Hamlet Test 100
Hamlet Test 100
Hamlet Test 100
Record all your answers on the bubble sheet provided. Do NOT make any marks on this test. You may use your
books for this test. The page numbers should correspond to your text.
3. Fortinbras serves as a foil to Hamlet in all of I shall the effect of this good lesson keep
the following ways EXCEPT: As watchman to my heart. But, good my
(A) Both men’s fathers were kings brother,
(B) Both are students at the University of Do not, as some ungracious pastors do,
Wittenberg Show me the steep and thorny way to
(C) Both men’s fathers are dead heaven,
(D) Both of their countries are presently ruled Whiles, like a puff’d and reckless libertine,
by their uncles Himself the primrose path of dalliance
treads,
4. In Claudius’s opening speech (p. 34), in the And reaks not his own rede.
following lines he utilizes what rhetorical
device? (A) Polonius (B) Laertes (C) Ophelia
(D) Hamlet
Therefore our sometime sister, now our queen,
Th’ imperial jointress to this warlike state, 8. In Hamlet’s soliloquy on pages 38 – 39, which
Have we, as ‘twere with a defeated joy, of the following marks the transition between
With an auspicious, and a dropping eye, Hamlet’s generalization about the world and
With mirth in funeral, and with dirge in his explication of those generalities?
marriage, (A) “Fie on ‘t! Ah fie!” (l. 135)
In equal scale weighing delight and dole, (B) “Heaven and earth! Must I remember?”
Taken to wife; (ll. 8-14) (ll. 142 – 143)
(C) “That it should come to this!” (l. 137)
(A) oxymoron (D) “Frailty, thy name is woman!” (l. 146)
(B) metonymy
(C) antithesis 9. It is clear from this soliloquy that Hamlet’s
(D) personification anguish comes mostly from
(A) his father’s death
5. In Hamlet’s first soliloquy (p. 38-39), he (B) his uncle’s sitting on the throne
employs a number of classical allusions. (C) his uncle treatment of him
Which of the following is not an accurate (D) his mother’s remarriage
assessment of how he uses the allusion?
(A) He says he is as strong as Hercules. (l. 10. Hamlet’s melancholy in this soliloquy can be
153) attributed to
(B) Gertrude’s grief resembled that of Niobe. (A) fear of his uncle
(l. 149) (B) resentment of his uncle
(C) King Claudius is like a satyr. (l. 140) (C) youthful disillusionment
(D) King Hamlet is like Hyperion. (l. 140) (D) jealousy of his uncle’s position of power
11. The speech beginning “Seems, Madam? Nay, 17. The one piece of Polonius’s advice to Laertes
it is”(l. 76-78, p. 36) points to the theme which that comes across as particularly insincere in
involves view of Polonius’s own statements and
(A) scornful pride in politics character is
(B) strained relationships brought out by (A) “Give every man thine ear, but few thy
crises voice.” (l. 68, page 44)
(C) a hostile pattern established early, then (B) “Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy/But
spreading not expressed in fancy . . . “ (ll. 70-71, pa.
(D) the difference between a thing’s 44)
appearance and its reality (C) “Neither a borrower nor a lender be” (l.
75, p. 45)
12. The first six lines of Hamlet’s speech to the (D) “. . . to thin own self be true” (l. 78, p. 45)
ghost (l. 39 – 45, p. 48) suggest the possibility
that 18. In her encounters with her brother and her
(A) the ghost is a figment of Hamlet’s father, Ophelia comes across as
overwrought imagination (A) rebellious, headstrong, and stubborn
(B) the ghost may be a real person (B) flighty insincere, and silly
(C) the ghost may be an evil “impersonator,” (C) courageous, brave and noble
a disguised demon (D) sweet, innocent, and submissive
(D) the ghost may disappear at an moment
19. In the encounter with his friend Horatio in
13. The one thing that most outrages the ghost of scenes iv and v, pp. 47 – 56, Hamlet
Old Hamlet in lines 32 – 90, pp. 51 – 52) is (A) continues consistently to play the
(A) Hamlet’s not being willing to seek woebegone melancholic
revenge on his own (B) gives a brief glimpse of the normal
(B) That he has been murdered Hamlet
(C) That his wife betrayed him (C) reveals his belief that his uncle murdered
(D) That his brother can tell Hamlet what to his father
do (D) tries to convince Horatio to return to
Wittenburg
14. The tone of the speech “O cursed spite,/that
ever I was born to set it right!” (lines 188-89, 20. In Hamlet’s second soliloquy (p. 53), he
page. 56) is employs the language of a scholar or student.
