Hamlet Quiz 26 (20 MCQs)

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1. Claudius is Hamlet's .....

Correct Answer: C) Uncle.

2. What is Hamlet's reaction to the news that his father's ghost has appeared?

Correct Answer: B) He is interested and determined.

3. What is the cause of Ophelia's change in her mental disposition?

Correct Answer: A) Her love murdered her father.

4. Laertes poisons a .....

Correct Answer: A) Sword.

5. How does Hamlet die?

Correct Answer: B) Poison on a sword.

6. Synonym for muddle, disorganize, or disorder.

Correct Answer: A) Disturb.

7. Why does Hamlet ask the player to recite the tale of Priam's slaughter?

Correct Answer: A) It has a theme of revenge.

8. Hamlet's uncle-Hamlet's step father

Correct Answer: B) King Claudius.

9. How did King Hamlet actually die?

Correct Answer: D) Poison.

10. What does Polonius being "at supper" mean?

Correct Answer: C) He's being eaten by worms.

11. The Ghost looks a lot like

Correct Answer: A) Hamlet's father.

12. I was Hamlet's closest friend and confidant

Correct Answer: A) Horatio.

13. What is NOT a reason that Claudius hadn't punished Hamlet for killing Polonius?

Correct Answer: B) He is afraid of killing.

14. What literary term best describes the quote, "I'll make a ghost of him that hold me back." ?

Correct Answer: A) Foreshadow.

15. How are Polonius and Laertes related?

Correct Answer: C) Father/son.

16. Use the event in this story to judge Hamlet's feelings about plays and actors.

Correct Answer: B) Hamlet enjoys plays and knows a lot about them.

17. What happens to Laertes in Act 5?

Correct Answer: A) Hamlet stabs him with Laertes' own poisoned sword.

18. Name of the royal castle, seat of Denmark

Correct Answer: C) Elsinore.

19. How does the ghost say that King Hamlet was murdered?

Correct Answer: A) Poisoned in the ear by Claudius.

20. Why does Claudius decide to Kill Hamlet

Correct Answer: D) He knows Hamlet is on to him.