This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Genres > Drama > Hamlet – Quiz 8 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Hamlet Quiz 8 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Hamlet is most upset about the following: A) His father's recent death. B) His girlfriend's odd behavior. C) His friends have left him in Denmark. D) His mother's recent marriage. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) His mother's recent marriage. 2. Who rules Denmark at the end? A) Fortinbras. B) Horation. C) Hamlet. D) The Ambassador to England. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fortinbras. 3. Claudius plans to kill Hamlet by ..... A) Having Laertes challenge him with a poison-tipped sword. B) Poisoning him at a family dinner. C) Cutting off his food supply, when he's been sent away. D) Hiring soldiers to chase him down and kill him while he's on the run. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Having Laertes challenge him with a poison-tipped sword. 4. Who is alive at the end of the play? A) Yorick. B) Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. C) Horatio. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Horatio. 5. How are Gertrude and Young Hamlet related? A) Gertrude is Hamlet's daughter. B) Gertrude is Hamlet's mother. C) Gertrude is Hamlet's friend. D) Gertrude is Hamlet's sister. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gertrude is Hamlet's mother. 6. How does Gertrude die? A) Poison on a sword. B) Poison in the ear. C) Poison in a cup. D) She doesn't die. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Poison in a cup. 7. What literary device uses hints or clues to suggest what will happen next? A) Flashback. B) Irony. C) Foreshadowing. D) Suspense. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Foreshadowing. 8. "There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so, " was said by who? A) Horatio. B) Polonius. C) Hamlet. D) Gertrude. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hamlet. 9. What is Hamlet's intention in confronting his mother and speaking "daggers" to her? A) To let her know how much his father suffered. B) To convince her he is not mad. C) To make her agree to leave Claudius. D) To force her to admit her treachery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To force her to admit her treachery. 10. Claudius is not the powerful warrior ..... was. A) Victor. B) Old Hamlet. C) Old Fortinbras. D) Old Norway. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Old Hamlet. 11. Why does Hamlet call women dishonest? A) Because they only care about money. B) Because they wear make-up and deceive men. C) Because he does not trust his mother. D) Because he believes that women are inferior to men. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Because they wear make-up and deceive men. 12. How are Laertes and Polonius related? A) They are not related; Laertes is Polonius's servant. B) Laertes is Polonius's brother. C) Laertes is Polonius's son. D) Laertes is Polonius's father. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Laertes is Polonius's son. 13. What is Claudius doing when Hamlet walks by and sees him? A) Praying. B) Writing a letter. C) Plotting to kill Hamlet. D) Arguing with Gertrude. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Praying. 14. Hamlet kills ..... A) Horacio. B) Polonium. C) Ophelia. D) The clown. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Polonium. 15. Which of the following is NOT a theme in Hamlet thus far? A) Jealousy. B) Privacy. C) Gender roles and stereotypes. D) Revenge. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Jealousy. 16. Why is Hamlet staging the play within a play? A) He needs to make sure that Claudius is guilty. B) He is bored and depressed. C) He enjoys acting. D) He hopes to entertain his mother. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He needs to make sure that Claudius is guilty. 17. Who defined the tragic hero originally? A) Shakespeare. B) Sophocles. C) Seneca. D) Chaucer. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sophocles. 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." A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) Metonym. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 19. In Scene 1, what does Claudius ask Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to do? A) Pay the players for the performance. B) Deliver a letter to Young Fortinbras. C) Find Polonius and bring his body to the chapel. D) Arrest Horatio for plotting a murder with Hamlet. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Find Polonius and bring his body to the chapel. 20. Rosencrantz and Guidenstern: A) Return to Denmark. B) Are set free by the King of England. C) Are killed by the King of England. D) Commit suicide. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Are killed by the King of England. 21. Why does Horatio warn Prince Hamlet to NOT follow the Ghost? A) The Ghost may lead Hamlet to harm, even death!. B) The Ghost may lead Hamlet to leave Elsinore castle!. C) The Ghost is really Claudius playing a trick!. D) The Ghost cannot talk, so why even follow it? !. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Ghost may lead Hamlet to harm, even death!. 22. After Hamlet kills Polonius, the queen immediately tells Claudius. This shows that she A) No longer trusts Claudius. B) Is anxious that Hamlet might harm her next. C) Maintains her greater allegiance to Claudius. D) Knows that Hamlet will need help burying the body. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Maintains her greater allegiance to Claudius. 23. Laertes is willing to kill Hamlet ..... A) During his sister's funeral. B) Within plain sight. C) In a church. D) Only if he is found guilty. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) In a church. 24. What happens at Ophelia's funeral? A) Laertes challenges Hamlet to a fencing duel over the grave. B) Hamlet & Laertes fist fight in her grave. C) The king & queen comfort Hamlet, overcome with grief. D) Ophelia's ghost visits them & warns of impending doom. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hamlet & Laertes fist fight in her grave. 25. Where is Hamlet in school? A) Fortinbras. B) Wittenburg. C) France. D) Elsinore. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Wittenburg. 26. What does Horatio receive from Hamlet? A) Money. B) A sword. C) A letter. D) A phone call. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A letter. 27. The Ghost appears when Hamlet is talking to Gertrude to A) Make Hamlet appear even more insane. B) Mitigate Hamlet's cruel treatment of his mother. C) Symbolize Hamlet's guilt over the killing of Polonius. D) Warn Hamlet that Claudius is going to try and kill him. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mitigate Hamlet's cruel treatment of his mother. 28. What country was the play set in? A) Kenya. B) Denmark. C) Transylvania. D) England. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Denmark. 29. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are friends of Hamlet who have been tasked with what by Claudius? A) To spy on Hamlet. B) To flip a coin 92 times. C) To guard the castle. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To spy on Hamlet. 30. Why is Claudius really sending Hamlet to England? A) He is supposed to marry a princess. B) He is to die. C) He is supposed to get well. D) He is to collect money. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He is to die. 31. The Ghost speaks to A) Horatio. B) Hamlet. C) Claudius. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hamlet. 32. How does Ophelia die? A) Poison. B) Fencing. C) Hanging. D) Drowning. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Drowning. 33. For whose death does Laertes seek revenge? A) King Hamlet. B) Polonius. C) Claudius. D) Ophelia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Polonius. 34. Who says "The drink, the drink! I am poisoned!" A) Claudius. B) Gertrude. C) Laertes. D) Hamlet. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gertrude. 35. I told Ophelia to go to a nunnery A) Gertrude. B) Hamlet. C) Laertes. D) Claudius. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hamlet. 36. Actor playing Hamlet in Shakespeare's time A) Emma. B) Wick. C) Richard Burbage. D) Brandon. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Richard Burbage. 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.) A) Symbolism. B) Theme. C) Lesson. D) Fortune. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Theme. 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? A) Ophelia. B) The actors. C) Queen Gertrude. D) King Claudius. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) King Claudius. 39. King Claudius' soliloquy while trying to pray reveals A) The guilt of keeping the truth from Gertrude. B) The guilt of what to do with Hamlet. C) The heavy guilt of his conscience. D) His pride at deceiving Hamlet. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The heavy guilt of his conscience. 40. What do Laertes and Polonius warn Ophelia of in Act I? A) Hamlet may not have the best of intentions with her. B) Hamlet has another girlfriend. C) Claudius and Gertrude promised Norway Hamlet would marry someone from there. D) Hamlet has left. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hamlet may not have the best of intentions with her. 41. When Claudius shouts for "lights" before "The Mousetrap" is over, Hamlet is convinced: A) That the ghost was lying to the trick him. B) That Claudius is guilty of his father's murder. C) That Claudius is really mad. D) That he will never be able to determine Claudius' guilt. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) That Claudius is guilty of his father's murder. 42. O, from this time forth, my thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth. A) Hamlet. B) Ophelia. C) Claudius. D) Horatio. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hamlet. 43. Why did Ophelia descend into madness A) The death of hamlet. B) Loss of her brother. C) Loss of her father and rejection off hamlet. D) She has too many emotions. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Loss of her father and rejection off hamlet. 44. Who says, "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy." ? A) Hamlet. B) Guildenstern. C) Mercellus. D) Rosencrantz. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hamlet. 45. What's the best way to characterize thelanguage Hamlet uses towards Ophelia while they arepreparing to watch the play? A) Vulgar. B) Apologetic. C) Vengeful. D) Romantic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Vulgar. 46. How are Hamlet and Fortinbras alike? A) They both are in love with Ophelia. B) They both hate Claudius for marrying Gertrude. C) They both have fathers that they wish to avenge. D) They are both Danish princes. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They both have fathers that they wish to avenge. 47. Ophelia felt uneasy when Hamlet visited her because A) Hamlet spoke sharply to her. B) Hamlet was in a foul mood. C) She doubted Hamlet's love. D) Hamlet's appearance and behavior were strange. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hamlet's appearance and behavior were strange. 48. A major difference between Laertes and Hamlet is that Laertes A) Knows exactly whom is to blame for his father's murder. B) Loved his father more than Hamlet loved his. C) Finds solace for his grief in action. D) Has more military experience. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Finds solace for his grief in action. 49. Who does the ghost ask for (the second time he appears to the play)? A) Bernardo. B) Horatio. C) Hamlet. D) Marcellus. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hamlet. 50. Who is "a rat, a rat'? A) Polonius. B) Claudius. C) Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. D) Horatio. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Polonius. 51. This character gives the first soliloquy in the play: A) Bernardo. B) Queen Gertrude. C) Hamlet. D) The Ghost. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hamlet. 52. Act II, in the structure of tragedy pattern, is called the: A) Act of Resolution. B) Act of Exposition. C) Act of Consequence. D) Act of Growth. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Act of Growth. 53. Who is the King of Denmark when the play begins? A) Polonius. B) Laertes. C) Claudius. D) Hamlet. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Claudius. 54. Hamlet responds to whom as trying to play him like a flute? A) Laertes and Polonius. B) Rosencrantz and Guidenstern. C) Marcellus and Reynaldo. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rosencrantz and Guidenstern. 55. Who wrote Hamlet? A) Me. B) Sowerbrower. C) Shakespeare. D) Shakes. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Shakespeare. 56. Who says, "The king, the king's to blame" ? A) Laertes. B) Hamlet. C) Gertrude. D) Osric. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Laertes. 57. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are prompted to do the king's bidding by their A) Fear for Hamlet's health. B) Loyalty to the king. C) Hope of advancement and reward. D) Desire to leave Denmark. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Loyalty to the king. 58. Hamlet expresses his love of ..... A) Theatre. B) Poetry. C) Literature. D) Ophelia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Theatre. 59. What is Hamlet pretending to do with Polonius? A) Act intelligent. B) Act crazy. C) Show he is in love. D) Show he is angry. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Act crazy. 60. Hamlet says ..... is "not where he eats, but where he is eaten." A) Polonius. B) Laertes. C) Old King Hamlet. D) King Claudius. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Polonius. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGenres QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesHamlet Quiz 1Hamlet Quiz 2Hamlet Quiz 3Hamlet Quiz 4Hamlet Quiz 5Hamlet Quiz 6Hamlet Quiz 7Hamlet Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books