(A) calm determination All of the following lines demonstrate this
(B) frenzied fear language EXCEPT:
(C) bitter frustration (A) “Yes, from the table of my memory (l. 98)
(D) angry sarcasm (B) “Within the book and volume of my
brain.” (l. 103)
15. In Hamlet’s speech (lines 165 – 80, pp. 55-56), (C) “In this distracted globe. Remember
he asks Horatio thee!” (l. 97)
(A) not to give him away if he should behave (D) “O most pernicious woman!” (l. 105)
strange
(B) to stand by him in his quest for vengeance ACT II
(C) to forgive him for the murders he must
carry out 21. In Scene I, Polonius tells Reynaldo that he
(D) to believe that the ghost was indeed his may accuse Laertes of being guilty of all of the
father’s following EXCEPT:
(A) Swearing
16. Laertes’ warnings to Ophelia are most likely (B) Gambling
(A) an accurate description of how Hamlet (C) Fencing
might treat her (D) Drinking
(B) partially true as to a prince’s freedom to (E) Drabbing
choose a wife
(C) prompted by jealousy of Hamlet
(D) given because he, not Ophelia, knows the
real Hamlet
22. Ophelia’s description of Hamlet’s “antic (B) the courtly lover of Medieval Romance
disposition” includes all of the following (C) the playwright
EXCEPT: (D) the revenging warrior
(A) “his doublet all unbrac’d”
(B) “no hat upon his head” 30. The Polonius-Reynaldo dialogue in Act II,
(C) “his stockins fouled, Ungart’red, and Scene I (pp. 56-58) serves two purposes:
down-gyved to his ankel,” (A) it moves the plot of Hamlet’s revenge
(D) “and with a look so piteous in purport/As story and brings in Polonius’ fears for his
if he had been loosed out of hell” own son
(E) “armed at point exactly, cap-a-pe” (B) it helps to characterize Polonius as a
loving father and establishes a paralleled
23. The messengers have returned and report that story of revenge
Fortinbras needs to march through Denmark (C) it introduces the “spy” theme and exposes
on his way to Polonius as an inveterate meddler
(A) Norway (D) it shows that Polonius knows who killed
(B) Poland King Hamlet and sends Reynaldo out to
(C) Germany get revenge
(D) Finland
(E) France 31. Ophelia tells her father in Scene i that Hamlet
is behaving
24. Hamlet calls Polonius in Scene ii (A) like the gentleman she has always know
(A) a fishmonger (B) like a madman
(B) a liar (C) as if he feared being murdered
(C) an honest man (D) as if he thought she had killed his father
(D) a satirical rogue
32. Polonius’s line 99, (p. 60), “This is the very
25. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern believe that ecstasy of Love,” means
what has “put [Hamlet] So much from th’ (A) Hamlet is distraught over Old Hamlet’s
understanding of himself” is death
(A) thwarted ambition (B) Gertrude’s remarriage has crazed Hamlet
(B) his father’s death (C) Hamlet loves Ophelia and feigns madness
(C) Ophelia’s rejection for her sympathy
(D) His mother’s “o’er hasty marriage” (D) Hamlet has been crazed by Ophelia’s
rejection of him
26. Hamlet asks the player to recite a speech from
(A) Oedipus Rex 33. The tone of Gertrude’s statement (ll. 56-57,
(B) The Canterbury Tales page 62), “I doubt it is no other but the
(C) Aeneas’ tale to Dido main/His father’s death and our o’erhasty
(D) David’s lament to Bathsheba marriage” is one of
(A) bitter sarcasm
27. In the speech, Old Priam is killed by (B) fearful questioning
(A) Hector (C) doubtful hope
(B) Achilles (D) melancholy resignation
(C) “the Hyrcanian beast”
