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hamlet

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

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1.

Hamlet is written as a(n)_____________________.

a)

Folktale

b)

Mystery

c)

Tragedy

d)

Screenplay

2.

Who is Hamlet and what is his plan in order to kill King Claudius?

a)

He is the main character, whose plan is to poison the King

b)

He is the main character, who plans to ignore his duty to avenge his father and wait for his time to access the throne

c)

He is the protagonist, whose plan is to get someone else to kill him

d)

He is the protagonist, and his plan is to act mad

3.

What is the purpose of the gravediggers?

a)

They are there symbolically

b)

They are only there to make the scene look more interesting

c)

They are there for comic relief

d)

They are there because they serve importance to the plot

4.

Whose skull did Hamlet recognize in the graveyard?

a)

King Hamlet's

b)

Yorik's

c)

Ophelia's

d)

He does not know whose skull it is

5.

How does Hamlet die?

a)

Laertes slashes him with his poisoned sword in Hamlet's back

b)

He kills himself with his own sword

c)

Laertes poisons him with his sword, straight into Hamlet's heart

d)

He poisons himself because he finally avenges his father and does not care for life anymore

6.

Who tried to commit suicide after Hamlet died?

a)

Queen Gertrude

b)

Horatio

c)

Laertes

d)

Ophelia

7.

Why didn't Hamlet kill King Claudius during the King's Confessional?

a)

He thought that when the King was slain, he would go to heaven because he confessed his sins

b)

He was worried that the King would go to pergatory and get one of his messengers to avenge his death

c)

He thought that the King would notice him and his plan would be ruined

d)

He was not sure if he wanted to kill him because it would have been more of a luxury for him to be dead rather than alive

8.

Did Queen Gertrude help with the murder of her husband?

a)

Yes, but she was merely an accessory(she helped Claudius plan it but did not do the crime)

b)

No, she had nothing to do with her husbands murder.

c)

No, she knew what Claudius had planned, but never believed that he was serious. She thought he was in a jealous state of mind

d)

Yes, she helped pour the poison into the cup for Claudius to murder Hamlet

9.

What reason does Polonius give to say that Hamlet has gone mad?

a)

He grieves too much for his father.

b)

He despises Claudius for marrying Gertrude.

c)

He is in love with Ophelia.

d)

He is jealous of Laertes and longs to return to Wittenberg.

10.

Which of Claudius and Laertes' traps for Hamlet succeeds in killing him?

a)

The poisoned cup

b)

The sharpened sword

c)

The poisoned sword

d)

The poisoned dagger