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1
Who can we assume becomes King Fortinbras' chief advisor?
Osric
Voltimand
The English Ambassador
Horatio
2
A Tragic Flaw is also known as...
catharsis
hamartia
peripeteia
anagnorisis
3
According to Hamlet, what is the "undiscover'd country"?
Norway
England
Poland
Afterlife
4
What play did Polonius once act in?
Julius Caesar
Titus Andronicus
Macbeth
Antony and Cleopatra
5
What's the real title of the play-within-the-play?
The Murder of Gonzago
The Revenge of Lucianus
A Spanish Tragedy
The Marriage of Baptista
6
How many characters lie dead on the stage at the end?
4
2
5
3
7
Who wrote the first Revenge Tragedy?
Thomas Kidd
Kit Marlow
Seneca
Plautus
8
How many characters die during the play (on- or off-stage)?
6
9
7
8
9
Voltimand and Cornelius are ambassadors to?
France
Sweden
Norway
England
10
Who is Gertrude referring to when she claims "The lady does protest too much, me thinks"?
herself
Ophelia
Baptista
Hecuba
11
Who threatens to eat a crocodile??
Hamlet
Laertes
Rosencrantz
Ophelia
12
Hamlet and Ophelia provide juxtaposition over
obedience
madness
love
jealousy
13
Everybody loves using...
dungeons
chapels
oubliettes
arrases
14
Which historic figure is referenced three times in the narrative?
King Priam
Alexander the Great
Julius Caesar
Pyrrhus
15
Who says "I am justly kill'd with mine own treachery"?
Polonius
Claudius
Hamlet
Laertes
16
What does Hamlet seem to enjoy doing?
acting
all of them
sword fencing
reading
17
Who spends way too much time thinking before acting in the play?
Laertes
Hamlet
Polonius
Claudius
18
Who owned the pub across the street from the Globe Theatre in 1601?
Shakespeare
Yaughan
Yorick
Osric Kettleblack
19
Who does Claudius replace Polonius with?
Osric
Voltimand
Bernardo
Laertes
20
What do Chameleon's eat (according to Medieval people)?
insects
birds
leaves
air
21
What's the opposite of Oedipus Complex?
Brumhilda Complex
Elektra Complex
Ophelia Complex
Cordelia Complex
22
Who delivers the last lines of the play?
Hamlet
the English Ambassador
Fortinbras
Horatio
23
Where is the play set?
Copenhagen
Wittenberg
Elsinore
Cawdor
24
What does Hamlet mean when he exclaims "That it should come to this!" ?
that his mind should be so disordered
that his mother should remarry
that his uncle should become king
all of this
25
Polonius tells Laertes "To thine own self be true". This is ironic because...
Laertes never follows the advice
Hamlet is listening in on the advice
Ophelia is the only once actually listening
Polonius doesn't follow his own advice
26
What does Marcellus mean when he states "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark"?
Horatio shouldn't be in Denmark
King Claudius is obviously corrupt
something has gone wrong in Denmark
something smells funny (maybe Horatio?)
27
Who is the only major character to survive the story?
Osric
Laertes
Fortinbras
Horatio
28
Who's skull does Hamlet hold?
a lawyer's
Yorick's
Yaughan's
Osric's
29
King Claudius and King Hamlet...
are both compared to gods
are both arrogant
both rule well
both love Gertrude
30
What is the main rule of a Tragedy?
the hero must seek revenge
everybody must die
the villain has to die
the hero must die
31
How old is Hamlet?
30
35
20
25
32
Who says "something's rotten in the state of Denmark"?
Marcellus
Laertes
Horatio
Bernardo
33
Nemesis is...
your opponent or opposite
rightful justice
the Greek goddess of retribution
actions suit the rewards
34
Hamlet recites from memory a speech about...
Julius Caesar
Alexander the Great
Odysseus
King Priam
35
Who's soliloquy contains "O! Woe is me, to have seen what I have seen, see what I see"?
Claudius'
Hamlet's
Ophelia's
Gertrude's
36
What title does Hamlet call his revised version?
The Murder of Gonzago
The Chameleon's Dish
A Knavish Piece of Work
The Mousetrap
37
Who says "It shall be so, madness in great ones must not unwatched go"?
Hamlet
Claudius
Laertes
Polonius
38
Hamlet's fatal flaw is?
lust
pride
hesistation
guilt
39
Hamlet
was handwritten by Shakespeare and other scribes a total of 10 times. These are called?
folios
poinards
editions
volumes
40
What stops Claudius from acting against Hamlet?
