WorksheetsHamlet Acts 1-3
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 9mins
At the beginning of the play, how long has King Hamlet been dead?
Less than two months
Just over a week
Just under a year
Roughly six months
King Claudius is related to Hamlet because he is his (a) (one word)?
Laertes warns Ophelia before leaving for France saying, "Perhaps he loves you now...but you must fear, his greatness weighed, his will is not his own, for he himself is subject to his birth." This means he may love her but his duty is to Denmark and the crown. Which character is Laertes talking about?
Polonius
Claudius
Horatio
Hamlet
The king's ghost reveals to Hamlet that he was murdered by what means?
snake bite
suffocation
spiked drink
poison in his ear
Twice the king's ghost comes to Hamlet to tell him to NOT harm which character?
Ophelia
Gertrude
Claudius
Hamlet
Why are Hamlet's friends from school, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in Denmark?
To visit Hamlet and Ophelia
To spy on Hamlet for the king & queen
For the wedding of the King and Gertrude
Because Polonius tells them Hamlet is mad
What is Hamlet planning in order to "catch the conscience of the King" and confirm that he is guilty?
Write a play scene that re-enacts the murder
Fake suicide so he can haunt him as a ghost
Spy on him during confession
Make him think the plague is caused by his guilt
In the famous "to be or not to be" soliloquy, what keeps Hamlet from taking his own life?
Because he must get revenge first
Because his father would attack him in the beyond
Because he is in love with Ophelia
Because he doesn't know what comes after death
Why won't Hamlet kill Claudius when he finds him after the play praying?
Because he is still not sure he is guilty
Because he might go to heaven while praying
Because he is a coward
Because his mother is waiting for him
Whom does Hamlet kill during his altercation with his mother after the play?
Gertrude
Claudius
Ophelia
Polonius
Key Quote #1: Complete this famous quote from Act 1: "This above all; to thine own self be (a) ."
Key quote #2: Complete this famous quote from Act 1: "Something is rotten in the state of (a) "
Key quote #3: Five times Hamlet tells Ophelia to get thee "to a _______________."
nunnery
dungeon
church
apothecary
Author connection: Hamlet was written shortly after Shakespeare lost his son. His son's name was:
Hamlet
William
Horatio
Hamnet
What is your opinion at this point in the play? Is Hamlet going mad?
Yes, he is going mad
No, he is faking it to mess with others
Yes and no- he is suicidal but also quite smart
Other
