This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Genres > Drama > Hamlet – Quiz 2 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Hamlet Quiz 2 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. After the death of her father, Ophelia only communicates through ..... A) Blinking. B) Sign language. C) Songs. D) Writing. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Songs. 2. Act 3 Scene 4:Why does Polonius hide behind the arras (curtains)? A) To eavesdrop on the conversation between Hamlet and the Queen. B) To scare Hamlet while he talks to the Queen. C) Because Polonius is scared of Hamlet. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To eavesdrop on the conversation between Hamlet and the Queen. 3. The Ghost's reference to the "sulf'rous and tormenting flames" reveals that: A) Claudius will suffer the same fate. B) The Danish view the afterlife as eternal torment. C) He must atone for sins committed in his life. D) He is an emissary from the devil. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He must atone for sins committed in his life. 4. What does "dirge" mean? A) Joyous celebration. B) Somber grief. C) A big boat. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Somber grief. 5. King Claudius thinks that A) Hamlet is really lovesick, as Polonius says. B) Hamlet is surely mad. C) Hamlet might be dangerous. D) Queen Gertrude should send Hamlet to England. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hamlet might be dangerous. 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? A) Claudius. B) Gertrude. C) Ophelia. D) Polonius. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ophelia. 7. In a letter to Horatio, Hamlet claims to have been captured by ..... A) Fortinbras. B) Rosencrantz & Guildenstern. C) Claudius. D) Pirates. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pirates. 8. What is Laertes mean when he says "What ceremony else" to the priest? A) Ophelia should have been married. B) The funeral prayer was not long enough. C) The coffin should be lowered later. D) The priest should give Ophelia last rites. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The priest should give Ophelia last rites. 9. I lov'd Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of love, make up my sum! A) Hamlet. B) Gertrude. C) Guildenstern. D) Laertes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hamlet. 10. Who wants his father's land back? A) Claudius. B) Laertes. C) Fortinbras. D) Prince Hamlet. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fortinbras. 11. Out of the following, what is indicated as afavorite pastime of Claudius? A) Drinking alcohol and feasting. B) Watching plays. C) Fencing. D) Praying. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Drinking alcohol and feasting. 12. After finding out Hamlet is being returned to Elsinore, what is the plan to end his life? A) Beheading. B) Banishment. C) Sword fight. D) Starvation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sword fight. 13. Who says, "Not a mouse stirring." ? A) Francisco. B) Horatio. C) Hamlet. D) Mercellus. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Francisco. 14. Who says "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark" ? A) Hamlet. B) Marcellus. C) The ghost. D) Horatio. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Marcellus. 15. Gertrude informs Claudius that Ophelia has ..... A) Jumped over the castle walls to her death. B) Stabbed herself in the heart with a dagger. C) Fallen into a pond and drowned. D) Purposefully letting venomous snakes bite her. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fallen into a pond and drowned. 16. What can we notice in the third act? A) New play. B) Dead play. C) Play-within-the-play. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Play-within-the-play. 17. What does Hamlet get excited about near the end of Act 2? A) The actors. B) The party. C) Travelling to France. D) The wedding. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The actors. 18. Who says, "brevity is the soul of wit ..... "? A) Hamlet. B) Polonius. C) Ophelia. D) King Claudius. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Polonius. 19. Whose skull does Hamlet discover in the churchyard? A) Ophelia's. B) His father's. C) The former court jester's. D) Reynaldo's. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The former court jester's. 20. What news does Voltimand bring? A) The King of Norway has stopped Prince Fortinbras' troops. B) Laertes is in and out of brothels. C) Prince Fortinbas is going to attack. D) Laertes is missing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The King of Norway has stopped Prince Fortinbras' troops. 21. Who is Hamlet's Girlfriend? A) Ophelia. B) Gertrude. C) Laertes. D) Gail. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ophelia. 22. In the soliloquy "To be or not to be" what alternative is introduced in lines 5-10? A) To suffer. B) To die. C) To fight. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To die. 23. Why won't the priest give Ophelia all her burial rights? A) She has taken her own life. B) The queen wouldn't allow it. C) She was unwed. D) The funeral was too rushed. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) She has taken her own life. 24. What did Hamlet ask the English king to do by changing Claudius's letter? A) Give him another ship. B) Kill Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. C) Forgive him. D) Send him a letter. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Kill Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. 25. What does Hamlet mean when he says, "The play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king." ? A) The play is Hamlet's evidence. B) How Hamlet will prove the guilt of the king. C) How Hamlet will know if the ghost is good. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 26. What does Hamlet realize when he says, "To die, to sleep, to sleep, perchance to dream; aye, there's the rub, "? A) Death is his best option. B) His family would miss him if he died. C) That's the trick of death. D) Death is cowardly. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) That's the trick of death. 27. Who calls Hamlet unmanly? A) Queen. B) King. C) Laertes. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) King. 28. Who is Hamlet's best friend? A) Bernardo. B) Francisco. C) Marcellus. D) Horatio. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Horatio. 29. Angrily plays Ophelia instead of Hamlet A) Lulu. B) Wick. C) Emma. D) Josh. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lulu. 30. With Hamlet's added content to the play, what is Hamlet hoping will happen? A) Ophelia will start crying and prove her love to Hamlet. B) Gertrude will wake up from her nap. C) Claudius will act visibly uncomfortable and prove he's guilty. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Claudius will act visibly uncomfortable and prove he's guilty. 