Ophelia loves him
fatal hesitation
Gertrude loves him
the people love him
41
Laertes wants to go back to...
England
Copenhagen
Paris
Wittenberg
42
The hero's final redeeming act provides...
peripeteia
hamartia
catharsis
anagnorisis
43
Where does the first scene occur?
in the crypt
in the castle
in the throne room
on the battlements
44
What type of allusions are used in the play?
Literary
Mythological
Biblical
Historical
45
Which character loves to pun?
Claudius
Hamlet
Laertes
Polonius
46
Which form of death does not occur in the play?
drowning
poisoning
stabbing
natural causes
47
What's a 'fardel'?
abuses
aches and pains
troubles
a sword
48
Who is Hamlet specifically referring to in the quote "Frailty, thy name is woman!"
all women
both of them
Ophelia
Gertrude
49
What does Polonius mean when he states "Though this is madness, yet there is method in't"?
Hamlet is up to something
Hamlet isn't really mad
Hamlet's madness is obviously fake
There's some reason behind Hamlet's madness
50
The play
Hamlet
is loosely based on the life of...
King Henry VIII of England
Prince Gonzago of Mantua
King Gustav of Norway
Amleth of Jutland
51
What's a drab?
a prostitute
a book
a speech
a dark mood
52
Most of Hamlet's soliloquys deal with...
revenge
hesistation
death
Ophelia
53
Why can't Hamlet marry Ophelia?
she's not royalty
she's too young
she's not nobility
she's not a virgin
54
How many specifically named characters (who have lines) are there in the play?
22
12
17
15
55
Who says "Never believe it; I am more an antique Roman than a Dane..."
Horatio
Claudius
Polonius
Hamlet
56
Hamlet has an off-stage encounter with...
Ophelia's mother
pirates
the King of Norway
Fortinbras
57
Laertes and Hamlet provide foil for each other because...
they duel with foils
they disagree over murder in church
they both are tricked by Claudius
they both want revenge
58
Who spends too little time thinking things through in the play?
Laertes
Claudius
Hamlet
Polonius
59
Which one isn't a humour?
sweat
urine
phlegm
blood
60
Which character doesn't get a line of dialogue as they die?
Polonius
Claudius
Laertes
Ophelia
61
How much time has passed between the death of King Hamlet and Gertrude's remarriage?
two months
two weeks
one year
six months
62
Who wrote the first classical or traditional tragedy?
Homer
Sophocles
Aristotle
Socrates
63
When was
Hamlet
originally published?
1599
1601
1610
1590
64
Who restores order at the end of the play?
Oscric
Horatio
Fortinbras
The English Ambassador
65
What line is the exact climax of the play?
"To be or not to be"
"Give me some light"
"Now could I drink hot blood"
"Thus diest thou"
66
What are bodkins, poniards and foils?
books
servants
swords
noble titles
67
What does Fortinbras want?
to be loved
land his father lost
his uncle's respect
to fight wars, lots of wars
68
What does
zeitgeist
mean?
in the spirit of the times
historical context
contemporary
a cultural touchstone
69
Who's Niobe?
A classical figure who cried a river
Ophelia's nurse
Ophelia's mother
A classical queen who saw her husband die
70
Hamlet and Fortinbras provide strong juxtaposition because...
they are both princes
one acts quickly, the other not at all
both their father's were killed
they both want revenge
71
What title did this skull hold when he was alive?
king
king's counsel
court jester
king's adviser
72
Which minor characters survive the play?
they all do
Bernardo, Marcellus and Francisco
Oscric, Fortinbras and the English Ambassador
Reynaldo, Voltimand and Cornelius
73
When Hamlet refers to "outrageous fortune" in his most famous soliloquy he means?
his growing self-doubt
everything bad that has happened to him
his growing madness
both good and bad luck
74
Who speaks the first line of the play?
Horatio
Bernardo
Claudius
Hamlet
75
Who says "so full of artless jealousy is guilt, it spills itself in fearing to be spilt"?
Gertrude
Hamlet
Claudius
Polonius
76
What forms of imagery are used in the play?
disease/decay
human anatomy
garden/growing
mythological
77
Who does the First Player weep for while giving his long speech?
Baptista
Niobe
Gonzago
Hecuba
78
Who is it who builds better than a mason, a shipwright or a carpenter?
a gravedigger
a gallows-maker
a playwright
a coroner
79
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are...
former servants
college friends
nephews of Hamlet's
childhood friends
80
Where did Horatio come from?
Wittenberg
Copenhagen
We're not told
Stockholm
