Hamlet Multiple Choice Questions
1 What does Hamlet call Polonius?
a. father-in-law
b. dear man
c. a fishmonger
d. father
2. In form, Hamlet is above all what sort of play?
a. comedy
b. punch and judy show
c. morality play
d. revenge play
3 Who saves Hamlet’s life?
a. Old Hamlet
b. Polonius
c. Ophelia
d. pirates
4 Young Fortinbras says he is invading
a. Poland
b. Denmark
c. England
d. Germany
5 The health of a. state seems related. to
a. the moral state of the leader
b. the physical state of its people
c. the moral state of its people
d. the physical state of its leader
6 There are images throughout the play relating to
a. neck
b. ears
c. nose
d. eyelashes
7 Who survives the play?
a. Laertes and Polonius and Ophelia
b. Horatio
c. Claudius and Gertrude
d. Hamlet
8 When the play begins, the castle is celebrating
a. King Claudius and Queen Gertrude’s marriage
b. Laertes’ return
c. Hamlet’s return
d. Old Hamlet’s defeat of Old Fortinbras
9 Where does the ghost say he wanders?
a. Heaven
b. Hell
c. Purgatory
d. Baltic Sea
10 How does Ophelia die?
a. drowning
b. fencing
c. hanging
d. poison
11 Where does Hamlet say Ophelia should go?
a. a castle
b. a nunnery
c. Russia
d. a bakery
12 What religion was Denmark at time of writing?
a. High Anglican
b. Protestant
c. Catholic
d. Anglican
13 Where does Hamlet go to university?
a. France
b. Germany
c. England
d. Luxembourg
14 Why are Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in Denmark?
a. to bring Hamlet back to England
b. to cheer up Hamlet
c. to find out why Hamlet is acting mad
d. to kill Hamlet
15 Who has Hamlet professed love for?
a. Gertrude
b. Ophelia
c. Guildenstern
d. Rosencrantz
16 What noise drives the ghost offstage?
a. Hamlet crying
b. his wife sleeping with Claudius
c. a cock’s crow
d. a string quartet
17 Hamlet’s famous speeches are called
a. unilogues
b. dramatic. irony
c. soliloquys
d. dialogues
18 Hamlet claims to be afflicted by
a. gout
b. schizophrenia
c. dyslexia
d. melancholy
19 In his first appearance onstage, Hamlet is wearing
a. royal robes
b. mourning clothes
c. a. jester’s costume
d. the crown
20 The ghost claims he is
a. Old Hamlet
b. Old Fortinbras
c. the King of Norway
d. Claudius
21 The ghost is first spotted
a. in Gertrude’s chambers
b. in the graveyard
c. outside the castle
d. on the deck of the ship
22 Claudius poisoned
a. Old Hamlet
b. Gertrude
c. Hamlet
d. Ophelia
23 Hamlet’s stepfather is also his
a. nephew
b. grandfather
c. brother
d. uncle
24 Hamlet is a
a. fool
b. princess
c. king
d. prince
25 Hamlet is set in
a. Scotland
b. Denmark
c. Sweden
d. England