(D) Pyrrhus 34. In Polonius’ lines 90-92, (p. 63), the statement
“brevity is the soul of wit” is, in view of what
28. Hamlet requests the players to present what we know about Polonius,
play? (A) an ironic statement
(A) King Lear (B) a revelation of his true character
(B) The Murder of Gonzago (C) a rash (hasty) statement
(C) The Mousetrap (D) a wise and accurate statement
(D) Tamburlaine
51. The characteristic of Polonius that has most 57. Hamlet refers to whom as “adders fang’d”?
directly led to his death is (A) Laertes and Polonius
(A) his nosiness and meddling (B) Claudius and Polonius
(B) his poor judgment (C) Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
(C) his insincerity or shallowness (D) Marcellus and Reynaldo
(D) his cruelty to Ophelia
58. What is “the primal eldest curse”?
52. Lines 66-67, p. 104 mean (A) patricide
(A) “Could you help kill my father and marry (B) fratricide
my uncle?” (C) matricide
(B) “Could you leave the security of a (D) suicide
marriage to my father for the insecurity of
marriage to my uncle?”
(C) “Could you leave the high regard with
which my father held you for the shameful
treatment from my uncle?”
59. In the Bedroom scene (scene iv), Hamlet (D) realization of his following among the
forces Gertrude to look at two pictures: Danes
(A) one of England and one of Denmark
(B) one of Claudius and one of King Hamlet 65. Although Hamlet believes that Fortinbras’
(C) one of Hamlet and one of Laertes foray into Poland is less than admirable, he
(D) one of herself and one of the virgin can still admire Fortinbras because
Ophelia (A) Fortinbras is a prince and a gentleman
(B) He sees honor as justification for some
60. At the end of the bedroom scene, Hamlet asks impractical actions
his mother (C) He views Fortinbras’ ambition as better
(A) not to tell Claudius that he killed Polonius than his cowardice
(B) not to tell Laertes who killed Polonius (D) He feels loyal sons should carry out
(C) not to go to Claudius’ bed that night revenge
(D) not to allow Claudius to send him to
England 66. That Queen Gertrude says in line 1 of scene v
(p. 116), “I will not speak to her” (Ophelia)
ACT IV implies
61. Hamlet’s attitude toward the dead Polonius (A) that Gertrude begins to see and fear the
comes across in Scene iii as whole chain of events precipitating from
(A) true repentance for having killed him her marriage
(B) deep respect for Polonius as member of (B) that she feels so guilty about Polonius’
the Danish court death that she cannot face his daughter
(C) anger at him for having been in a position (C) that she does not want to be reminded of
to be killed Hamlet’s madness
(D) amused derision at him (D) that Gertrude truly fears Ophelia and her
madness
62. The line “He’s (Hamlet is) loved of the
distracted multitudes” (scene iii, line 4, p. 112) 67. In Ophelia’s mad ramblings (p. 117-118), she
explains why speaks of
(A) Claudius must send Hamlet to England to (A) sexual seduction
have him killed instead of openly having (B) broken wedding promises
him executed for Polonius’s murder (C) ominous anticipation of Laertes’ reaction
(B) Gertrude keeps her son’s sanity a secret so (D) all of these
that no one will know why he really (E) b and c
murdered Polonius
(C) Claudius openly condemns Hamlet 68. When Laertes bursts into the King’s presence
(D) Hamlet has deceived everyone into not in scene v, who does he think is responsible
realizing that he actually murdered for his father’s death?
Polonius (A) Hamlet
(B) Gertrude
63. The traditional concept of revenge that (C) Fortinbras
Fortinbras epitomized and that Hamlet felt he (D) Claudius
had to live up to was that
(A) revenge is a necessary evil 69. Laertes and Hamlet are alike in that
(B) revenge is an outmoded medieval custom (A) both are quick to act
(C) revenge is a sacred honor (B) both have feigned madness
(D) revenge is a curse (C) both seek revenge for their fathers’ deaths
(D) both have escaped captivity to return to
64. What inspires Hamlet’s soliloquy at the end of Denmark
scene iv?