31. Who killed Laertes? A) Ophelia. B) Hamlet. C) Gertrude. D) Claudius. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hamlet. 32. What situation is represented by the play? A) King Hamlet's death. B) Othello's death. C) Ophelia' death. D) King Laertes' death. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) King Hamlet's death. 33. Claudius's final plan to get rid of Hamlet relies on what? A) Poison on a foil. B) Poison in a cup. C) Poison in a cup and poison on a foil. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Poison in a cup and poison on a foil. 34. Who is the last person to die? A) Horatio. B) Gertrude. C) Claudius. D) Hamlet. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hamlet. 35. "The serpent that did sting thy father's life now wears his crown, " was said by who? A) Horatio. B) The Ghost. C) Hamlet. D) Polonius. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Ghost. 36. Who wants to kill Hamlet? A) Claudius. B) Claudius and Laertes. C) Laertes. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Claudius and Laertes. 37. Why do Polonius and Ophelia think Hamlet has gone mad? A) He is upset that his mother, Gertrude, scolded him in court. B) Laertes has left for France and Hamlet is all alone. C) He was in love with Ophelia and she stopped talking to him. D) Claudius struck him across the face. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He was in love with Ophelia and she stopped talking to him. 38. Who said "to know a man well were to know himself? " A) Hamlet. B) Laertes. C) Marcellus. D) Claudius. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hamlet. 39. I jumped up and left the play thus proclaiming my guilt A) Hamlet. B) Laertes. C) Claudius. D) Ophelia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Claudius. 40. Horatio joins the guards out on duty because: A) His side job in the castle is to assign guard duty for the night shifts. B) He is an known enemy of Norway. C) They believe a ghost will speak to an educated man. D) The Queen asked him to. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They believe a ghost will speak to an educated man. 41. What reason do Rosencrantz and Guildenstern give Hamlet for their arrival to Denmark? A) They are preventing him from going to school. B) They are just visiting him. C) They want to take him to a play. D) They want to invite him to a party. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They are just visiting him. 42. Who did Hamlet think Polonius was when he stabbed him through the curtain? A) He knew it was Polonius. B) He thought it was Claudius. C) He thought it was one of the guards. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He thought it was Claudius. 43. When Laertes' see his sister's state and hears about his father's murder he: A) Calmly asks the King to explain. B) Insults Gertrude. C) Demands answers from Claudius. D) Seeks Horatio's guidance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Demands answers from Claudius. 44. "Am I not I' the right, old Jephthah? " A) Polonius. B) Gertrude. C) Horatio. D) Hamlet. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hamlet. 45. Who is the only one who believes Ophelia to be the cause of Hamlet's madness? A) Claudius. B) Polonius. C) Ophelia. D) Gertrude. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Polonius. 46. Ophelia uses these buds of nature as symbols for other characters. A) Humors. B) Flowers. C) Gems. D) Elements. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Flowers. 47. Besides to be demanded of a sponge is an example of what? A) Alliteration. B) Similie. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 48. Who remarries and betrays their original spouse? A) Claudius. B) Horatio. C) Polonius. D) Gertrude. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Gertrude. 49. What does the king say to stop Hamlet's play? A) Light. B) A sword. C) Help. D) Polonius. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Light. 50. What does Hamlet call Denmark and the whole world? A) Paradise. B) The only place to live. C) Heaven. D) Prison. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Prison. 51. In his first appearance onstage, Hamlet is wearing ..... A) The crown. B) A jester's costume. C) Royal robes. D) His mourning clothes. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) His mourning clothes. 52. Hamlet's real cause for rage is that A) He cannot do anything about his own feelings. B) He has done nothing to revenge his father's killing. C) He feels more and more gloomy. D) Actors pretend to show their feelings. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He has done nothing to revenge his father's killing. 53. What is a literary device? A) A technique used by a writer to convey a message. B) The devious and illegal composition of a text. C) The meaning and connotation of words in a play. D) Interpreting a text. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A technique used by a writer to convey a message. 54. Claudius sends two messengers, Cornelius and Voltemand, to deliver a message to the ruler of which country? A) Denmark. B) Norway. C) Finland. D) Spain. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Norway. 55. The most famous line of the play is A) "What's in a name ". B) "Be strong my prince.". C) Romeo, Romeo where for art thou Romeo? ". D) "To be or not to be, that is the question.". Show Answer Correct Answer: D) "To be or not to be, that is the question.". 56. Finish the quote: "one may smile, and smile and be a .....? " A) Hero. B) King. C) Villain. D) Murderer. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Villain. 57. At the end of scene iii, Ophelia agrees to obey Polonius' wish. What will she do? A) She will marry Fortinbras. B) She will go into a convent for a year. C) She will stay away from Hamlet and reject his affections. D) She will immediately return to school. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) She will stay away from Hamlet and reject his affections. 58. What do Claudius's words, "Do it, England, " mean? A) "Kill Hamlet". B) "Come help me". C) "Find out the cause of Hamlet's madness". D) "Attack Norway". Show Answer Correct Answer: A) "Kill Hamlet". 59. Hamlet dies from: A) Drowning. B) Suicide. C) Poison on a sword. D) Drinking poison. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Poison on a sword. 60. What is not a reason that Claudius givesin his soliloquy for why he killed King Hamlet? A) He was afraid that King Hamlet would killhim. B) He was ambitious. C) He wanted to be with Gertrude. D) He wanted the royal crown. He wanted the royal crown. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He was afraid that King Hamlet would killhim. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGenres QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesHamlet Quiz 1Hamlet Quiz 3Hamlet Quiz 4Hamlet Quiz 5Hamlet Quiz 6Hamlet Quiz 7Hamlet Quiz 8Hamlet Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books