Hamlet Quiz 24 (20 MCQs)

Quiz Instructions

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1. I told Ophelia to go to a nunnery

Correct Answer: D) Hamlet.

2. Actor playing Hamlet in Shakespeare's time

Correct Answer: C) Richard Burbage.

3. What is the central ideas of the play? (It is the main key that will be expressed by the setting, character, plot and dialogue.)

Correct Answer: B) Theme.

4. Hamlet speaks in riddles & refuses to tell Ros & Guil the location of Polonius's corpse, but he agrees to accompany them to see whom?

Correct Answer: A) King Claudius.

5. King Claudius' soliloquy while trying to pray reveals

Correct Answer: A) The heavy guilt of his conscience.

6. What do Laertes and Polonius warn Ophelia of in Act I?

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

7. When Claudius shouts for "lights" before "The Mousetrap" is over, Hamlet is convinced:

Correct Answer: B) That Claudius is guilty of his father's murder.

8. O, from this time forth, my thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth.

Correct Answer: A) Hamlet.

9. Why did Ophelia descend into madness

Correct Answer: C) Loss of her father and rejection off hamlet.

10. Who says, "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy." ?

Correct Answer: B) Hamlet.

11. What's the best way to characterize thelanguage Hamlet uses towards Ophelia while they arepreparing to watch the play?

Correct Answer: C) Vulgar.

12. How are Hamlet and Fortinbras alike?

Correct Answer: C) They both have fathers that they wish to avenge.

13. Ophelia felt uneasy when Hamlet visited her because

Correct Answer: D) Hamlet's appearance and behavior were strange.

14. A major difference between Laertes and Hamlet is that Laertes

Correct Answer: C) Finds solace for his grief in action.

15. Who does the ghost ask for (the second time he appears to the play)?

Correct Answer: C) Hamlet.

16. Who is "a rat, a rat'?

Correct Answer: A) Polonius.

17. This character gives the first soliloquy in the play:

Correct Answer: D) Hamlet.

18. Act II, in the structure of tragedy pattern, is called the:

Correct Answer: A) Act of Growth.

19. Who is the King of Denmark when the play begins?

Correct Answer: C) Claudius.

20. Hamlet responds to whom as trying to play him like a flute?

Correct Answer: B) Rosencrantz and Guidenstern.