ACT IV (P5)

Claudius says he doesn't kill Hamlet because

• the people love him

• his mother loves him

• it would hurt his political power

• all of these

Fortinbras is fighting for

• "a straw"

• "an eggshell"

• a piece of Poland

• all of these

Hamlet says to be great

• one must conquer foreign lands

• one must value love above all else

• one must defend their honor above all else

• one must die for his people

Ophelia sings songs about

• her dead father

• her lost ambitions

• her love for Laertes

• all of these

The thing Laertes is MOST angry about is

• Ophelia being driven insane

• The lies of Claudius

• The improper burial of his father

• Horatio helping Hamlet

Hamlet being captured by pirates, then convincing them to take him home is a prime example of

• situational irony

• dramatic irony

• verbal irony

• all of these

Claudius has heard of Laertes fencing prowess from

• a Frenchman

• a German

• a Pole

• a Norwegian

Claudius and Laertes plan _____ different ways to poison Hamlet.

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

Ophelia died when she was

• picking flowers off a tree

• sleeping in the snow

• drank poison

• jumped off the top of Elsinore Castle

Gertrude says that in her final moments Ophelia resembled

• an angel

• a nymph

• a mermaid

• a flower