Hamlet Quiz 2 (20 MCQs)

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1. What is a stage where people perform the character or the story by expressing the feeling of the character in the form of acting or performance.

Correct Answer: B) Drama.

2. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are:

Correct Answer: C) Slimy sellouts.

3. What is Hamlet debating when he gives his "To be, or not to be" soliloquy?

Correct Answer: C) Committing suicide.

4. The young prince of Norway, whose father the king and was killed by Hamlet's father

Correct Answer: B) Fortinbras.

5. Who is Horatio?

Correct Answer: B) Hamlet's best friend.

6. Hamlet is set in

Correct Answer: C) Denmark.

7. Who says, "But now my cousin Hamlet ..... and my son"

Correct Answer: B) Claudius.

8. In the bedroom scene (scene iv), Hamlet forces Gertrude to look at two pictures

Correct Answer: B) One of Claudius and one of King Hamlet.

9. Act 3 Scene 4:Why does the ghost return?

Correct Answer: B) To remind Hamlet to avenge his murder.

10. What is the function of the play-within-the-play?

Correct Answer: A) To expose Hamlet's father murderer.

11. What is NOT poisoned?

Correct Answer: D) The gold.

12. Gertrude presents Ophelia's death as an accident, but it may .....

Correct Answer: A) Be the cause of suicide.

13. The ambassadors to Norway return and announce that:

Correct Answer: A) The King of Norway has ordered Fortinbras not to attack.

14. For his own safety (according to his stepfather) Hamlet is sent to .....

Correct Answer: D) England.

15. What poisons the drink?

Correct Answer: C) The pearl.

16. How is Ophelia and Hamlet descend to madness different

Correct Answer: B) Hamlet could carry on but Ophelia couldn't live without a man in her life.

17. Who takes over Denmark?

Correct Answer: A) Fortinbras.

18. Wick's assistant

Correct Answer: B) Emma.

19. What does "mirth" mean?

Correct Answer: A) Joyous celebration.

20. How many people do the pirates capture?

Correct Answer: B) Only one, Hamlet.