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1. In Act 1 of "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare, when King Claudius calls Hamlet his cousin and his son, what is Hamlet's reply?
2. When Shakespeare's Hamlet and his friend Horatio discuss the hasty marriage of Hamlet's mother to his Uncle Claudius soon after his father's funeral, what does Hamlet ironically propose as the reason?
3. In Act 2 of Shakespeare's play, what does Hamlet say when Polonius asks, "What do you read, my Lord?"
4. In Act 3 of Shakespeare's "Hamlet"-in the famous "To be or not to be" soliloquy-Hamlet says that conscience has a specific effect. What does Hamlet say that conscience does?
5. In Act 3 of Shakespeare's play, where does Hamlet tell his girlfriend Ophelia to go?
6. In Act 3 of Shakespeare's "Hamlet"-- as Hamlet coaches the actors about performing his rewritten version of their play-- how does he advise the player to "Speak the speech"?
7. As the "play within a play" is performed in Act 3 of Shakespeare's "Hamlet" the king asks Hamlet for the name of the play. What does Hamlet say the play is called?
8. In Act 4 of Shakespeare's play, after Hamlet has accidentally killed Polonius and dragged away his body, the king asks, "Now, Hamlet, where's Polonius?" What does Hamlet say?
9. Most of us know of the graveyard scene in Shakespeare's "Hamlet" when Hamlet holds a skull uncovered by the gravediggers and declares, "Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy." But what childhood memory does Hamlet have of Yorick doing "a thousand times"?
10. Hamlet does not speak the last lines of Shakespeare's play "Hamlet" but does get some last words in Act 5. What are the last four words uttered by Hamlet in the play, in the speech that begins, "O, I die, Horatio!"?
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