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Quiz about Hamlet  Bodies bodies everywhere

Hamlet - Bodies, bodies, everywhere... Quiz


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

A multiple-choice quiz by rblayer. Estimated time: 2 mins.
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Author
rblayer
Time
2 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
159,107
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
8 / 10
Plays
6105
Awards
Top 35% Quiz
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Question 1 of 10
1. Which one of these "Hamlet" characters wasn't even alive at the beginning of the play? Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. Which character went mad before drowning? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. How did Hamlet deal with his disloyal friends Rosencrantz and Guildenstern? Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. Who does Hamlet mistakenly stab through a curtain? Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. Who does not die by the means of a poison-tipped sword? Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. How did Claudius murder Hamlet's father? Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. Who was responsible for Gertrude's death? Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. Why didn't Hamlet kill Claudius the first time he set out to do so? Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. What did Hamlet's father's ghost reveal to him about his mother? Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. Not counting Yorick and the Ghost, who were already dead, what was the final body count in "Hamlet?" Hint





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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. Which one of these "Hamlet" characters wasn't even alive at the beginning of the play?

Answer: Yorick

Yorick, the king's late jester, whose skull was the subject of the famous "Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him..."
2. Which character went mad before drowning?

Answer: Ophelia

Hamlet's brief love interest, Ophelia was the recipient of the famous rejection, "Get thee to a nunnery."
3. How did Hamlet deal with his disloyal friends Rosencrantz and Guildenstern?

Answer: Forged their death warrants.

They were Hamlet's friends from Wittenberg University, who were employed by the king to spy on him.
4. Who does Hamlet mistakenly stab through a curtain?

Answer: Polonius

Polonius is concealed behind a curtain when a confrontation between Hamlet and his mother, Gertrude, turns violent. Polonius moves behind the curtain to help her, and Hamlet, thinking it was his uncle King Claudius, stabs the curtain and kills Polonius.
5. Who does not die by the means of a poison-tipped sword?

Answer: Reynaldo

Reynaldo is a servant of Polonius and actually survives the play.
6. How did Claudius murder Hamlet's father?

Answer: By pouring poison into his ear while he slept.

Poison being the murder instrument of choice in "Hamlet," claiming five lives.
7. Who was responsible for Gertrude's death?

Answer: Claudius

Claudius put poison in a cup of wine that was offered to Hamlet. Hamlet declined, and the poisoned cup of wine was later consumed by Claudius' wife, Gertrude. Some scholars even suggest that Gertrude knew of the poison and intentionally drank from the cup.
8. Why didn't Hamlet kill Claudius the first time he set out to do so?

Answer: He found Claudius kneeling in prayer.

Hamlet thought that Claudius might be praying for forgiveness and he did not want him to go to heaven.
9. What did Hamlet's father's ghost reveal to him about his mother?

Answer: That she had been seduced by Claudius.

Hamlet deeply resented his mother's hasty marriage to Claudius after his father's death.
10. Not counting Yorick and the Ghost, who were already dead, what was the final body count in "Hamlet?"

Answer: 8

Count them. Ophelia (drowned), Polonius (stabbed) Rosencrantz & Guildenstern (death warrants), Gertrude (poison), Laertes, Hamlet and Claudius (poison-tipped sword)
Source: Author rblayer

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