Hamlet Quiz 9 (60 MCQs)

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1. What is the cause of Ophelia's death?
2. What does Polonius think Hamlet's problem is?
3. The Lord Chamberlain ..... Hamlet's advisor
4. In which of the following years was Hamlet most likely written?
5. What had Bernardo seen at a prior watch?
6. What reason does Claudius give for the queen falling down after she is poisoned?
7. The difference between the ghost in Act I of the play and the ghost in Act III, is that
8. Who does Claudius ask to keep an eye on Hamlet?
9. When we meet this character he is depressed and contemplating suicide
10. What play does Brandon choose to put on?
11. In what act do you receive information about the setting and character.
12. Whom did King Hamlet kill (causing that person to lose his lands)?
13. Who becomes king at the end of the story?
14. Claudius is Hamlet's .....
15. What is Hamlet's reaction to the news that his father's ghost has appeared?
16. What is the cause of Ophelia's change in her mental disposition?
17. Laertes poisons a .....
18. How does Hamlet die?
19. Synonym for muddle, disorganize, or disorder.
20. Why does Hamlet ask the player to recite the tale of Priam's slaughter?
21. Hamlet's uncle-Hamlet's step father
22. How did King Hamlet actually die?
23. What does Polonius being "at supper" mean?
24. The Ghost looks a lot like
25. I was Hamlet's closest friend and confidant
26. What is NOT a reason that Claudius hadn't punished Hamlet for killing Polonius?
27. What literary term best describes the quote, "I'll make a ghost of him that hold me back." ?
28. Use the event in this story to judge Hamlet's feelings about plays and actors.
29. What happens to Laertes in Act 5?
30. Name of the royal castle, seat of Denmark
31. How does the ghost say that King Hamlet was murdered?
32. Why does Claudius decide to Kill Hamlet
33. The protagonist of the play is:
34. "It shall be so:Madness in great ones must not unwatch'd go. "Whom is this line spoken about?
35. What does Hamlet tell Claudius the play is called?
36. Which of the following is NOT advice that Polonius gives to Laertes?
37. In Scene 2, what does Rosencrantz ask Hamlet?
38. To where does Hamlet tell Ophelia to go?
39. In Scene 3, why does Hamlet say Polonius is at supper?
40. Who says, "all that live must die." ?
41. During Shakespeare's time, what was thegeneral societal belief about people who got revenge?
42. A major reason for Hamlet's dilemma is that he .....
43. Ophelia has died from
44. At Ophelia's funeral Hamlet declares:
45. How does Hamlet plan to prove Claudius's guilt?
46. Synonym for uncertainty, unsureness, indecision, hesitation, dubiousness, suspicion, confusion
47. ..... are a speech of sentence that the actor delivered the message to the audience.
48. In Scene 3, what has Claudius written in the letter that he sent to England with Hamlet?
49. Why does Claudius send Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to England?
50. If Laertes does not kill Hamlet, what is the back up plan?
51. Who suffers the first death of the play?
52. Who is Polonius having Reynaldo spy on?
53. Act 3 Scene 4:Why does Hamlet murder Polonius?
54. What does the quote by Hamlet mean? "My thoughts be bloody or be nothing worth"(4.5.69)
55. Which of the following behaviors does Ophelia NOT report about Hamlet in Act 2?
56. Who is the protagonist in the tragedy Hamlet?
57. When Polonius was giving Laertes fatherly advice he tells him not to
58. What does Hamlet criticize in this act?
59. Who does King Claudius say, "When sorrows come, they come not single spies but in battalions." to?
60. Who's the new king?