Hamlet Quiz 7 (20 MCQs)

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1. What is not a reason that Claudius givesin his soliloquy for why he killed King Hamlet?

Correct Answer: D) He was afraid that King Hamlet would killhim.

2. Which character survives at the end of Act 5?

Correct Answer: C) Horatio.

3. What does the king ask for at the end of the play within the play?

Correct Answer: D) Lights.

4. Who says "The serpent that did sting thy father's life now wears his crown" ?

Correct Answer: D) Ghost.

5. Where is Hamlet's university?

Correct Answer: B) Wittenburg.

6. What literary device is when the opposite of what is expected happens?

Correct Answer: B) Irony.

7. The act number is the same as .....

Correct Answer: A) [Log3(32)-Log3(32)] + 4.

8. Who is the Ghost?

Correct Answer: A) King Hamlet.

9. Whose skull does Hamlet hold during Act V, Scene I?

Correct Answer: C) Yorick's.

10. What is revealed by Claudius's soliloquy, beginning with 'O, my offense is rank, it smells to heaven'?

Correct Answer: C) Claudius murdered the old king.

11. What happens to Polonius?

Correct Answer: A) Hamlet murders him.

12. Why does Hamlet not kill Claudius after herushes away from the play?

Correct Answer: B) Claudius is praying.

13. Hamlet's stepfather feels ..... about the play Hamlet puts on.

Correct Answer: A) Irate, furious and very angry.

14. Which of the following characters does not appear in Hamlet?

Correct Answer: D) Miranda.

15. : "How strange or odd soe'er I bear myself-As I perchance hereafter shall think meet to put an antic disposition on."

Correct Answer: A) Hamlet.

16. Hamlet thinks his father was killed by a .....

Correct Answer: A) Snake.

17. What does Hamlet compare Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to?

Correct Answer: C) A sponge.

18. According to Prince Hamlet, what is NOT one of the effects of Denmark's custom of overindulging in alcohol?

Correct Answer: C) Foreigners come to Denmark to drink.

19. What was the meaning behind Hamlet's "to be or not to be" soliloquy?

Correct Answer: A) Should he continue his life.

20. Yorick's skull is an example of:

Correct Answer: C) Symbolism.