Hamlet Quiz 2 (60 MCQs)

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1. After the death of her father, Ophelia only communicates through .....
2. Act 3 Scene 4:Why does Polonius hide behind the arras (curtains)?
3. The Ghost's reference to the "sulf'rous and tormenting flames" reveals that:
4. What does "dirge" mean?
5. King Claudius thinks that
6. "Get thee to a nunnery:why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners? I am myself indifferent honest; but yet I could accuse me of such things that it were better my mother had not borne me. "To whom is Hamlet speaking?
7. In a letter to Horatio, Hamlet claims to have been captured by .....
8. What is Laertes mean when he says "What ceremony else" to the priest?
9. I lov'd Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of love, make up my sum!
10. Who wants his father's land back?
11. Out of the following, what is indicated as afavorite pastime of Claudius?
12. After finding out Hamlet is being returned to Elsinore, what is the plan to end his life?
13. Who says, "Not a mouse stirring." ?
14. Who says "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark" ?
15. Gertrude informs Claudius that Ophelia has .....
16. What can we notice in the third act?
17. What does Hamlet get excited about near the end of Act 2?
18. Who says, "brevity is the soul of wit ..... "?
19. Whose skull does Hamlet discover in the churchyard?
20. What news does Voltimand bring?
21. Who is Hamlet's Girlfriend?
22. In the soliloquy "To be or not to be" what alternative is introduced in lines 5-10?
23. Why won't the priest give Ophelia all her burial rights?
24. What did Hamlet ask the English king to do by changing Claudius's letter?
25. What does Hamlet mean when he says, "The play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king." ?
26. What does Hamlet realize when he says, "To die, to sleep, to sleep, perchance to dream; aye, there's the rub, "?
27. Who calls Hamlet unmanly?
28. Who is Hamlet's best friend?
29. Angrily plays Ophelia instead of Hamlet
30. With Hamlet's added content to the play, what is Hamlet hoping will happen?
31. Who killed Laertes?
32. What situation is represented by the play?
33. Claudius's final plan to get rid of Hamlet relies on what?
34. Who is the last person to die?
35. "The serpent that did sting thy father's life now wears his crown, " was said by who?
36. Who wants to kill Hamlet?
37. Why do Polonius and Ophelia think Hamlet has gone mad?
38. Who said "to know a man well were to know himself? "
39. I jumped up and left the play thus proclaiming my guilt
40. Horatio joins the guards out on duty because:
41. What reason do Rosencrantz and Guildenstern give Hamlet for their arrival to Denmark?
42. Who did Hamlet think Polonius was when he stabbed him through the curtain?
43. When Laertes' see his sister's state and hears about his father's murder he:
44. "Am I not I' the right, old Jephthah? "
45. Who is the only one who believes Ophelia to be the cause of Hamlet's madness?
46. Ophelia uses these buds of nature as symbols for other characters.
47. Besides to be demanded of a sponge is an example of what?
48. Who remarries and betrays their original spouse?
49. What does the king say to stop Hamlet's play?
50. What does Hamlet call Denmark and the whole world?
51. In his first appearance onstage, Hamlet is wearing .....
52. Hamlet's real cause for rage is that
53. What is a literary device?
54. Claudius sends two messengers, Cornelius and Voltemand, to deliver a message to the ruler of which country?
55. The most famous line of the play is
56. Finish the quote: "one may smile, and smile and be a .....? "
57. At the end of scene iii, Ophelia agrees to obey Polonius' wish. What will she do?
58. What do Claudius's words, "Do it, England, " mean?
59. Hamlet dies from:
60. What is not a reason that Claudius givesin his soliloquy for why he killed King Hamlet?