This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Genres > Drama > Hamlet – Quiz 14 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Hamlet Quiz 14 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. In Scene 7, what does Claudius intend to do as a back up to the plot with Laertes? A) Poison Hamlet's wine. B) Poison his own sword. C) Send Hamlet to the front lines of the war. D) Strangle Hamlet while he sleeps. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Poison Hamlet's wine. 2. Where was the setting? A) Elsinore, Denmark. B) Rome, Italy. C) Ontario, Canada. D) London, England. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Elsinore, Denmark. 3. "Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia, and therefore I forbid my tears." A) Laertes. B) Hamlet. C) Gertrude. D) Claudius. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Laertes. 4. What are the names of the emissaries that Claudius sends to the King of Norway? A) Simon and Garfunkle. B) Siskel and Ebert. C) Siegfried and Roy. D) Voltemand and Cornelius. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Voltemand and Cornelius. 5. Hamlet is really ..... A) Happy. B) Sad. C) Confused. D) Mean. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mean. 6. Claudius poisons ..... A) . B) . C) . D) . Show Answer Correct Answer: A) . 7. Hamlet's first long speech (lines 76-86) shows his A) Profound melancholy. B) Interest in acting. C) Need for concealment. D) Rage at his mother. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Profound melancholy. 8. Which country will attack Denmark? A) Norway. B) Germany. C) Denmark. D) Finland. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Norway. 9. In Hamlet, why is Laertes given rosemary and pansies? A) They represent infidelity and sorrow. B) They represent stinging and sharpness. C) They represent faithfulness and frailty. D) They represent remembrance and thoughts. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) They represent remembrance and thoughts. 10. ..... means an artistic and poetic expression or style using figurative images and indirect ideas to express mystical ideas, emotions, and states of mind. A) Style. B) Drama. C) Title. D) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Symbolism. 11. Who enters the room as Hamlet is speaking to his mother? A) Horatio. B) King Hamlet's Ghost. C) Claudius. D) Polonius. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) King Hamlet's Ghost. 12. An example of a dynamic character is: A) Polonius. B) Horatio. C) Hamlet. D) Claudius. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hamlet. 13. What is Hamlet's plan at the end of Act II? A) To go back to college. B) To create a play that matches his father's murder. C) To kill Claudius. D) To figure out who is spying on him. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To create a play that matches his father's murder. 14. In Scene 2, Hamlet's aside "A little more than kin and less than kind" reveals his A) Confusion over the way in which he is now related to Claudius. B) Respect for Claudius' new rank. C) Disgust at being called son by Claudius. D) Intention to pursue revenge against Claudius. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Disgust at being called son by Claudius. 15. When the play begins, the castle is celebrating ..... A) Hamlet's return. B) King Claudius and Queen Gertrude's marriage. C) Laertes' return. D) Old Hamlet defeat of Old Fortinbras. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) King Claudius and Queen Gertrude's marriage. 16. "Oh, my lord! My lord! I have been so affrighted!" A) Ophelia. B) Hamlet. C) Gertrude. D) Polonius. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ophelia. 17. Who admits "My lord, we were sent for" ? A) Cornelius. B) Rosencrantz. C) Laertes. D) Ophelia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rosencrantz. 18. Who sees the ghost of King Hamlet first? A) Hamlet. B) Horatio. C) Claudius. D) Bernardo and Marcellus. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bernardo and Marcellus. 19. Hamlet refers to whom as trying to play him like a flute? A) Laertes and Polonius. B) Rosencrantz and Guidenstern. C) Marcellus and Reynaldo. D) Ophelia and Gertrude. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rosencrantz and Guidenstern. 20. What would Hamlet have his mother do? A) He wants her to go to England. B) He wants her to stop sleeping with the King. C) He wants her to have the marriage annulled by the Church. D) He wants her to poison the King at dinner the next night. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He wants her to stop sleeping with the King. 21. Where is Scene 1 taking place? A) At a pool. B) Outside the palace gates. C) In the castle. D) In the woods. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Outside the palace gates. 22. What is a recurring subject, theme, idea. Especially in a literary, artistic, or musical work. A) Alitteration. B) Caesura. C) Motifs. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Motifs. 23. What is Ophelia and Hamlet's relationship in the beginning of the paly? A) They're in love. B) They are enemies. C) They have never met. D) They are brother and sister. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They're in love. 24. O thou vile king, give me my father! A) Laertes. B) Hamlet. C) Claudius. D) Hamlet Sr. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Laertes. 25. Why is Ophelia so upset in Scene 1? A) Gertrude refused to hire her as a lady's maid. B) She misses her brother. C) She misses Hamlet. D) Hamlet has visited her & seemed out of his mind. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hamlet has visited her & seemed out of his mind. 26. In Scene 7, what news does Gertrude bring? A) Ophelia has run away. B) Ophelia has drowned. C) Ophelia leapt from the castle walls. D) Ophelia has married Young Fortinbras. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ophelia has drowned. 27. Who is the first character to see the ghost? A) Francisco. B) Hamlet. C) Marcellus. D) Ophelia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Marcellus. 28. Which of the following is NOT something that Hamlet says in his final soliloquy? A) He regrets hurting Ophelia. B) He resolves to get vengeance. C) He compares himself to Fortinbras. D) He uses Fortinbras as motivation to action. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He regrets hurting Ophelia. 29. King Claudius' aside while trying to pray reveals A) The guilt of not praying more often. B) The heavy guilt of his conscience. C) The guilt of what to do with Hamlet. D) The guilt of keeping the truth from Gertrude. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The heavy guilt of his conscience. 30. Where was Dracula set? A) Denmark. B) Transylvania. C) Scotland. D) Barcelona. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Transylvania. 31. What length of time elapses between the King's death and the Queen remarriage? A) Less than 2 months. B) One year. C) 3 years. D) A decade. