Hamlet Quiz 8 (60 MCQs)

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1. Hamlet is most upset about the following:
2. Who rules Denmark at the end?
3. Claudius plans to kill Hamlet by .....
4. Who is alive at the end of the play?
5. How are Gertrude and Young Hamlet related?
6. How does Gertrude die?
7. What literary device uses hints or clues to suggest what will happen next?
8. "There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so, " was said by who?
9. What is Hamlet's intention in confronting his mother and speaking "daggers" to her?
10. Claudius is not the powerful warrior ..... was.
11. Why does Hamlet call women dishonest?
12. How are Laertes and Polonius related?
13. What is Claudius doing when Hamlet walks by and sees him?
14. Hamlet kills .....
15. Which of the following is NOT a theme in Hamlet thus far?
16. Why is Hamlet staging the play within a play?
17. Who defined the tragic hero originally?
18. The italicized text is an example of which literary device? "Do it, England, / For like the hectic in my blood he rages, / And thou must cure me."
19. In Scene 1, what does Claudius ask Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to do?
20. Rosencrantz and Guidenstern:
21. Why does Horatio warn Prince Hamlet to NOT follow the Ghost?
22. After Hamlet kills Polonius, the queen immediately tells Claudius. This shows that she
23. Laertes is willing to kill Hamlet .....
24. What happens at Ophelia's funeral?
25. Where is Hamlet in school?
26. What does Horatio receive from Hamlet?
27. The Ghost appears when Hamlet is talking to Gertrude to
28. What country was the play set in?
29. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are friends of Hamlet who have been tasked with what by Claudius?
30. Why is Claudius really sending Hamlet to England?
31. The Ghost speaks to
32. How does Ophelia die?
33. For whose death does Laertes seek revenge?
34. Who says "The drink, the drink! I am poisoned!"
35. I told Ophelia to go to a nunnery
36. Actor playing Hamlet in Shakespeare's time
37. What is the central ideas of the play? (It is the main key that will be expressed by the setting, character, plot and dialogue.)
38. Hamlet speaks in riddles & refuses to tell Ros & Guil the location of Polonius's corpse, but he agrees to accompany them to see whom?
39. King Claudius' soliloquy while trying to pray reveals
40. What do Laertes and Polonius warn Ophelia of in Act I?
41. When Claudius shouts for "lights" before "The Mousetrap" is over, Hamlet is convinced:
42. O, from this time forth, my thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth.
43. Why did Ophelia descend into madness
44. Who says, "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy." ?
45. What's the best way to characterize thelanguage Hamlet uses towards Ophelia while they arepreparing to watch the play?
46. How are Hamlet and Fortinbras alike?
47. Ophelia felt uneasy when Hamlet visited her because
48. A major difference between Laertes and Hamlet is that Laertes
49. Who does the ghost ask for (the second time he appears to the play)?
50. Who is "a rat, a rat'?
51. This character gives the first soliloquy in the play:
52. Act II, in the structure of tragedy pattern, is called the:
53. Who is the King of Denmark when the play begins?
54. Hamlet responds to whom as trying to play him like a flute?
55. Who wrote Hamlet?
56. Who says, "The king, the king's to blame" ?
57. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are prompted to do the king's bidding by their
58. Hamlet expresses his love of .....
59. What is Hamlet pretending to do with Polonius?
60. Hamlet says ..... is "not where he eats, but where he is eaten."