Hamlet MCQ

1.

2.

What does the ghost ask Hamlet to do?

a.

Forgive Claudius and Gertrude

b.

Kill Claudius and Gertrude

c.

Leave Gertrude and take revenge on Claudius.

all that lives must die,/Passing through nature to eternity.

Who says these lines and to whom?
a.

Polonius to Laertes

b.

Claudius to Hamlet

c.

Gertrude to Hamlet

3.
Let not the royal bed of Denmark be/A couch for luxury and
damned incest.
What does incest refer to?

4.

a.

Claudius marrying his own brothers wife, which is

illegitimate and against Christianity

b.

Claudius murder of the king

c.

The love affair of Hamlet and Ophelia

His will is not his own;/ For he himself is subject to his

birth. Who are the speaker and the listener here? Who does
he refer to?

5.

6.

a.

Polonius to Ophelia; he refers to Hamlet

b.

Laertes to Ophelia; he refers to Hamlet

c.

Polonius to Laertes; he refers to Claudius.

Ill speak to it, though hell itself should gape/ And bid me
hold my peace? Who is the speaker here? What does it refer
to?
a.

Horatius; it refers to the ghost

b.

Hamlet; it refers to the ghost

c.

Marcellus; it refers to the ghost.

She married O, most wicked speed to post/ with such

dexterity to incestuous sheets. What is Hamlet referring to?
a.

Hamlet refers to the fact that Gertrude has committed

incest by marrying her husbands brother Claudius.

b.
Hamlet is angry that she uses the bed sheets that the
king had gifted her.
c.

Hamlet is disappointed that she never loved his father.