(A) anger at his procrastination
(B) recalling the players showing such strong
emotion
(C) the account of Fortinbras’ foray into
Poland
70. The information that adds credibility to ACT V
Hamlet’s willingness to enter a fencing match
with Laertes is that 76. The comic dialogue between the two
(A) Hamlet’s envy of Laertes’ fencing ability gravediggers in Scene I
has been known (A) furthers the play’s action with references
(B) Hamlet blamed Laertes for Ophelia’s to death
madness (B) contrasts the sad occasion, making
(C) Hamlet blamed Laertes for Ophelia’s Ophelia’s probable suicide all the more
rejecting him moving
(D) Hamlet had been champion fencer until (C) sets the scene for Hamlet’s entrance so
Laertes returned that his views of death will not seem so
callous
71. All of the following people receive letters in (D) allows Shakespeare to show the stupidity
Act IV EXCEPT: of the masses
(A) Claudius
(B) Horatio 77. Hamlet’s brooding on death beside Ophelia’s
(C) King of England grave is inoffensive in its wittiness only
(D) Polonius because
(A) the gravediggers have been so offensive
72. In Hamlet’s sixth soliloquy in scene iv, he says (B) he is still feigning madness
that if man’s life is no more than eating and (C) he does not know whose grave it is
sleeping, he is no better than (D) his statements are universal truths
(A) English people
(B) Beasts 78. The lines to Yorick’s skull (172-182, p. 136-
(C) Danskers 137)
(D) Pagans (A) contrast all things living to all things dead
(B) contrast Hamlet’s madness to his sanity
73. When Claudius says on page 119, lines 75-94, (C) contrast Hamlet’s happy childhood
that sorrows come “in battalions,” he is memory of Yorick with the disgust the
referring to all of the following EXCEPT: skull inspires in him
(A) Laertes’ return from France (D) contrasts Hamlet’s present depression
(B) Ophelia’s insanity with his earlier zest for life
(C) Hamlet’s return to Denmark
(D) Polonius’ death 79. The Queen’s lines (270-274, p. 140) are
intended to
74. Who speaks these lines in Act IV? (A) protect Hamlet by saying he is mad
Let this be so. (B) give Hamlet time to calm himself
His means of death, his obscure funeral – (C) explain to Laertes that Hamlet really did
No trophy, sword, nor hatchment o’er his love Ophelia
bones, (D) prevent the King from having Hamlet
No noble rite nor formal ostentation – arrested
Cry to be heard, as ‘twere from heaven to
earth, 80. What Hamlet says (57-62, p. 142) in response
That I must call’t in question. to Horatio’s “So Guildenstern and Rosencrantz
(A) Polonius go to ‘t” shows
(B) Laertes (A) contempt for them reminiscent of his
(C) Claudius attitude toward Polonius’ death
(D) Horatio (B) remorse that his friends of his “so young
days” had to die
75. Who tells Claudius and Laertes about the (C) fear this his rashness will gain control of
circumstances surrounding Ophelia’s death? him
(A) Horatio (B) a messenger (D) curiosity as to how Claudius will react
(C) Marcellus (D) Queen Gertrude
81. Lines 75-78, p. 143 mean that (C) resignation
(A) Hamlet is sorry he killed Polonius (D) bitterness
(B) He recognizes a parallel between his
cause and Laertes’ 84. The line which anticipates Laertes’ plea for
(C) He and Laertes are both pawns of absolution at the moment of his death is
Claudius (A) line 263, p. 150
(D) He knows neither of the two can win in a (B) line 298, p. 151
duel (C) line 278, p. 150
(D) line 311, p. 151
82. Osric’s most obvious characteristic is his
(A) obsequiousness (servility) 85. It is fitting that Fortinbras speak last in the
(B) courage in standing up to Hamlet play because
(C) wisdom (A) he has returned victorious from Poland
(D) loyalty to Claudius (B) he will likely succeed to the throne of
Denmark
83. The tone of Hamlet’s speech (208-226, p. 148) (C) he admires Hamlet more than anyone else
is one of in the play
(A) despair (D) only he knew the true chain of events.
(B) irony
86. “My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: / Words A. Hamlet
without thoughts never to heaven go.”
87. “There’s rosemary, that’s for remembrance;/ . . . and B. Claudius
here’s pansies, that’s for thoughts.”
88. “There’s a divinity that shapes our ends, / Rough-hew C. Ophelia
them how we will.”
89. “Now cracks a noble heart.” D. Horatio
90. “To thine ownself be true, / And it must follow, as the E. Polonius
night the day, / Thou canst not then be false to any man.”
Matching – Part II
Choose the character that is described by each quotation.