Hamlet Quiz 14 (20 MCQs)

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1. What do Laertes and Polonius warn Ophelia of in Act I Scene 3?

Correct Answer: A) Hamlet may not have the best of intentions with her.

2. When Hamlet explains why the Kning and Queen want his friends to watch him, he does not say this is a reason:

Correct Answer: C) Hamlet talks about seeing a ghost.

3. In Scene 5, what is wrong with Ophelia?

Correct Answer: B) She has gone mad as a result of Hamlet's actions.

4. The Ghost's speech affects Hamlet's view of his mother because he learns that she was:

Correct Answer: B) Unfaithful to his father.

5. By the end of Act II, we have learned Laertes wants:

Correct Answer: D) All of the above.

6. Who asked Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to come to Elsinore?

Correct Answer: B) King and Queen.

7. What special favor does Hamlet ask of the traveling actors?

Correct Answer: B) To write extra dialogue into "The Murder of Gonzago".

8. Who does the ghost beckon the second time he appears in the play?

Correct Answer: B) Hamlet.

9. What does Hamlet instruct Horatio to do?

Correct Answer: D) Tell Hamlet's story.

10. What is The Mousetrap?

Correct Answer: C) The play within a play.

11. In Hamlet, Ophelia alerts her father Hamlet has approached her with an air of .....

Correct Answer: C) Madness.

12. "When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions" was said by who?

Correct Answer: D) Claudius.

13. Where does Hamlet say Ophelia should go?

Correct Answer: B) A nunnery.

14. How were Hamlets and Ophelias descend to madness in some way the same.

Correct Answer: B) They were both due to grief.

15. To which characters does Hamlet reveal that he is but "mad in craft" and not truly mad?

Correct Answer: C) Horatio, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.

16. Who said it: "Murder most foul, as murder aways is"

Correct Answer: A) Ghost.

17. Who is stabbed through an arras?

Correct Answer: C) Polonius.

18. What does the ghost ask Hamlet to do?

Correct Answer: C) Avenge his death by murdering Claudius.

19. What happens to Ophelia?

Correct Answer: A) She drowns.

20. Which of the following is the clearest indication that this speech shows the Roman view of the Trojan War?

Correct Answer: C) The son of Achilles is portrayed as the villain.