Question 1

5.1 Why are the gravediggers arguing about Ophelia?

Accepted Answer

Because they hear that she has killed herself

Answer

Because they feel pity for Laertes

Answer

Because they do not believe that Ophelia has died

Answer

Because they remember her being beautiful

Question 2

5.1 What does the gravedigger say to Hamlet when he asks whose grave he is digging?

Accepted Answer

He says that it’s his own grave.

Answer

He says that it’s Polonius’s grave.

Answer

He says that it’s Opheilia’s grave.

Answer

He says that it’s Hamlet’s grave.

Question 3

5.1 What does Hamlet notice about the funeral procession?

Accepted Answer

That the procession seems irregular and suggests a suicide

Answer

That the funeral does not seem particularly sad

Answer

That those who are mourning seem excessively upset

Answer

That Laertes has returned to take part in the funeral

Question 4

5.1 What does Hamlet say to Laertes upon realizing that it is Ophelia’s funeral?

Accepted Answer

That he loved Ophelia in ways that no one could understand

Answer

That Laertes is a terrible brother

Answer

That he vows to take his own life now that Ophelia is dead

Answer

That he feels Ophelia’s death is a punishment for his own bad deeds

Question 5

5.1 What finally appeases Laertes at Ophelia’s funeral?

Accepted Answer

Claudius reminds Laertes that they have a plan to kill Hamlet.

Answer

Hamlet expresses his true feelings for Ophelia.

Answer

Hamlet makes a fool of himself.

Answer

Gertrude and Claudius say that Hamlet is insane.

Question 6

5.2 What does Hamlet tell Horatio about death?

Accepted Answer

That it is inevitable

Answer

That thinking about it comforts him

Answer

That he fears it

Answer

That it should be fought at all costs

Question 7

5.2 How does Gertrude die?

Accepted Answer

She accidentally drinks wine that Claudius poisoned.

Answer

She kills herself with a sword.

Answer

Horatio kills her with a fencing foil.

Question 8

5.2 How does Hamlet find out about Claudius’s plan?

Accepted Answer

Laertes makes a dying declaration.

Answer

Horatio finds the poison.

Answer

Gertrude tells him what she knows.

Answer

He overhears Claudius discussing it.

Question 9

5.2 What does the dying Hamlet tell Horatio to do?

Accepted Answer

Live and pass along his story

Answer

Become king

Answer

Avenge his death

Answer

Mourn for him

Question 10

5.2 Who rules Denmark at the end of the play?

Accepted Answer

Fortinbras

Answer

Rosencrantz

Answer

Horatio

Answer

Guildenstern

Related quizzes

Related quizzes