Hamlet Act 5 Questions

According to the second gravedigger, why is Ophelia, who committed suicide, being given a christian burial? Because the king demanded it
What characterizes the gravedigger’s answers when Hamlet questions him? He had grave humor (jokes about being dead/graves)
In the graveyard, as Queen Gertrude is scattering flowers on Ophelia’s grave, what does she say that she once hoped would happen? That Hamlet and Ophelia would marry
What is Hamlet and Horatio’s attitude towards Osric? They think that he is stupid and annoying
When does the audience find out what finally happened to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern? Towards the middle of act 5
To what event is Hamlet referring to in his speech before the fencing match? “If it be now, ’tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now: if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all. Since no man knows aught of what he leaves, what is ‘t to leave betimes?” His “To be or not to be” soliloquy
Why does Hamlet, dying, take the trouble to name a successor to the throne of Denmark? So that there would be someone to the throne