Hamlet!

Who sees the ghost first?

• Hamlet

• Claudius

• Horatio

• Bernardo and Marcellus

Why is Hamlet angry before he meets the ghost?

• He isn't allowed to go back to school

• Ophelia rejected him

• His mom married his uncle right after his father died

• his uncle killed his father by putting poison in his ear in order to take the kingdom and marry his mother

How can you tell that hamlet is only acting crazy

• his lines make no sense

• his lines break traditional form

• his lines make no sense only when others are around

• his lines break traditional form only when others are around

what does "the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king" mean and why does Hamlet say it?

• Hamlet is planning on playing crazy until Claudius admits he killed the king

• Hamlet is putting on a play to show that Gertrude killed the king

• Hamlet is putting on a play to get proof that Claudius killed the king

• Hamlet enjoys watching people's reactions to plays he writes.

the ghost is actually...

• Hamlet from the future

• King Hamlet

• the devil

• a bat stuck in a bedsheet

How did the Hamlet's father die?

• tragic accident in the garden

• a potent poison in his ear

• Claudius stabbed him with a poisoned sword

• a plane crash

how is Polonius killed

• Hamlet thinks he might be the king hiding behind the curtain and stabs him.

• Hamlet is actually crazy, and thinks there is a man-sized rat hiding behind the curtain and stabs him in an attempt to kill said rat.

• Hamlet thinks there is a regular sized rat behind the curtain and stabs around about 3 feet above it and accidentally kills him

• Hamlet doesn't like eavesdroppers.

Hamlet gets sent to England...

• To punish him for killing Polonius

• because he knows too much

• to get him killed

• because Claudius didn't want the danish people to realize Hamlet was crazy

• for a pleasant holiday

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are hired by Claudius...

• to be Hamlet's friends because he's an angsty teen and needs some human companionship cause all he does is muse about death.

• to kill Hamlet

• to escort Hamlet on his vacation to England.

• to spy on Hamlet because they are his childhood friends and he should trust them

Who is Laertes

• Hamlet's Brother

• Ophelia's Brother

• Hamlet's main love interest

• Polonius' son

• Claudius' son