Hamlet - Bodies, bodies, everywhere...

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1. Which one of these "Hamlet" characters wasn't even alive at the beginning of the play? Marcellus Yorick Bernardo Fortinbras

2. Which character went mad before drowning? Polonius Gertrude Ophelia Laertes

3. How did Hamlet deal with his disloyal friends Rosencrantz and Guildenstern? Sent a loyal servant to murder them. Had them arrested and imprisoned. Tearfully forgave them. Forged their death warrants.

4. Who does Hamlet mistakenly stab through a curtain? Horatio Bernardo Marcellus Polonius

5. Who does not die by the means of a poison-tipped sword? Claudius Hamlet Reynaldo Laertes

6. How did Claudius murder Hamlet's father? By pouring poison into his ear while he slept. By stabbing him in the back. In a sword duel. He didn't. Gertrude did.

7. Who was responsible for Gertrude's death? Laertes Hamlet Claudius Polonius

8. Why didn't Hamlet kill Claudius the first time he set out to do so? He didn't want to make his mother a widow again. He found Claudius kneeling in prayer. Claudius' guards frightened him away. Claudius begged for mercy.

9. What did Hamlet's father's ghost reveal to him about his mother? That she was not Hamlet's real mother. That Osric was Hamlet's half-brother by a past affair of his mother. That his mother was a witch. That she had been seduced by Claudius.

10. Not counting Yorick and the Ghost, who were already dead, what was the final body count in "Hamlet?" 8 11 5 6