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Hamlet - Bodies, bodies, everywhere...

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Hamlet Bodies bodies everywhere game quiz
"If 'body count' is the measure of a 'tragedy,' "Hamlet" scores an A+. How well do you know the Shakespearean 'unliving?'"

15 Points Per Correct Answer - No time limit  



1. Which one of these "Hamlet" characters wasn't even alive at the beginning of the play?
    Yorick
    Bernardo
    Marcellus
    Young Fortinbras


2. Which character went mad before drowning?
    Ophelia
    Laertes
    Gertrude
    Polonius


3. How did Hamlet deal with his disloyal friends Rosencrantz and Guildenstern?
    Had them arrested and imprisoned.
    Sent a loyal servant to murder them.
    Forged their death warrants.
    Tearfully forgave them.


4. Who does Hamlet mistakenly stab through a curtain?
    Polonius
    Marcellus
    Horatio
    Bernardo


5. Who does not die by the means of a poison-tipped sword?
    Hamlet
    Reynaldo
    Laertes
    Claudius


6. How did Claudius murder Hamlet's father?
    By pouring poison into his ear while he slept.
    By stabbing him in the back.
    In a sword duel.
    He didn't. Gertrude did.


7. Who was responsible for Gertrude's death?
    Claudius
    Polonius
    Hamlet
    Laertes


8. Why didn't Hamlet kill Claudius the first time he set out to do so?
    He didn't want to make his mother a widow again.
    Claudius begged for mercy.
    Claudius' guards frightened him away.
    He found Claudius kneeling in prayer.


9. What did Hamlet's father's ghost reveal to him about his mother?
    That she was not Hamlet's real mother.
    That she had been seduced by Claudius.
    That his mother was a witch.
    That Osric was Hamlet's half-brother by a past affair of his mother.


10. Not counting Yorick and the Ghost, who were already dead, what was the final body count in "Hamlet?"
    8
    11
    5
    6


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Compiled Jun 28 12