King's Guards
• Polonius' Spy
• One of the gravediggers

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