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Hamlet Mortality

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who said "To be or not to be"?

a)

Shakespeare

b)

Hamlet

c)

Richard Burbage

d)

Benedict Cumberbatch

e)

Stewart Meade

2.

Who said "To die: - to sleep: No more; and, by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and..."?

a)

Guard 1

b)

Hamlet

c)

Laertes

d)

King

e)

Queen

3.

Who said "Thou know'st 'tis common, all that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity"?

a)

Gertrude

b)

Hamlet

c)

Claudius

d)

Horatio

e)

The ghost

4.

What is the meaning of life?

a)

42

b)

Hamlet

c)

Shakespeare

d)

The American Dream

e)

Year 12 ENglish

5.

Who said: "He is dead and gone, lady, He is dead and gone; At his head a grass-green turf, At his heels a stone"?

a)

Harry Walker

b)

Hamlet

c)

Ophelia

d)

Laertes

6.

What analogy is commonly used to describe mortality in the play?

a)

dirt

b)

Hamlet

c)

sand

d)

dust

7.

Who's skull does Hamlet hold?

a)

His father's

b)

Hamlet's

c)

Yorrick's

d)

Shakespeare's

e)

Marcellus'

8.

What animal does Hamlet say will inevitable eat kings and peasants alike?

a)

worms

b)

Hamlet

c)

insects

d)

lions

e)

crocodiles

9.

Finish this quote: "To be or not to ___"

a)

be

b)

Hamlet?

c)

see?

d)

be?

e)

bee?

10.

What does mortality mean?

a)

The state of being subject to death

b)

Hamlet

c)

The state of being subject to life

d)

The state of not being immortal

11.

Which of these characters doesn't die?

a)

Horatio

b)

Hamlet

c)

Claudius

d)

Gertrude

12.

Which of these characters does die?

a)

Fortinbras

b)

Hamlet

c)

Horatio

d)

Guard1