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Hamlet Quiz 1 (60 MCQs)

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1. In Scene 1, what does Gertrude reveal to Claudius?
2. Why doesn't Hamlet kill Claudius while he is praying?
3. Hamlet's parents invite Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to Denmark to .....
4. What does Hamlet criticize?
5. Who is deceased, yet still shows up in Act I?
6. Of which country does Hamlet's family rule over?
7. Who is Claudius to Hamlet?
8. What news does the Queen bring Laertes?
9. Who once played Julius Caesar?
10. The gravediggers suggest the idea that
11. What is Shakespeare's famous line in Polonius' speech to Laertes?
12. Why did Polonius delay telling the King and Queen about Hamlet's madness?
13. Hamlet claims to be afflicted by
14. What is Gertrude's reaction to The Murder of Gonzago?
15. Who said, "there are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio? "
16. Which of these relationships would not be construed as incestuous?
17. Who survives at the end of the play?
18. An example of a flat character would be:
19. Who all die from the poison?
20. Name the literary device Shakespeare uses when a character is speaking alone on the stage.
21. What is a stage where people perform the character or the story by expressing the feeling of the character in the form of acting or performance.
22. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are:
23. What is Hamlet debating when he gives his "To be, or not to be" soliloquy?
24. The young prince of Norway, whose father the king and was killed by Hamlet's father
25. Hamlet is set in
26. Who says, "But now my cousin Hamlet ..... and my son"
27. In the bedroom scene (scene iv), Hamlet forces Gertrude to look at two pictures
28. Act 3 Scene 4:Why does the ghost return?
29. What is the function of the play-within-the-play?
30. What is NOT poisoned?
31. Gertrude presents Ophelia's death as an accident, but it may .....
32. The ambassadors to Norway return and announce that:
33. For his own safety (according to his stepfather) Hamlet is sent to .....
34. What poisons the drink?
35. How is Ophelia and Hamlet descend to madness different
36. Who takes over Denmark?
37. Wick's assistant
38. What does "mirth" mean?
39. How many people do the pirates capture?
40. The Ghost appears in Scene 4 to
41. How would you describe hamlet in act 1 scene 2?
42. Who says "In heaven, send thither to see. If your messenger find him not there, seek him i'the other place yourself" ?
43. What is the purpose of the play, The Murder of Ganzago, to be staged by the traveling actors?
44. What group of people arrives in Act II, Scene II?
45. What do Marcellus, Bernardo, and Horatio do when Hamlet starts to follow the Ghost?
46. Old King Hamlet was killed by
47. Which is NOT a symbol found in Hamlet?
48. Polonius is father to who?
49. How is Claudius related to Hamlet BEFORE marrying Gertrude?
50. Who does Hamlet kill during the "closet scene? "
51. What does Hamlet mean when he says his thoughts will be bloody?
52. What is the name of the playlet Hamlet stages for Claudius?
53. When Rosencrantz and Guildenstern tell Hamlet that the king is very disturbed, what does Hamlet suggest as the reason?
54. Polonius talks so much he .....
55. Question:The play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.
56. The ghost has come again to
57. The King had panned that Hamlet would be killed in England.Instead, Hamlet has arranged that ..... will be put to death there.
58. Claudius feels some guilt about what he had done. At one point, he thinks to himself, "Oh, my crime is so rotten it stinks all the way to heaven. It has the mark of Cain on it, a brother's murder." This is an example of:
59. How does Laertes die?
60. What does Polonius think is wrong with Hamlet?
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