HomeQuizShakespeare's Hamlet Practice Literature MCQ Questions Quiz with Answers
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1. In what country does Hamlet primarily take place?

2. Who do the guards first tell about the ghost that has appeared before them?

3. Who is the Prince of Norway?

4. Who is Hamlet in love with?

5. How is Claudius related to Hamlet?

6. How did Claudius kill Hamlet's father, the king?

7. Who returns as a ghost and tells Hamlet to kill Claudius?

8. Who is Polonius?

9. Who are the two clowns?

10. What does Claudius ask Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to do?

11. What country does Fortinbras decide to invade instead of Denmark?

12. What does Polonius initially think caused Hamlet's madness?

13. Why does Hamlet decide to stage the murder of his father?

14. Who listens behind a curtain to Hamlet and Ophelia's meeting?

15. "Who says ""To be or not to be..""?"

16. What does Claudius do when the actor pours the poison into the king's ear during the play?

17. Why does Hamlet not kill the king while the king is praying?

18. Who overhears the meeting between Hamlet and Gertrude?

19. Who does Hamlet kill when he finds him spying?

20. Who vows to avenge Polonius' death?

21. How does Hamlet get rid of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern?

22. Who suggests that Laertes provoke Hamlet into a duel?

23. How did Ophelia die?

24. Why was Hamlet saddened to find Yorick's skull when talking to the grave diggers?

25. Why does Hamlet not make it to England?

26. How do Laertes and Claudius plan to fix the duel between Claudius and Hamlet?

27. Who drinks from the poison goblet that Claudius gives to Hamlet?

28. Who was Reynaldo?

29. Who does not die in the final scene?

30. Who ends up ruler of Denmark at the end of the play?