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Hamlet Act III

Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
 

 1. 

Ophelia tries to return what to Hamlet?
a.
money
c.
a book
b.
letters and gifts
d.
nothing
 

 2. 

Which two characters control Ophelia, using her as “bait” to observe Hamlet?
a.
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
c.
Gertrude and Claudius
b.
Horatio and Claudius
d.
Polonius and Claudius
 

Yes/No
Indicate whether you agree with the statement.
 

 3. 

Have Rosencrantz and Guildenstern been successful in learning the cause of Hamlet’s madness?
 

Completion
Complete each statement.
 

 4. 

When Hamlet hears a noise behind the curtains in his mother’s bedroom, he thinks _________ is hiding there.     
 

 

 5. 

Hamlet stabs through the curtains, then lifts them and discovers that he has killed ________.
 

 

 6. 

In Act 3 scene 4, Hamlet speaks harshly to _______.
 

 

Short Answer
 

 7. 

What character adds in extra lines for the Players to perform?
 

 8. 

Which character rises from the audience calling off the play?     
 

 9. 

Who tells Hamlet that his mother wishes to speak to him?
 

 10. 

Who decides to send Hamlet to England?
 

 11. 

In order to spy on Hamlet, who hides behind the arras in Gertrude’s bedroom?
 

 12. 

The ghost enters Gertude’s bedroom. Who can see it?
 

 13. 

At the end of the Act III, Hamlet says that he will not trust his two school fellows. Who are they?
 



 
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