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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.

Author
rblayer

Time
2 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
159,107

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
8 / 10

Plays
6114

Awards
Top 35% Quiz

Last 3 plays: Guest 69 (7/10), Guest 98 (5/10), AndrewSiv (10/10).

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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

Marcellus

Young Fortinbras

Bernardo

Yorick

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Question 2 of 10

2. Which character went mad before drowning? Hint

Gertrude

Ophelia

Laertes

Polonius

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Question 3 of 10

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

Had them arrested and imprisoned.

Sent a loyal servant to murder them.

Forged their death warrants.

Tearfully forgave them.

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Question 4 of 10

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

Polonius

Marcellus

Horatio

Bernardo

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Question 5 of 10

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

Hamlet

Reynaldo

Laertes

Claudius

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Question 6 of 10

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

He didn't. Gertrude did.

In a sword duel.

By pouring poison into his ear while he slept.

By stabbing him in the back.

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Question 7 of 10

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

Laertes

Hamlet

Claudius

Polonius

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Question 8 of 10

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

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.

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Question 9 of 10

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

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.

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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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