1. Act IV Study Guide Assignment Turn in your work! You need your own copy. If you have a perfect score on this assignment, you will not be required to take the Act IV quiz. If you finish early, you can prepare for your vocab quiz on the Act IV list.

2. Act IV Scene i Death of Polonius revealed by Gertrude to Claudius Claudius immediately thinks of his own danger Read the text of this scene and answer the questions which follow. Click here Click here for the modern text or see page 95.

3. Act IV Scene ii Comic relief (follow the link if you don’t know what this is) Comic relief Mistrust of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Read the text of this scene and answer the questions which follow. Click here Click here for the modern text or see page 97.

4. Act IV Scene iii Continued comic relief – dark, double meaning in Hamlet’s lines Whereabouts of Polonius’ body is revealed Hamlet to go to England by order of Claudius Claudius reveals a secret plot Read the text of this scene and answer the questions which follow. Click here Click here for the modern text or see page 98.

5. Act IV Scene iv Fortinbras army is in Denmark Hamlet’s soliloquy “How all occasions do inform against me…” Read the text of this scene and answer the questions which follow. Click here Click here for the modern text or see page 101.

6. Act IV Scene v Read pages 104- line 75 on page 107. Answer 1-4 Don’t worry if Ophelia’s lines don’t seem to make sense…they don’t…

7. Act IV Scene v Read pages 107-112 Answer 5-8

8. Act IV Scene vi Horatio receives a message from Hamlet which is delivered by a sailor. Read the letter below. Answer 9-11. 'Horatio, when you read this, give these fellows some way to talk to the king. They have letters for him. Before we were even at sea for two days, a very nasty looking pirate chased us. Finding ourselves sailing too slow, we put up a great fight, and, in the skirmish, I boarded them. Just then, they sailed away from our ship, so only I became their prisoner. They have dealt with me like thieves of mercy. but know what they had done, I am to do a good turn for them. Let the king have the letters I have sent, and come to see me with as much haste as you would fly death. I have words to speak into your ear will make you speechless, but are they much too light for the heart of the matter. These good fellows will bring you to where I am. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are still going to England. I have much to tell you about them. Goodbye. He that you knows you, HAMLET. '

9. Act IV Scene vii Read the text of this scene and answer the questions which follow. Click here Click here for the modern text or see page 114. Answer 12- 20.