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HAMLET TEST 2024: MYERS

Total questions: 64

Worksheet time: 32mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Choose the correct SPEAKER for the quotation: "My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: / Words without thoughts never to heaven go."

a)

Hamlet

b)

Claudius

c)

Ophelia

d)

Horatio

e)

Polonius

2.

Choose the correct SPEAKER for the quotation: "There's rosemary, that's for remembrance; / ...and here's pansies, that's for thoughts."

a)

Hamlet

b)

Claudius

c)

Ophelia

d)

Horatio

e)

Polonius

3.

Choose the correct SPEAKER for the quotation: "There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will."

a)

Hamlet

b)

Claudius

c)

Ophelia

d)

Horatio

e)

Polonius

4.

Choose the correct SPEAKER for the quotation: "Now cracks a noble heart."

a)

Hamlet

b)

Claudius

c)

Ophelia

d)

Horatio

e)

Polonius

5.

Choose the correct SPEAKER for the quotation: "To thine ownself be true, / And it must follow, as the night the day, / Thou canst not then be false to any man."

a)

Hamlet

b)

Claudius

c)

Ophelia

d)

Horatio

e)

Polonius

6.

Choose the character THAT IS DESCRIBED by the quotation: "Such was the very armor he had on when he the ambitious Norway combated."

a)

Hamlet

b)

Ophelia

c)

Ghost

d)

Polonius

e)

Claudius

7.

Choose the character THAT IS DESCRIBED by the quotation: "His doublet all unbraced, no hat upon his head, his stockings foul'd, ungarter'd and down-gyved to his ankle;..."

a)

Hamlet

b)

Ophelia

c)

Ghost

d)

Polonius

e)

Claudius

8.

Choose the character THAT IS DESCRIBED by the quotation: "That great baby you see there is not yet out of his swaddling-clouts."

a)

Hamlet

b)

Ophelia

c)

Ghost

d)

Polonius

e)

Claudius

9.

Choose the character THAT IS DESCRIBED by the quotation: "A bosom black as death! O limed soul, that struggling to be free, art more engaged."

a)

Hamlet

b)

Ophelia

c)

Ghost

d)

Polonius

e)

Claudius

10.

Choose the character THAT IS DESCRIBED by the quotation: "Her clothes spread wide, / And, mermaid-like, while they bore her up..."

a)

Hamlet

b)

Ophelia

c)

Ghost

d)

Polonius

e)

Claudius

11.

Choose the character that matches the description: soldier who is on watch first in the play.

a)

Gertrude

b)

Barnardo

c)

Francisco

d)

Horatio

e)

Voltemand

12.

Choose the character that matches the description: Queen of Denmark.

a)

Gertrude

b)

Barnardo

c)

Francisco

d)

Horatio

e)

Voltemand

13.

Choose the character that matches the description: sends messages to and from Fortinbras.

a)

Gertrude

b)

Barnardo

c)

Francisco

d)

Horatio

e)

Voltemand

14.

Choose the character that matches the description: Soldier who has seen the ghost twice.

a)

Gertrude

b)

Barnardo

c)

Francisco

d)

Horatio

e)

Voltemand

15.

Choose the character that matches the description: Hamlet's friend.

a)

Gertrude

b)

Barnardo

c)

Francisco

d)

Horatio

e)

Voltemand

16.

Choose the character that matches the description: becomes king.

a)

Polonius

b)

Laertes

c)

Reynaldo

d)

Hamlet

e)

Fortinbras

17.

Choose the character that matches the description: a servant to Polonius.

a)

Polonius

b)

Laertes

c)

Reynaldo

d)

Hamlet

e)

Fortinbras

18.

Choose the character that matches the description: Prince of Denmark.

a)

Polonius

b)

Laertes

c)

Reynaldo

d)

Hamlet

e)

Fortinbras

19.

Choose the character that matches the description: Advisor to King Claudius.

a)

Polonius

b)

Laertes

c)

Reynaldo

d)

Hamlet

e)

Fortinbras

20.

Choose the character that matches the description: Ophelia's brother.

a)

Polonius

b)

Laertes

c)

Reynaldo

d)

Hamlet

e)

Fortinbras

21.

Choose the item that matches each description: what kills Gertrude.

