Hamlet: The Quiz

Hamlet takes place in

• England.

• Sweden.

• Norway.

• Denmark.

Which of the following occurs firs in the play?

• Hamlet fails to kill the kneeling king.

• The actor present The Mousetrap.

• Ophelia drowns.

• Hamlet kills Polonius.

Which of the following occurs last in the play?

• Claudius is killed by Hamlet.

• Fortinbras returns fro Poland.

• Horatio reads a letter from Hamlet.

• Laertes is killed by Hamlet.

Hamlet's closest friend and confidant is

• Horatio.

• Rosencrantz.

• Guildenstern.

• Ophelia.

Whom does Hamlet stab through a curtain?

• Claudius

• Polonius

• Laertes

• no one

Comic relief is added to the play by

• Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.

• the actors.

• the gravediggers.

• King Hamlet's ghost.

How many times do the actors dramatize the murder of the king?

• once

• twice

• three times

• on seven subsequent evenings

According to the ghost, Queen Gertrude

• personally carried out his assassination.

• had an affair with his brother.

• must be killed for her role in killing her husband.

• plans to run away to Norway.

Hamlet first hesitates to kill Claudius because

• he believes murder is a sin.

• he is afraid he will get caught.

• he is not sure he can trust the ghost.

• he does not want to make his mother's life difficult.

When we first see Hamlet, before his encounter with the ghost, he is

• excited by the idea of returning to school in Wittenberg.

• nervously planning a date with Ophelia.

• angry about he sneaky behavior of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.

• depressed by events in his family.