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? Yorick Bernardo Marcellus Fortinbras

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

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

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

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? In a sword duel. By pouring poison into his ear while he slept. By stabbing him in the back. He didn't. Gertrude did.

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

8. Why didn't Hamlet kill Claudius the first time he set out to do so? He found Claudius kneeling in prayer. Claudius' guards frightened him away. He didn't want to make his mother a widow again. 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 she had been seduced by Claudius. That his mother was a witch. That Osric was Hamlet's half-brother by a past affair of his mother.

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