Scene 1
Scene 2
Scene 3
Scene 4
Scene 5
100

Who is Hamlet’s best friend?

Horatio

100

How long was Hamlet’s father dead when his wife remarried?

Two months

100

What is the relationship between Ophelia and Laertes?

Siblings (Sister - Brother)

100

True or False: Marcellus and Horatio thought it was a bad idea for Hamlet to follow the ghost.

True

100

According to the ghost, how was King Hamlet murdered?

Claudius poured poison into King Hamlet’s ear

200

What caused the Ghost to disappear the first time it appeared in the play?

The rooster’s crow / the morning

200

Why was Hamlet wearing black clothes during the King and Queen’s wedding?

He was mourning his father’s death.

200

What is Polonius to Ophelia?

Father

200

What is the King doing during Act 1 Scene 4?

Drinking and Celebrating

200

What does the ghost want Hamlet to do?

Revenge

300

Why was the Ghost in armor?

An ongoing war

300

Who said the following quote?: “Frailty, thy name is woman!”

Hamlet

300

What advice do both Polonius and Laertes give to Ophelia?

Stay away / Don’t trust / will take your virginity

300

Why are Hamlet's friends reluctant to let Hamlet follow the ghost?

They are afraid the ghost will trick Hamlet into doing something self-destructive like walk off a cliff or walk into the ocean.

300

Who said this quote?: “Adieu, adieu, adieu! Remember me!”

The Ghost
400

What time does the Ghost appear?

Midnight

400

Who were the two soldiers that first spotted the Ghost?


Marcellus and Bernardo

400

Laertes leaves Elsinore. Where is Laertes going? 


France

400

When Hamlet sees his father's ghost for the first time, what does the ghost silently ask Hamlet to do? Demonstrate it!

Beckoning

400

What does this quote mean?: “The glow-worm shows the matin to be near”

Sun is rising and the morning is coming

500

Hamlet references another of Shakespeare’s plays and a major historical event in the first scene. What is it?

Julius Caesar

500

Who said this quote?: “But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue!”

Hamlet

500

Who said this quote?: “Neither a borrower nor a lender be.”

Polonius

500

What does it mean by the “canonized bones”?

Buried according to Church ceremonies

500

What did everyone think was the cause of King Hamlet’s death?

King Hamlet was bitten by the poisonous snake