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- 1. Multiple Choice
What is the setting of Hamlet
Norway
England
Denmark
Scandinavia
- 2. Multiple Choice
Which of these is not a Night Watchman?
Bernardo
Horatio
Marcellus
Francisco
- 3. Multiple Choice
Who killed King Fortinbras?
King Claudius
King Hamlet
Prince Fortinbras
Mercenaries
- 4. Multiple Choice
"There's something rotten in the state of Denmark."
Gertrude
Hamlet
Horatio
Marcellus
- 5. Multiple Choice
Who is Laertes and Ophelia's father?
King Claudius
Polonius
Fortinbras
King Hamlet
- 6. Multiple Choice
Why is Hamlet so angry at the beginning of the play?
His mom killed his dad.
Him dad ran off with Ophelia.
Claudius married his mother.
His mother married Polonius.
- 7. Multiple Choice
"Cast thy nighted color off"
Claudius
Gertrude
Polonius
Horatio
- 8. Multiple Choice
What was the country told about how King Hamlet died?
A snake
A heart attack
A stroke
They don't know
- 9. Multiple Choice
How was King Hamlet killed?
Heart Attack
In battle with Fortinbras
Bow and arrow
Poison in the ear
- 10. Multiple Choice
What does King Hamlet ask his son to do?
Kill Prince Fortinbras
Get revenge on Claudius
Pray to God to heal the Great Chain
Commit suicide
- 11. Multiple Choice
"The funeral baked meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables."
Horatio, stating that the food is cold at the wedding.
Hamlet, saying that they baked all the meat as a funeral event
Hamlet, saying that they put the tables together to hold all the funeral food.
Hamlet, sarcastically talking about how close together the funeral and marriage are.
- 12. Multiple Choice
Where does Laertes want to go back to school?
Wittenburg
France
England
Elsinore
- 13. Multiple Choice
Who warns Ophelia about being with Hamlet?
Gertrude and Claudius
Horatio and Laertes
Polonius and Laertes
Just Polonius
- 14. Multiple Choice
"Neither a borrower nor a lender be."
King Hamlet to Hamlet telling him what to do after he died.
Polonius to Laertes telling him not to borrow or lend money.
Claudius to Hamlet telling him he can't borrow a carriage to go back to school
Polonius to Ophelia telling her not to spend time with Hamlet
- 15. Multiple Choice
"Frailty, thy name is woman"
Hamlet, giving us his girlfriend's name.
King Hamlet calling his wife weak.
Laertes, giving us his sister's name.
Hamlet, calling his mom (and by extension, all women) weak.
- 16. Multiple Choice
What does Hamlet make the Horatio and the night watchmen swear?
Not to tell anyone about the ghost.
To help him get revenge.
To kill his mother.
To follow the ghost.
- 17. Multiple Choice
Why does Marcellus think Horatio should speak to the ghost?
Marcellus doesn't think Horatio should speak to the ghost at all.
Because he doesn't believe in ghosts, so he's not afraid.
Because Horatio is Hamlet's best friend and the ghost will listen.
Because he's a scholar and the smartest of the men there and would know how to answer.
- 18. Multiple Choice
"Oh, that this too, too solid would melt and resolve into a dew and that the Everlasting had not fixed his canon 'gainst self-slaughter."
Horatio wants to have Claudius murdered.
Hamlet wants to fire a cannon at Fortinbras to melt his flesh
Hamlet wants to disappear and die
Hamlet wants have a bonfire and pray
- 19. Multiple Choice
Hamlet's "antic disposition" means
He's going to throw up
He's angry
He's suicidal
He's going to pretend to be crazy.
- 20. Multiple Choice
A device the playwright uses to give us a character's inner thoughts and emotions.
Role
Soliloquy
Aside
allusion
- 21. Multiple Choice
Mark all that apply: Hamlet
young
old
noble/ruling class
working class
- 22. Multiple Choice
Mark all that apply: Queen Gertrude
young
old
noble/ruling class
working class
- 23. Multiple Choice
Define the speaker: My lord, he hath importuned me with love in honorable fashion-
Ghost
Laertes
Hamlet
Ophelia
- 24. Multiple Choice
Define the speaker: Fear it, Ophelia, fear it, my dear sister,/And keep you in the rear of your affection/ Out of the shot and danger of desire.
Ghost
Laertes
Hamlet
Ophelia
- 25. Multiple Choice
Define the speaker: Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder.
Ghost
Laertes
Hamlet
Ophelia
- 26. Multiple Choice
Which country will soon attack?
points
London
Denmark
Norway
France
- 27. Multiple Choice
Malicious means
to beg
evil or mean
ghost
to eliminate
- 28. Multiple Choice
Who is Hamlet?Polonius' sonThe Lord ChamberlinA guardThe protagonist - 29. Multiple ChoiceWho is Horatio?The Lord ChamberlinHamlet's college friendClaudius' sonPolonius' son
- 30. Multiple ChoiceWho is the Ghost?Hamlet SeniorClaudiusPolonuisLaertes
- 31. Multiple ChoiceWho is Claudius?The Lord ChamberlinHamlet's BFFHamlet's uncleA guard
- 32. Multiple ChoiceWho is Gertrude?Polonius' wifeHamlet's love interestHamlet's momPolonius' daughter
- 33. Multiple ChoiceWho is Laertes?Hamlet's BFFThe KingPolonius' sonthe Lord Chamberlin
- 34. Multiple ChoiceWho is Polonius?Hamlet's fatherGertrude's husbandLaertes' servantThe Lord Chamberlin
- 35. Multiple ChoiceWho is Ophelia?Polonius' daughterHamlet's sisterGertrudes' handmaidenLaertes' wife
- 36. Multiple ChoiceWho is Young Fortinbras?The Prince of DenmarkThe Prince of NorwayHamlet's cousinOphelia's love interest
- 37. Multiple ChoiceWhat does Young Fortinbras want to do?Rule the worldRegain lands his father lostConquer DenmarkRob Hamlet
- 38. Multiple ChoiceWhat does Laertes warn Ophelia about?Untrustworthy friendsGuarding her virginityLeading moneyBuying flashy clothes
- 39. Multiple ChoiceWhat does the Ghost tell Hamlet?They are not bloodLaertes wants to be kingFortinbras is the rightful kingClaudius is a murderer
- 40. Multiple ChoiceWhy does the Ghost tell Hamlet not to punish Gertrude?Lust is in her nature and God will judge herClaudius tricked herPolonuis' job is to kill herShe knows not what she does
- 41. Multiple ChoiceHamlet has Horatio swear to...Protect Gertrude from ClaudiusAttend church every SundayPretend he knows nothingDefend him in battle
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