Hamlet Act 4 Quiz

What does Hamlet think of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern?

• He calls them sponges, saying they soak up the King's words, commands, and gifts.

• He calls them leeches, saying they associate themselves with the King to appear superior to other commoners.

• He calls them monsters, saying they are selfish and look for ways to destroy others.

• He calls them monkeys, saying they follow the King's orders without thinking.

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Why must the King "not put the strong arm on" Hamlet?

• He is afraid that his soul would be permanently blackened if he committed any more evil deeds.

• He is protecting his wife. He thinks that Hamlet might try to hurt her if he is provoked.

• He needs to save all of his strength for fighting the enemies from other countries.

• Hamlet's mother would not want him harmed. The people of Denmark like him and would be upset if anything happened to him.

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When the King asks Hamlet where Polonius is, what is Hamlet's answer?

• First he says it is "not where he eats, but where he is eaten." Then he tells the King to look for him in Heaven, and if he can't find Polonius there, to go to "the other place" (hell) himself.

• First he says he has "brought the fair body to the chapel." Then he says it is in a place where no harm will come to it.

• First he says it is with the other vermin. Then he says it is on its way to England, so as not to desecrate good Danish soil.

• First he says Polonius is now "keeping company with my dear dead father." Later he tells the King he has put the body on display in the marketplace for all the people to see, telling them that this is what happens to those who disobey the King.

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What is the content of the letters the King sends with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to England with Hamlet?

• The King wants Hamlet to be killed as soon as he reaches England.

• The King sends money to the King of England to pay for Hamlet's upkeep for one year.

• The King sends a document saying that Hamlet is mad, and asking that he be imprisoned in the Tower of London until he regains his sanity.

• It is a letter thanking the King of England for his help, and inviting him and his wife to visit Denmark the following spring.

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What prompts Hamlet to say, "My thoughts be bloody or be nothing worth!"?

• He feels guilty for killing Polonius.

• He realizes that his father has been murdered, his uncle is a murderer, his mother is living in an incestuous marriage, and the soldiers he has just seen are going to kill each other over a little piece of land which is not worth anything.

• He decides to offer Rosencrantz and Guildenstern more money than the King is giving them, in the hopes that they will turn traitor on the King and murder him for Hamlet.

• He realizes that he has been thinking about death and destruction almost constantly.

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What has happened to Ophelia?

• She has married another man, chosen by her father.

• She has gone to a convent in Norway.

• She has defied her father and announced that she is going to England to be with Hamlet.

• She has gone crazy.

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Why does Laertes force his way in? What does he want?

• He wants to marry Ophelia.

• He wants to kidnap the Queen and hold her for ransom.

• He wants to avenge his father's death.

• He wants to be given the title to his father's lands.

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What is the content of Hamlet's letter to Horatio?

• He says he has escaped from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern onto a pirate ship, where he is being well treated. He asks Horatio to give letters to the King and Queen, and then to come to see him as quickly as possible.

• He tells him about his old friend Yorick.

• He expresses his regrets about the way he has treated Ophelia, but says that he has acted this way for a greater good.

• He asks Horatio to talk to the Queen for him; he thinks she might listen to Horatio.

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What plan do the King and Laertes discuss to kill Hamlet?

• They will go to see him, disguised as beggars, and then rob him and kill him.

• They plan to set up a duel between Laertes and Hamlet, where either Laertes will honorably kill Hamlet, or if he survives, the King will poison him.

• They plan to go to him and escort him back to Denmark, staging a shipwreck on the way to leave Hamlet to perish in the water, with a rescue by another ship planned.

• They plan to force Horatio to kill Hamlet, threatening to kill all the members of his family if he refuses.

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How did Ophelia die according to the Queen?

• She took poison.

• She died of a broken heart.

• She fell on her own knife.

• She drowned.

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