Hamlet Quiz 25 (20 MCQs)

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1. Who wrote Hamlet?

Correct Answer: B) Shakespeare.

2. Who says, "The king, the king's to blame" ?

Correct Answer: C) Laertes.

3. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are prompted to do the king's bidding by their

Correct Answer: B) Loyalty to the king.

4. Hamlet expresses his love of .....

Correct Answer: B) Theatre.

5. What is Hamlet pretending to do with Polonius?

Correct Answer: B) Act crazy.

6. Hamlet says ..... is "not where he eats, but where he is eaten."

Correct Answer: A) Polonius.

7. What is the cause of Ophelia's death?

Correct Answer: C) Drowning.

8. What does Polonius think Hamlet's problem is?

Correct Answer: D) He's mad with love for Ophelia.

9. The Lord Chamberlain ..... Hamlet's advisor

Correct Answer: C) Polonius.

10. In which of the following years was Hamlet most likely written?

Correct Answer: C) 1601.

11. What had Bernardo seen at a prior watch?

Correct Answer: B) King Hamlet's ghost.

12. What reason does Claudius give for the queen falling down after she is poisoned?

Correct Answer: C) She fainted at the site of blood.

13. The difference between the ghost in Act I of the play and the ghost in Act III, is that

Correct Answer: A) Only Hamlet sees the ghost in Act III; in Act I, others did.

14. Who does Claudius ask to keep an eye on Hamlet?

Correct Answer: C) Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.

15. Ophelia:

Correct Answer: A) Drowns in a brook.

16. When we meet this character he is depressed and contemplating suicide

Correct Answer: B) Hamlet.

17. What play does Brandon choose to put on?

Correct Answer: C) Hamlet.

18. In what act do you receive information about the setting and character.

Correct Answer: A) Act 1.

19. Whom did King Hamlet kill (causing that person to lose his lands)?

Correct Answer: A) King Fortinbras.

20. Who becomes king at the end of the story?

Correct Answer: B) Fortinbras.