(a)  

22.

Choose the item that matches each description: the skull Hamlet recognizes in the graveyard.

(a)  

23.

Choose the item that matches each description: nickname for the "play within the play."

(a)  

24.

Choose the item that matches each description: part of Ophelia's mad scene.

a)
flowers
b)

Yorick

c)

poisoned wine

d)

armor

25.

Choose the item that matches each description: delivered by Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.

a)

poisoned rapier

b)

letters to England

c)

armor

d)

Tortured Poets Department

26.

Choose the item that matches each description: object that identifies the ghost.

(a)  

27.

Choose the item that matches each description: what kills Laertes.

(a)  

28.

Hamlet talks to the ghost and promises revenge.

a)

True

b)

False

29.

The Murder of Gonzago convinces Hamlet and Horatio that the king is guilty.

a)

True

b)

False

30.

Fortinbras is an aggressive young man.

a)

True

b)

False

31.

Laertes returns to his own country because he thinks Ophelia and Hamlet will be married.

a)

True

b)

False

32.

Claudius uses Laertes as a tool to kill Hamlet.

a)

True

b)

False

33.

The ghost is introduced as a means of revealing the truth to Hamlet.

a)

True

b)

False

34.

The queen is fond of Ophelia.

a)

True

b)

False

35.

Claudius sends Hamlet to England to have him killed.

a)

True

b)

False

36.

Horatio kills himself to prove his friendship for Hamlet.

a)

True

b)

False

37.

Claudius never admits his guilt to the audience.

a)

True

b)

False

38.

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are called sponges.

a)

True

b)

False

39.

Gertrude is astonished to see the ghost.

a)

True

b)

False

40.

The ghost disappears when the cock crows.

a)

True

b)

False

41.

Hamlet fears that the ghost may be sent by the devil.

a)

True

b)

False

42.

Like Hamlet, Ophelia only pretends to be mad.

a)

True

b)

False

43.

King Hamlet was killed by poison poured into his ear as he slept in a garden.

a)

True

b)

False

44.

King Hamlet and Claudius were brothers.

a)

True

b)

False

45.

The ghost is in Purgatory waiting to ascend to Heaven.

a)

True

b)

False

46.

Laertes believes that Hamlet is Polonius' murderer.

a)

True

b)

False

47.

Reynaldo goes to France to spy on Laertes.

a)

True

b)

False

48.

Polonius tells Ophelia not to believe in Hamlet's love.

a)

True

b)

False

49.

Polonius says, "Though this is madness, yet there is a method in it."

a)

True

b)

False

50.

The queen knows the wine is poisoned when she drinks it.

a)

True

b)

False

51.

Horatio says to Hamlet, "Good night, sweet prince, and flights of angels sing me to my rest."

a)

True

b)

False

52.

Hamlet carefully planned the murder of Polonius.

a)

True

b)

False

53.

Fortinbras conquers some land in Germany.

a)

True

b)

False

54.

Laertes and Fortinbras seem more decisive and resolute than Hamlet.

a)

True

b)

False

55.

The play presented by the strolling players deals with the murder of a:

a)

duke

b)

prince

c)

king

56.

The ghost is first seen by:

a)

the king and queen

b)

Horatio and Hamlet

c)

two army officers

57.

Fortinbras is a prince of:

a)

Sweden

b)

Norway

c)

Denmark

58.

Polonius thinks Hamlet is:

a)

insane

b)

pretending insanity

c)

making fun of him

59.

Ophelia is:

a)

anxious to be queen

b)

in love with Hamlet

c)

proud and assertive

60.

Hamlet puts on The Mouse Trap to:

a)

obtain evidence of the king's guilt

b)

amuse Ophelia

c)

convince the court that he is insane

61.

Hamlet dies:

a)

without his mother's forgiveness

b)

after being reconciled with his mother

c)

believing his mother is in league with the king

62.

At the end of the story Horatio:

a)

remains alive to tell Hamlet's story

b)

drinks poisoned wine

c)

becomes king

63.

The ghost tells Hamlet

a)

leave the queen alone

b)

that Polonius was involved in the murder plot

c)

that Horatio can be trusted

64.

Laertes plots the duel because of:

a)

grief

b)

ambition

c)

jealousy