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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.

Author
rblayer

Time
2 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
159,107

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
8 / 10

Plays
6154

Awards
Top 35% Quiz

Last 3 plays: LauraMcC (10/10), Guest 98 (5/10), Guest 74 (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

Ophelia

Laertes

Gertrude

Polonius

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Question 3 of 10

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

Sent a loyal servant to murder them.

Had them arrested and imprisoned.

Tearfully forgave them.

Forged their death warrants.

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Question 4 of 10

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

Horatio

Polonius

Marcellus

Bernardo

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Question 5 of 10

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

Claudius

Hamlet

Reynaldo

Laertes

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Question 6 of 10

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

In a sword duel.

He didn't. Gertrude did.

By stabbing him in the back.

By pouring poison into his ear while he slept.

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Question 7 of 10

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

Hamlet

Laertes

Polonius

Claudius

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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 found Claudius kneeling in prayer.

Claudius' guards frightened him away.

He didn't want to make his mother a widow again.

Claudius begged for mercy.

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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 had been seduced by Claudius.

That his mother was a witch.

That she was not Hamlet's real mother.

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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Oct 18 2024 : LauraMcC: 10/10
Oct 17 2024 : Guest 98: 5/10
Oct 17 2024 : Guest 74: 10/10
Oct 15 2024 : Guest 99: 10/10
Oct 14 2024 : Guest 71: 10/10
Oct 11 2024 : Guest 151: 10/10
Oct 04 2024 : GoodwinPD: 10/10
Sep 12 2024 : snhha: 10/10
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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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