This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Drama > Hamlet – Quiz 51 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Hamlet Quiz 51 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Who is Marcellus? A) The Lord Chamberlain. B) A Guard. C) Polonius' son. D) Hamlet's BFF. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A Guard. 2. Who does Polonius send to spy on Laertes in Paris? A) Francisco. B) Gorgonzola. C) Reynaldo. D) Samson. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Reynaldo. 3. Why does Laertes force his way into the castle? What does he want? A) He wants to marry Ophelia. B) He wants to kidnap the Queen and hold her for ransom. C) He wants to avenge his father's death. D) He wants to be given the title to his father's lands. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He wants to avenge his father's death. 4. Who first sees the ghost? A) Ophelia. B) Hamlet. C) Marcellus & Bernardo. D) Claudius. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Marcellus & Bernardo. 5. Who said, "though this be madness, yet there is method in't? A) Gertrude. B) Ophelia. C) Marcellus. D) Polonius. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Polonius. 6. What is the most important event that occurs prior to the beginning of the play? A) The marriage of Hamlet's uncle and mother. B) The mysterious death of King Hamlet. C) The conflict between King Hamlet and Fortinbras. D) The breakup of Hamlet and Ophelia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The mysterious death of King Hamlet. 7. Hamlet's father was really killed by ..... A) A snake. B) A heart attack. C) A stroke. D) Poison. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Poison. 8. What does Horatio think about the sightingof King Hamlet's ghost? A) It's good to know that we can make contactwith the dead. B) It means that he should question Gertrude. C) It's an omen of bad things to come. D) It's too frightening to view. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It's an omen of bad things to come. 9. What message does Rosencrantz deliver to Hamlet from the Queen? A) She is angry and won't speak to him for one month. B) She wants to see him. C) She is arranging for him to have dinner with a girl she thinks he will like. D) She wants him to go to Norway immediately. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) She wants to see him. 10. In scene 3 why does Laertes compare Hamlet's love to perfume? A) It is sweet and fragrant. B) Hamlet hangs around Ophelia like a cloud of perfume. C) It is a luxury. D) It will disappear after a short while. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) It will disappear after a short while. 11. Act 3 Scene 3:What is King Claudius trying to figure out? A) What Hamlet is going to do next. B) Why there is a ghost visiting. C) If he should confess that he murdered his brother. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) If he should confess that he murdered his brother. 12. Who said "How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!" A) Cladius. B) Laertes. C) Hamlet. D) Horatio. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hamlet. 13. "Your majesty and we that have free souls, it touches us not!" (Hamlet, Scene 8)Which type of irony is this an example of? A) Situational. B) Verbal. C) Dramatic. D) Shakespearean. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Verbal. 14. Hamlet's mother married her husband's brother ..... A) Before the war against old Fortinbras. B) After the ghost appeared. C) Less than 2 months before her husband's death. D) Less than 2 months after her husband's death. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Less than 2 months after her husband's death. 15. What did Ophelia have with her while dying? A) Hamlet's letters. B) A book. C) Candles. D) Flowers. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Flowers. 16. How many soliloquies does Hamlet deliver? A) 2. B) 4. C) 7. D) 9. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 7. 17. Who is Hamlet's mother? A) Gertrude. B) Ophelia. C) Juliet. D) Lady Macbeth. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gertrude. 18. Who does Hamlet address in the graveyard, while holding the skull? A) Horatio. B) Yorick. C) Claudius. D) His father, King Hamlet. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Yorick. 19. The true nature of Polonius' character isemphasized when he sends Reynaldo to do what toLaertes? A) Force him to break up with his girlfriend. B) Give him money. C) Spy on him. D) Poison him. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Spy on him. 20. Who says "I will speak daggers to her but use none" ? A) Laertes. B) Fortinbras. C) Hamlet. D) Claudius. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hamlet. ← 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