Hamlet Quiz 11 (20 MCQs)

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1. What information does Hamlet find in Claudius' letter to the King of England?

Correct Answer: C) Hamlet should be put to death.

2. In which country is the play Hamlet set?

Correct Answer: C) Denmark.

3. When Claudius is praying, Hamlet hesitates to kill him.Hamlet wants to wait until

Correct Answer: A) Claudius does something wrong.

4. Claudius urges Gertrude to not drink the wine, but she does. This is .....

Correct Answer: A) Dramatic Irony.

5. Is severely depressed, possibly "mad"

Correct Answer: B) Hamlet.

6. The ghost's ..... was frightening.

Correct Answer: A) Appearance.

7. Who is Reynaldo

Correct Answer: C) Polonius' Spy.

8. Where does the ghost say he wanders?

Correct Answer: D) Purgatory.

9. Laertes' father is .....

Correct Answer: A) Polonio.

10. According to Hamlet, Claudius causes the Danes to have what reputation with the other European countries?

Correct Answer: C) Hard drinking citizens.

11. The ghost is first spotted .....

Correct Answer: B) Outside the castle.

12. Which of the following is NOT an example of hyperbole from Hamlet?

Correct Answer: B) "To be, or not to be".

13. Hamlet tells Horatio that he will begin to behave in which way?

Correct Answer: A) Crazy.

14. Shakespeare's acting company

Correct Answer: C) The Lord Chamberlain's Men.

15. Hamlet's plan will work only if .....

Correct Answer: D) Claudius still has the capacity to feel guilt.

16. Who lives in the end?

Correct Answer: B) Horatio.

17. He/She is killed by both a sword and poisoned wine

Correct Answer: A) Claudius.

18. Why as a woodcock to mine own springe, Osric; I am justly kill'd with mine own treachery.

Correct Answer: A) Laertes.

19. What does Hamlet call Polonius?

Correct Answer: B) Fishmonger.

20. What does Brandon Confide in Emma?

Correct Answer: C) He doesn't know how to SHOW Hamlet to the audience.