This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Genres > Drama > Hamlet – Quiz 6 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Hamlet Quiz 6 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Who kills Gertrude? A) Hamlet. B) Claudius. C) Laertes. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Claudius. 2. When Ophelia saw Hamlet, what was his appearance like? A) He was all disheveled and looked like he'd seen a ghost. B) Nice and tidy. C) He was ready for battle. D) He looked like a Prince. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He was all disheveled and looked like he'd seen a ghost. 3. What does Claudius say about Hamlet's griefover his father's death? A) It's fake. B) It's unmanly. C) It's justified. D) It makes his mother sad too. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It's unmanly. 4. What does Polonius tell his daughter? A) That she mustn't see Hamlet again. B) That she mustn't see Rosencrantz again. C) That she must become a nun. D) That she must leave the royal palace. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) That she mustn't see Hamlet again. 5. A calculating, ambitious politician, adept at manipulating others for his own ends and willing to execute, assassinate, or murder to stay in power. A) Gertrude. B) Claudius. C) Fortinbras. D) Hamlet Senior. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Claudius. 6. In Act I why are there guards 24/7, weapons being made, and ships being built? A) Denmark is a medieval kingdom. B) Fortinbras is thought to attack. C) Someone is killing kings!. D) They fear being in war with Polan. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fortinbras is thought to attack. 7. Who kills the King of Norway? A) Fortinbras. B) Hamlet. C) Claudius. D) The late King Hamlet. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The late King Hamlet. 8. The play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king. A) Ophelia. B) Hamlet. C) Claudius. D) Horatio. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hamlet. 9. Who does Hamlet say, "The play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king." to? A) First player. B) Hamlet. C) Rosencrantz. D) Guildenstern. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hamlet. 10. Who cautions Hamlet against the fencing match? A) Horatio. B) Polonius. C) Gertrude. D) Laertes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Horatio. 11. Hamlet came to Ophelia in what state? A) An unbuttoned shirt and dirty socks. B) In royal clothes, to take her out. C) Without a shirt, to seduce her. D) Extremely happy and in love. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) An unbuttoned shirt and dirty socks. 12. Hamlet says that this person is a "sponge" who is just being used to absorb information andrewards and will soon be discarded. A) Polonius. B) Rosencrantz. C) Laertes. D) Ophelia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rosencrantz. 13. The purpose of the scene where Fortinbras enters with an army heading to Poland is to reveal: A) A subplot. B) Hamlet is a soldier after all. C) Hamlet is a man of inaction. D) Both Hamlet and Fortinbras are alike in intellectual qualities. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hamlet is a man of inaction. 14. According to Hamlet, who is to blame for turning men into monsters? A) Satan. B) Other men. C) Women. D) God. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Women. 15. What does Polonius think is wrong with Prince Hamlet? A) Hamlet is depressed that he can't go back to school. B) Hamlet is heartbroken at the loss of his father. C) Hamlet is lovesick for Ophelia. D) Hamlet is jealous that he is not king. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hamlet is lovesick for Ophelia. 16. Where must Laertes go? A) Italy. B) Germany. C) Poland. D) France. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) France. 17. After speaking with Hamlet, Ophelia's speech reveals her emotions. She is A) Happy about what she had thought Hamlet was, but what he never was. B) Sad about what Hamlet had been, but is no more. C) Angry about what Ophelia wishes Hamlet were. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sad about what Hamlet had been, but is no more. 18. According to the article on Elizabethan England, Shakespeare was alive during a time when London when "cultural influences breathed new life." What was this time period called? A) Shakespearean Days. B) Renaissance. C) Postmodernism. D) Modernism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Renaissance. 19. Stage manager that moved to Australia A) Emma. B) Brandon. C) Janet. D) Gretchen. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Janet. 20. What does Hamlet encounter on his way to England? A) Horatio. B) Ophelia. C) Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. D) Fortinbras and his army. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Fortinbras and his army. 21. Who said it: "Be careful of the danger of desire." A) Laertes. B) Polonius. C) Ophelia. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Laertes. 22. Who says "I doubt it is no other but the main ..... his father's death and our o'erhasty marriage" ? A) Hamlet. B) Gertrude. C) Ophelia. D) Claudius. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gertrude. 23. During the scene where Hamlet meets alone with his mother before killing Polonius, who sees the Ghost? A) Hamlet. B) Gertrude. C) Both Hamlet and Gertrude. D) Neither Hamlet nor Gertrude. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hamlet. 24. While discussing the gravedigger's actions, Hamlet says to Horatio, " ..... its lower jaw knocked off and thwacked on the noggin with a shovel." Thwacked is an example of: A) Alliteration. B) Simile. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia. 25. Polonius instructs Reynaldo in the art of ..... A) Flowery language. B) Spying. C) Flower arranging. D) Lying. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Spying. 26. What is Emma's job in the play? A) She is the stage manager. B) She is an actor. C) She is the director. D) She is the set designer. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) She is the stage manager. 27. Who is in love with Hamlet? A) Gertrude. B) Ophelia. C) Juliet. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ophelia. 28. Who does Hamlet kill in Gertrude's chamber? A) Gertrude. B) Ophelia. C) Polonius. D) Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Polonius. 29. Hamlet agrees to a fencing match with Laertes because A) King Claudius won't let Hamlet say no. B) Hamlet has an uneasy feeling. C) Hamlet knows that someday he will die, even if he doesn't fight now. D) Hamlet feels prepared to match Laertes' skill. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hamlet knows that someday he will die, even if he doesn't fight now. 30. According to Polonius, why is Hamlet "mad? " A) His father's death. B) His unrequited love for Ophelia. C) He misses school. D) His mother's marriage. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) His unrequited love for Ophelia. 31. In Act I, the Ghost appears to Hamlet in order to ..... A) Exact a promise of revenge from Hamlet. B) Warn Hamlet of the horrors of the afterlife. C) Tell Hamlet the truth about his birth. D) Say goodbye to him. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Exact a promise of revenge from Hamlet. 32. All of the following are characters we have read about in Hamlet Act 1 scene 1 so far EXCEPT: A) Horatio. B) Ghost. C) Barnardo. D) Hamlet. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hamlet. 33. What is Claudius's plan at the end of Act 4? A) He will drown Hamlet. B) Laertes will kill Hamlet while he is sleeping. C) To let Hamlet ruin himself. D) Laertes will kill Hamlet in a duel. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Laertes will kill Hamlet in a duel. 34. It's appropriate that Fortinbras speaks the last line of the play because A) He has returned victorious from Poland. B) Only he knew the true chain of events. C) He will likely succeed to the throne of Denmark. D) He admires Hamlet more than anyone else in the play. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He will likely succeed to the throne of Denmark. 35. But I am pigeon-liver'd and lack gall to make oppression bitter-or ere this I should have fatted all the region kites with this slave's offal! Bloody, bawdy villain! A) Claudius. B) Horatio. C) Hamlet. D) Fortinbras. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hamlet. 36. What does Laertes "confess" to Hamlet just before his death? A) That he killed Ophelia. B) That he conspired with the King to murder Hamlet. C) That he never would have allowed Hamlet to marry Ophelia. D) That he helped Fortinbras murder Hamlet. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) That he conspired with the King to murder Hamlet. 37. Who kills Polonius? A) Laertes. B) Hamlet. C) Claudius. D) Horatio. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hamlet. 38. "Doubt thou the stars are fire, doubt that the sun doth move, doubt truth to be a liar, but never doubt I love, " was said by who? A) Polonius. B) Marcellus. C) Horatio. D) Ophelia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Polonius. 39. Who is Voltimand? A) Hamlet's cousin. B) Assassin in the service of Fortinbras. C) Ambassador to the King of Denmark from the King of Norway. D) Ambassador to the King of Norway from the King of Denmark. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ambassador to the King of Norway from the King of Denmark. 40. Ophelia runs to Polonius in distress because ..... A) Laertes came home. B) Hamlet is acting crazy. C) She can't find her cell phone. D) Hamlet is angry. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hamlet is acting crazy. 41. A funeral procession approaches, and Hamlet sees the king, queen, and Laertes. Then, he asks who has died ....., hysterical with grief, leaps into the grave. A) The Queen. B) Claudius. C) Hamlet. D) Laertes. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Laertes. 42. Who does Polonius want Reynaldo to spy on specifically? A) Hamlet. B) Ophelia. C) Guildenstern. D) Laertes. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Laertes. 43. Laertes plans to kill Hamlet by ..... and has a backup plan by using ..... A) Chocking him, a dagger. B) Poisoning his drink, his sword. C) Dueling, poison. D) Ambushing him, a gun. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dueling, poison. 44. What are some ways Shakespeare gets his message across? A) Allusion. B) Soliloquy. C) Monologue. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 45. Claudius reveals that he has planned for A) An army to kill Fortinbras. B) An army to kill Laertes. C) The king of England to kill Hamlet. D) Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to execute Hamlet. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The king of England to kill Hamlet. 46. Who is the character left living at the end of the play? A) Claudius. B) Hamlet. C) Gertrude. D) Horatio. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Horatio. 47. What does the ghost want Hamlet to do? A) Marry Ophelia. B) Leave Denmark. C) Make him a sanwich. D) Avenge his death. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Avenge his death. 48. After learning of Polonius's murder, he turns to whom for advice on public relations? A) His fortune teller. B) His beloved son, Hamlet. C) His beloved wife, Gertrude. D) His wisest friends. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) His wisest friends. 49. What do Claudius and Gertrude want Hamlet to do? A) Marry Ophelia. B) Become king. C) Go back to school. D) Stay close to them. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stay close to them. 50. According to rumors, why does it look like the kingdom is preparing for war? A) Fortinbras Jr. might be plotting an attack from Norway. B) Finland is going to declare war. C) King Claudius is going to declare war on Norway. D) Hamlet is going to start a coup. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fortinbras Jr. might be plotting an attack from Norway. 51. In Hamlet's mind Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are: A) Members of Claudius's court. B) Identical twins. C) Slimy sellouts. D) Actor's in Hamlet's play. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Slimy sellouts. 52. '' I have found the very cause of Hamlet's lunacy." A) Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. B) Polonius. C) Ophelia. D) Gertrude. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Polonius. 53. What does Hamlet want the players to do? A) Leave the Danish court. B) Put on a play for the king and queen. C) Only perform comedies. D) Not have any women in the audience. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Put on a play for the king and queen. 54. In Scene 1, Hamlet visits Ophelia "with his doublet all unbraced, / No hat upon his head" to ..... A) Convince her of his madness. B) Tell her about the ghost of his father. C) Ask her how she feels about him. D) Declare his love for her. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Convince her of his madness. 55. Where is Laertes going in Scene 3? A) To Norway to confront Fortinbras. B) To Sweden to fight in the Danish-Swedish war. C) To France as a diplomat for the King. D) To Finland for entertainment. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To France as a diplomat for the King. 56. Theater Design King A) Lulu. B) Abby. C) Stanley. D) Emma. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stanley. 57. What will Hamlet determine during the play? A) If the ghost is an evil spirit or actually his father. B) If his mother murdered his father. C) If Polonius is guilty. D) If Ophelia really loves him. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) If the ghost is an evil spirit or actually his father. 58. Hamlet is written by A) Edgar Allan Poe. B) Nancy Meyers. C) William Shakespeare. D) Dr. Seus. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) William Shakespeare. 59. Who did Gertrude say, "all that lives must die" to? A) Claudius. B) Horatio. C) Polonius. D) Hamlet. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hamlet. 60. Why has Laertes returned from France? A) To end things with Ophelia. B) To kill Horatio. C) To travel with Hamlet to England. D) To get revenge for Polonius's death. 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