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Less than 2 months. 32. Why does the gravedigger believe England is a good place for Hamlet? A) Everyone is crazy in England!. B) There are many people in England to treat Hamlet's craziness. C) Hamlet will be safe from Claudius in England. D) Hamlet has always loved England. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Everyone is crazy in England!. 33. Who kills Hamlet? A) Laertes. B) Fortinbras. C) Claudius. D) Horatio. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Laertes. 34. What literary term best describes the quote, "Words, words, words!" ? A) Alliteration. B) Consonance. C) Assonance. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Repetition. 35. Where does Laertes attend college? A) England. B) France. C) Germany. D) Denmark. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) France. 36. Why does Laertes burst into the King's court room in Scene 5? A) He wants to take Ophelia back home with him. B) He wants to stop Claudius from killing Hamlet, his friend. C) He wants revenge for his father's death. D) There's an angry mob outside trying to kill the King. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He wants revenge for his father's death. 37. We agreed to spy on Hamlet A) Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. B) Horatio. C) Caludius. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. 38. What is the order of deaths in Act V? A) Claudius, Gertrude, Horatio, Laertes. B) Ophelia, Laertes, Hamlet, Claudius. C) Claudius, Gertrude, Hamlet, Laertes. D) Gertrude, Claudius, Laertes, Hamlet. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Gertrude, Claudius, Laertes, Hamlet. 39. What message does Act I convey about Claudius? A) Claudius is a strong, dependable king. B) Claudius is a loving man. C) Claudius is a drunk and unreliable. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Claudius is a drunk and unreliable. 40. Where was Lucy found when found sleepwalking? A) Graveyard. B) Castle. C) On a ship. D) Seaside. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Graveyard. 41. What does Hamlet accuse Rosencrantz and Guildenstern of? A) All of these. B) Being a sponge. C) Trying to find out his secrets. D) Playing him like an instrument. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) All of these. 42. Why did King Claudius kill King Hamlet? A) He's crazy. B) The brothers got into a fight. C) Just did not like him. D) King Hamlet was in his way. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) King Hamlet was in his way. 43. How many characters die during the course of the play? A) Two. B) Five. C) Eight. D) Seven. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Eight. 44. Hamlet askes the actor to change the play. The new play will show ..... A) The poisoning of a king. B) Be about Romeo and Juliet. C) A castle haunted by a ghost. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The poisoning of a king. 45. One woe doth tread upon another's heel, so fast they follow.-Your sister's drown'd, Laertes A) Hamlet. B) Rosencrantz. C) Claudius. D) Gertrude. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Gertrude. 46. Polonius sends Reynaldo on a very specific mission. What is he to do in Paris? A) To spy on Claudius. B) To spy on Ophelia. C) To spy on Laertes. D) To spy on Hamlet. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To spy on Laertes. 47. The village men were very ..... to hear that their boat sank in the storm. A) Upset. B) Uneasy. C) Doubt. D) Appearance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Doubt. 48. Hamlet:The air bites shrewdly. The personification in the dialogue above most likely means? A) The sun is shining. B) It is cold. C) There is frost bite. D) The wind is blowing. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It is cold. 49. Who serves as referee at the fencing match? A) Osric. B) Claudius. C) Horatio. D) Reynaldo. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Osric. 50. Hamlet is sent to England under what pretenses? A) Gertrude has a summer home there. B) It is for his health. C) He is to marry the princess. D) He is making a political stop before going back to school. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) He is making a political stop before going back to school. 51. In the first scene, what drives the Ghost away? A) The sound of cannons. B) The sound of trumpets. C) Marcellus throwing his partisan. D) A rooster crowing at the break of dawn. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A rooster crowing at the break of dawn. 52. How does the duel between Hamlet and Laertes end? A) They stop fighting and leave. B) They scream and throw their swords on the ground. C) Hamlet falls first. D) Hamlet and Laerte are both wounded by the poisoned sword. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hamlet and Laerte are both wounded by the poisoned sword. 53. Do liars lie is an example of what? A) Rhetorical Question. B) Analogy. C) Satire. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhetorical Question. 54. Yorick's skull makes Hamlet think of: A) Life and death. B) Comedy. C) Tragedy. D) His own failures. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Life and death. 55. Gertrude tells Claudius she thinks Hamlet's changed behaviour is because: A) Hamlet suspects them of murdering his father. B) His unrequited love of Ophelia. C) Of his father's death and their hasty marriage. D) His desire to return to Wittenberg. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Of his father's death and their hasty marriage. 56. Hamlet was a prince in ..... A) Denmark. B) England. C) Italy. D) Scotland. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Denmark. 57. Gertrude is ..... A) Hamlet's girlfriend. B) Hamlet's sister. C) Hamlet. D) Hamlet's mom. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hamlet's mom. 58. Who is Queen Gertrude, Hamlet's mom, getting married to? A) Her Brother in law Claudius. B) Her Friend Claudius. C) Her Cousin Claudius. D) Her personal guard Claudius. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Her Brother in law Claudius. 59. When the ghost of King Hamlet appears, what does he do? A) He walks closer to the men. B) He acts the same way he always have; trying to say something. C) He motions for Hamlet to follow him. D) He says that something is going to happen. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He motions for Hamlet to follow him. 60. How do the people of Denmark think King Hamlet died? A) Scorpion sting. B) Serpent (snake) bite. C) Aneurysm (stroke). D) Poison. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Serpent (snake) bite. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGenres QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesHamlet Quiz 1Hamlet Quiz 2Hamlet Quiz 3Hamlet Quiz 4Hamlet Quiz 5Hamlet Quiz 6Hamlet Quiz 7Hamlet Quiz 8 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books