Hamlet Act 1 Review Quiz

When the audience knows more about what is happening than the characters on stage

• Dramatic Irony

• Situational Irony

• Aside

• Personification

Are you Lion Kinging with me? Match the following Lion King character to their Hamlet counterpart.

• Hamlet

• 
• Polonius

• 
• Claudius

• 
• Ghost Hamlet

• 
• Rosencrantz & Guildenstern

• 

​ (a)   and ​ the other guards notice ​ (b)   while on night watch. They first decide to ask ​ (c)   to speak to it because ​ (d)   .

• Marcellus
• a ghost
• Horatio
• he is educated
• Hamlet
• King Claudius
• he is the prince
• the ghost is his father
• Ophelia
• Polonius

Where does Hamlet take place?

• Italy

• Denmark

• Norway

• Sweeden

Reorder the following

• The guards notice a ghost.

• Hamlet speaks to the ghost.

• The ghost tells Hamlet about his death.

• Hamlet decides to get revenge.

• Hamlet begins acting "mad".

Who is potentially setting up an attack on Denmark (in Act 1)?

• Sweeden

• Old Norway

• Young Fortinbras

• Hamlet

What advice does Polonius NOT give his son, Laertes, before Laertes goes back to college?

• Don't lend or borrow money.

• To your own self be true.

• Get in fights often.

• Find good friends and hold on to them.

______ gives advice to Ophelia about her relationship with Hamlet.

​The story goes that ​ (a)   was killed by ​ (b)   . But really​ he was killed by ​ (c)   using ​ (d)   .

• King Hamlet
• a serpent
• Claudius
• poison
• a knife
• Fortinbras
• himself
• Gertrude
• Polonius
• arrows

Why don't Hamlet's friends trust the ghost?

• It might be a demon leading him to his death.

• They do trust the ghost.

• They do not believe in ghosts.

• They already know how King Hamlet died.