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Hamlet

by William Shakespeare

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Hamlet Overview Quiz

To quiz, or not to quiz? To quiz, of course! Test your knowledge of Shakespeare's famous play with eNotes' Hamlet Overview Quiz, covering major and minor plot points, characters, and other details from the work.

  1. How does the Ghost of King Hamlet say his son should deal with his mother's treachery?

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  2. Who does Laertes warn Ophelia not to trust?

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  3. Horatio warns that, perhaps worse than death, the ghost might:

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  4. How does Ophelia die?

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  5. Why does Polonius send Reynaldo to Paris?

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  6. What is the name of the play Hamlet asks the players to modify and perform?

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  7. Both Hamlet and Horatio had been in college in which city?

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  8. How did Claudius murder King Hamlet?

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  9. Only one of these characters is unable to see the Ghost of King Hamlet:

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  10. How does Hamlet die?

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