This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Drama > Hamlet – Quiz 3 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Hamlet Quiz 3 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The Ghost appears in Scene 4 to A) Make Hamlet appear even more insane in his mother's eyes. 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 to kill him. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mitigate Hamlet's cruel treatment of his mother. 2. How would you describe hamlet in act 1 scene 2? A) Angry. B) Happy. C) Power hungry. D) Cheeky. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Angry. 3. Who says "In heaven, send thither to see. If your messenger find him not there, seek him i'the other place yourself" ? A) Claudius. B) Polonius. C) Hamlet. D) Rosencrantz. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hamlet. 4. What is the purpose of the play, The Murder of Ganzago, to be staged by the traveling actors? A) To give Hamlet something to distract himself. B) To distract Prince Fortinbras from his attack. C) To ease the somber mood at Elsinore. D) To prove or disprove the claims of the ghost. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To prove or disprove the claims of the ghost. 5. What group of people arrives in Act II, Scene II? A) A theater troupe. B) A golf team. C) A well-known comic. D) A group of disgraced court jesters. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A theater troupe. 6. What do Marcellus, Bernardo, and Horatio do when Hamlet starts to follow the Ghost? A) They tell the ghost to go away. B) They encourage Hamlet to follow the Ghost. C) They try to hold Hamlet back. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They try to hold Hamlet back. 7. Old King Hamlet was killed by A) His brother with poison. B) His brother in a sword fight. C) Old King Fortinbras during the war. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) His brother with poison. 8. Which is NOT a symbol found in Hamlet? A) Skull. B) Ghost. C) Weather. D) Snowman. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Snowman. 9. Polonius is father to who? A) Hamlet. B) Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. C) Ophelia and Laertes. D) Claudius. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ophelia and Laertes. 10. How is Claudius related to Hamlet BEFORE marrying Gertrude? A) He is Hamlet's legitimate father. B) He is Gertrude's brother, and Hamlet's uncle. C) He is a close family friend, and of no relation. D) He is King Hamlet's brother, so Hamlet's uncle. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) He is King Hamlet's brother, so Hamlet's uncle. 11. Who does Hamlet kill during the "closet scene? " A) Claudius. B) Gertrude. C) Fortinbras. D) Polonius. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Polonius. 12. What does Hamlet mean when he says his thoughts will be bloody? A) He will kill himself. B) He will kill Fortinbras. C) He will kill Claudius. D) He has a head injury. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He will kill Claudius. 13. What is the name of the playlet Hamlet stages for Claudius? A) Slings and Arrows. B) Vice of Kings. C) The murder of Gonzalo. D) The Slaying of Lucianus. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The murder of Gonzalo. 14. When Rosencrantz and Guildenstern tell Hamlet that the king is very disturbed, what does Hamlet suggest as the reason? A) He feels guilty. B) He has been poisoned. C) He is drunk. D) He has a fever. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He feels guilty. 15. Polonius talks so much he ..... A) Runs out of oxygen. B) Can't keep secrets. C) Offends the king. D) Forgets what he is saying. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Forgets what he is saying. 16. Question:The play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king. A) Horatio. B) Hamlet. C) Ophelia. D) Claudius. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hamlet. 17. The ghost has come again to A) Revenge the killing of Polonius. B) Scold Queen Gertrude. C) Scold King Claudius. D) Remind the Prince to take revenge. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Remind the Prince to take revenge. 18. The King had panned that Hamlet would be killed in England.Instead, Hamlet has arranged that ..... will be put to death there. A) Laertes and Claudius. B) Rosencrantz and Horatio. C) Claudius and Gertrude. D) Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. 19. Claudius feels some guilt about what he had done. At one point, he thinks to himself, "Oh, my crime is so rotten it stinks all the way to heaven. It has the mark of Cain on it, a brother's murder." This is an example of: A) Foreshadowing. B) Allusion. C) Tragedy. D) Satire. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Allusion. 20. How does Laertes die? A) Poison in a cup. B) Poison on a sword. C) Poison in the ear. D) Stabbed to death in a duel. 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