This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Drama > Hamlet – Quiz 23 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Hamlet Quiz 23 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. 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. 2. 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. 3. Who defined the tragic hero originally? A) Chaucer. B) Seneca. C) Shakespeare. D) Sophocles. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sophocles. 4. 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) Personification. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Metonym. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 5. 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. 6. 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. 7. 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!. 8. 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. 9. Laertes is willing to kill Hamlet ..... A) In a church. B) Within plain sight. C) During his sister's funeral. D) Only if he is found guilty. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) In a church. 10. 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. 11. Where is Hamlet in school? A) France. B) Wittenburg. C) Fortinbras. D) Elsinore. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Wittenburg. 12. 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. 13. 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. 14. What country was the play set in? A) Kenya. B) Denmark. C) Transylvania. D) England. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Denmark. 15. 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. 16. Why is Claudius really sending Hamlet to England? A) He is to collect money. B) He is to die. C) He is supposed to marry a princess. D) He is supposed to get well. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He is to die. 17. The Ghost speaks to A) Horatio. B) Hamlet. C) Claudius. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hamlet. 18. How does Ophelia die? A) Fencing. B) Drowning. C) Hanging. D) Poison. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Drowning. 19. For whose death does Laertes seek revenge? A) Ophelia. B) Polonius. C) King Hamlet. D) Claudius. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Polonius. 20. Who says "The drink, the drink! I am poisoned!" A) Gertrude. B) Claudius. C) Hamlet. D) Laertes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gertrude. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGenres QuizzesHamlet Quiz 1Hamlet Quiz 2Hamlet Quiz 3Hamlet Quiz 4Hamlet Quiz 5Hamlet Quiz 6Hamlet Quiz 7Hamlet Quiz 8Hamlet Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books