Hamlet Quiz 6 (20 MCQs)

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1. Horatio joins the guards out on duty because:

Correct Answer: A) They believe a ghost will speak to an educated man.

2. What reason do Rosencrantz and Guildenstern give Hamlet for their arrival to Denmark?

Correct Answer: B) They are just visiting him.

3. Who did Hamlet think Polonius was when he stabbed him through the curtain?

Correct Answer: B) He thought it was Claudius.

4. When Laertes' see his sister's state and hears about his father's murder he:

Correct Answer: C) Demands answers from Claudius.

5. "Am I not I' the right, old Jephthah? "

Correct Answer: A) Hamlet.

6. Who is the only one who believes Ophelia to be the cause of Hamlet's madness?

Correct Answer: A) Polonius.

7. Ophelia uses these buds of nature as symbols for other characters.

Correct Answer: B) Flowers.

8. Besides to be demanded of a sponge is an example of what?

Correct Answer: C) Metaphor.

9. Who remarries and betrays their original spouse?

Correct Answer: C) Gertrude.

10. What does the king say to stop Hamlet's play?

Correct Answer: D) Light.

11. What does Hamlet call Denmark and the whole world?

Correct Answer: D) Prison.

12. In his first appearance onstage, Hamlet is wearing .....

Correct Answer: B) His mourning clothes.

13. Hamlet's real cause for rage is that

Correct Answer: B) He has done nothing to revenge his father's killing.

14. What is a literary device?

Correct Answer: A) A technique used by a writer to convey a message.

15. Claudius sends two messengers, Cornelius and Voltemand, to deliver a message to the ruler of which country?

Correct Answer: B) Norway.

16. The most famous line of the play is

Correct Answer: B) "To be or not to be, that is the question.".

17. Finish the quote: "one may smile, and smile and be a .....? "

Correct Answer: A) Villain.

18. At the end of scene iii, Ophelia agrees to obey Polonius' wish. What will she do?

Correct Answer: C) She will stay away from Hamlet and reject his affections.

19. What do Claudius's words, "Do it, England, " mean?

Correct Answer: D) "Kill Hamlet".

20. Hamlet dies from:

Correct Answer: D) Poison on a sword.