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Hamlet Acts I & II

Total questions: 14

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Hamlet was a prince in...

a)

Denmark

b)

England

c)

Italy

d)

Scotland

2.

Who's Hamlet's mother?

a)

Gertrude

b)

Ophelia

3.

Who's the new king?

a)

Claudius

b)

Laertes

c)

Horatio

4.

The ghost asks Hamlet to....

a)

punish the king.

b)

fight Horatio.

c)

break up with Ophelia.

5.

Polonius' daughter is...

a)

Emilia

b)

Martin

c)

Ophelia

d)

Gertrudis

6.

Who is Hamlet's good friend?

a)

Claudius

b)

Horatio

c)

Bernardo

d)

Fortinbras

7.

Who Chief Counselor to the King?

a)

Polonius

b)

Bernardo

c)

Horatio

d)

Claudius

8.

Only men acted in plays at first.

a)

True

b)

False

9.

Who is Ophelia's brother?

a)

Horatio

b)

Laertes

c)

Polonius

d)

Hamlet

10.

Ophelia agrees to "obey" her father.

Obey what, exactly?

a)

To behave better at boarding school

b)

To be home before midnight

c)

To reduce her daily screen time by 20%

d)

To not speak to Hamlet anymore

11.

when a character is alone on stage and tells us how they feel or what they are thinking

a)

aside

b)

soliloquy

c)

tragedy

d)

allusion

12.

when a character is not alone on stage, but the others can't hear what is being said. Usually the character is making a remark about another character

a)

verbal irony

b)

aside

c)

dramatic irony

d)

soliloquy

13.

What does the King and Queen ask Hamlet's friends to do?

a)

spy on Laertes in France

b)

Break Hamlet and Ophelia up

c)

Cheer Hamlet up/Spy on him

14.

The ghost reveals that Hamlet’s father died in what way?

a)

Natural causes

b)

Poison

c)

Stabbed in his sleep

d)

During battle with Fortinbras