Hamlet in Literature : Practice MCQ Questions & Answers with Explanations

The King wants Hamlet to be killed as soon as he reaches England.

The King sends money to the King of England to pay for Hamlets upkeep for one year.

The King sends a document saying that Hamlet is mad, and asking that he be imprisoned in the Tower of London until he regains his sanity.

It is a letter thanking the King of England for his help, and inviting him and his wife to visit Denmark the following spring.

He says he has escaped from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern onto a pirate ship, where he is being well treated. He asks Horatio to give letters to the King and Queen, and then to come to see him as quickly as possible.

He tells him about his old friend Yorick.

He expresses his regrets about the way he has treated Ophelia, but says that he has acted this way for a greater good.

He asks Horatio to talk to the Queen for him; he thinks she might listen to Horatio.

He wants to stage a duel and see if Hamlet is mentally aware enough to fight.

He wants the most famous doctors to be brought from all over Europe to observe and study Hamlet, then to make a diagnosis and treatment plan.

He wants to have Hamlet meet Ophelia. He (Polonius) will hide and eavesdrop on the conversation.

He wants the priest to come from Rome to perform an exorcism on Hamlet.

He warns her to stay away from Hamlet and tells her to protect her virtue.

He tells her to take time to look over all of the young men before she makes a choice.

He tells her she would be better off going to a convent than marrying any one of her suitors.

He tells her that Polonius is secretly in love with her.

She has married another man, chosen by her father.

She has gone to a convent in Norway.

She has defied her father and announced that she is going to England to be with Hamlet.

She has gone crazy.

He had seen Horatio and Marcellus meeting secretly in a grove of trees. He was suspicious.

He had seen King Hamlets ghost.

He had seen Hamlet crying and acting crazed.

He had seen the Queen in the arms of an unknown suitor.

Fortinbras wants to conquer Denmark.

Fortinbras wants to receive payment from Hamlet.

Fortinbras wants to avenge his fathers death by killing Hamlet.

Fortinbras wants to regain the lands his father had lost.

He suggests that Hamlet think about going to England to go to the University at Cambridge.

He tells Hamlet to stop grieving for his fathers death, and to think of him as his father.

He tells Hamlet that he should go on a pilgrimage to honor his father.

He tells him that the Queen never really loved King Hamlet, and is only pretending to grieve for him. She secretly loved Claudius all along.

The King tells Laertes not to worry, that he (Laertes) will soon have the appropriate time and place to kill Hamlet.

He offers Laertes money and a piece of land as consolation.

He tells Laertes he will have the priest say a special prayer to make sure Ophelias soul goes to heaven.

He tells Laertes that he (the King) will exile Hamlet instead of killing him.

He calls them sponges, saying they soak up the Kings words, commands and gifts.

He calls them leeches, saying they associate themselves with the King to appear superior to other commoners.

He calls them monsters, saying they are selfish and look for ways to destroy others.

He calls them monkeys, saying they follow the Kings orders without thinking.

He pays a group of thugs to beat them and leave them for dead.

He offers them money and reminds them that the three of them used to be friends. He asks them to stay with him.

He arranged for them to be kidnapped and taken to Poland.

He replaced their letters (which called for Hamlets execution) with letters which called for their executions.

Hamlet decides to go to confession and communion.

He decides to have the doctor examine his mother.

Hamlet decides to go on watch with the guards at midnight to verify Horatios news.

He decides to ready his army for battle.

They decide he is love-sick, and the only cure is to find him another love.

They decide he is not love-sick; rather; he has some other trouble deep in his soul.

They decide his fathers death has left him troubled.

They decide hes not sick at all; hes just being a spoiled brat throwing a tantrum.

The ghost told Hamlet that King Hamlet was murdered by Claudius, and it asked Hamlet to avenge the murder.

The ghost told Hamlet that he was not really the son of King Hamlet. The Queen had lied, and Hamlet was really the son of Claudius.

The ghost told Hamlet that Fortinbras is the rightful ruler, and asks Hamlet to help him gain the throne.

The ghost tells Hamlet that he should take his mother and flee to Sweden, where they will be safe.

He arranges to trade places with the player during the last act of the play.

He arranges to have the lights turned on and the play ruined in the middle of the performance.

He arranges to have several of his own lines put into the play.

He arranges to have the player pay extra attention to the Queen, to get the King jealous.

She has taken poison.

She has died of a broken heart.

She has fallen on her own knife.

She has drowned.

They prepare to take Hamlet to England.

They prepare to try and patch things up between Hamlet and Ophelia.

They prepare to help Hamlet write another play. However in this one, the King has written some lines that accuse Hamlet of the murder of his father.

They prepare to capture Hamlet and imprison him.

He compares himself to an erupting volcano.

He tells them he used to think the world was wonderful, but now he finds differently, and he has no delight in man or woman.

Hamlet has written a poem that he reads to them, describing his sorrows.

He cries and takes them into his confidence, hoping they will align themselves with him against the King.

Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, but not expressed in fancy; rich; not gaudy; For the apparel oft proclaims the man.

Keep you in the rear of your affection. Out of the shot and danger of desire.

To thine own self be true.

Neither a borrower nor a lender be, For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.

He says there is no one to pay for it, since Polonius is already dead.

He agrees and sets about preparing one.

He says she is lucky to be getting as nice of a funeral as she is, considering the nature of her death.

He says that women are inferior beings and only deserve very simple funerals.