Hamlet - Important Quotes MCQs

Hamlet important quotes- MCQs:

1. How many soliloquies are there by Hamlet in the play?

a. Only 1

b. 7

c. 6

d. 4

 

2. Who says, "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark (Act-I, Scene-4)"?

a. Bernardo

b. Marcellus

c. Francisco

d. Horatio

 

3. The phrase “Long live the king!” is used by ……… (Act-1, Scene-1)?

a. Horatio to Hamlet

b. Bernardo to Francisco

c. Bernardo to Francisco

d. Hamlet to Horatio

 

4. The first line spoken by Hamlet in the Play is ……..

a. Denmark is a prison

b. That one may smile and smile and be a villain.

c. I am too much i' the sun

d. "A little more than kin, and less than kind"

 

5. “Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice” is addressed to……(Act I, Scene-3?

a. Horatio

b. Laertes

c. Ophelia

d. Hamlet

 

6. Fill in the blank: “Neither a borrower nor a lender be, For loan oft loses both itself and ………….” (famous line by Polonius, Act-I, Sce-3)

a. enemy

b. lender

c. borrower

d. friend

 

7. “Brevity is the soul of wit (Act-II, Sce-2)” is a famous line by Polonius about…

a. Instruction to Ophelia

b. Instruction to Laertes

c. Hamlet’s madness

d. Advice to King Claudius

 

8. The famous soliloquy "To be, or not to be(Act-III,Sce-1)" is Hamlet’s……… ?

a. 4th soliloquy

b. 7th soliloquy

c. 1st soliloquy

d. 3rd soliloquy

 

9. Who is the women in the quote: “O most pernicious woman! O villain, villain, smiling damned villain” (Act-I, Sce-5)

a. Gertrude

b. Ophelia

c. All women in general

d. Both A and B

 

10. “There are more things in ……. and ……., Horatio, Than are dreamt of in our philosophy.” (Act-I, Sce-5)

a. Heaven and Hell

b. Heaven and Earth

c. Denmark and Norway

d. Tragedy and Comedy

 

11. The final words of Hamlet in the play are:

a. Justice done

b. Long live the king

c. The rest is silence

d. Wish you good luck, Horatio!

 

12. These lines are spoken by: "That he's mad, 'tis true, 'tis true 'tis pity, And pity 'tis, 'tis true—a foolish figure(Act-II, Sce-2)'

a. Claudius

b. Gertrude

c. Ophelia

d. Polonius

 

13. The figure of speech in famous line "Denmark is a prison (Act-II, Sce-2)"

a. Metaphor

b. Pun

c. Irony

d. simile

 

14. Who is the speaker of this: “Seneca cannot be too heavy, nor Plautus too light (Act-II, Sce-2)"

a. Hamlet

b. Horatio

c. King Claudius

d. Polonius

 

15. “I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw (Act-II, Sce-2)".” is addressed to

a. Francisco and Bernardo

b. King and Queen

c. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

d. Ophelia and Laertes

 

16. “To die, to sleep – To sleep, perchance to dream – ay, there’s the rub, For in this sleep of death what dreams may come; (Act-II, Sce-1)"” is part of which soliloquy

a. To be or not to be

b. O all you host of heaven!

c. Neither a lender, nor a borrower

d. What a piece of work is a man!

 

17. “To be or Not to be…” appears in

a. Act-I, Sce-3

b. Act-III, Sce-1

c. Act-V, Sce-1

d. Act-II, Sce-3

 

18. Whom did Hamlet calls as “fishmonger”

a. Claudius

b. Laertes

c. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

d. Polonius

 

19. “words, words, words” is a famous line by Hamlet to Polonius appears in

a. Act-IV, Sce-2

b. Act-I, Sce-3

c. Act-III, Sce-1

d. Act-II, Sce-2

 

20. Who says “Though this be madness, yet there is method in it” (Act-II, Sce-2)

a. Polonius

b. Claudius

c. Guildenstern

d. Rosencrantz

 

21. Famous line “There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.” by Hamlet is addressed to

a. Horatio

b. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

c. Ophelia

d. Laertes

 

 

22. “The grave digger scene” in Hamlet is an example of…..

a. Interlude

b. Play within play

c. Comic relief

d. Dramatic Irony

 

23. Hamlet’s famous line “A dream itself is but a shadow” addressed to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern appears in

a. Act-II, Sce-3

b. Act-II, Sce-4

c. Act-II, Sce-1

d. Act-II, Sce-2

 

24. “I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, .....I know a hawk from a handsaw.” is addressed to

a. Claudius and Polonius

b. Claudius and Gertrude

c. Francisco and Bernardo

d. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

 

25. "For they say, an old man is twice a child” (Act-II, Sce-2) is spoken by

a. Rosencrantz

b. Guildenstern

c. Hamlet

d. Polonius

 

26. Hamlet’s 3rd soliloquy “O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I ....What Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba.....But I am pigeon livered and lack gall” is in

a. Act-I, Sce-3

b. Act-III, Sce-1

c. Act-IV, Sce-1

d. Act-II, Sce-2

 

27. Hamlet’s conversation with Captain “Two thousand souls and Twenty thousand ducats”  is about

a. Norway’s invasion of Poland

b. Poland’s invasion of Norway

c. England’s invasion of France

d. Norway’s invasion of Denmark

 

28. “Oh my offence is rank, it smells to heaven” famous line by Claudius is in

a. Act-IV, Sce-1

b. Act-III, Sce-1

c. Act-IV, Sce-3

d. Act-III, Sce-3

 

29. “My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.” in Act-III, Sce-3 are spoken by

a. Claudius

b. Hamlet

c. Laertes

d. Gertrude

 

30. Figure of speech in “Now might I do it pat, now he is praying; And now I'll don't, And so he goes to heaven” is

a. Pun

b. Oxymoron

c. Dramatic Irony

d. Metaphor

 

31. Who is rat in "How now! a rat? Dead, for a ducat, dead!” (Act-III, Sce-4)

a. Polonius

b. Gertrude

c. Rosencrantz

d. Claudius

 

32. Who says "O speak to me no more; these words, like daggers, enter in mine years; No more sweet Hamlet!"

a. Ophelia

b. Claudius

c. Gertrude

d. Horatio

 

33. Figure of speech in "O Hamlet, thou hast cleft my heart in twain“ (Gertrude to Hamlet, Act III, Scene 4) is

a. Oxymoron

b. Irony

c. Hyperbole

d. Understatement

 

34.In Act-IV, Sce-2, 

Claudius: At supper! Where 

Hamlet: Not where he eats, but where he is eaten .

Who is he here?

a. Polonius

b. Horatio

c. Rosencrantz

d. Laertes

 

35. Figure of speech in “When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions”

a. Irony

b. Hyperbole

c. Personification

d. Apostrophe

 

36. Who says “When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions” (Act-IV, Sce-5)

a. Hamlet

b. Gertrude

c. Polonius

d. King Claudius

 

37. Hamlet’s soliloquy “Frailty thy name is woman” about Gertrude is in

a. Act-I, Sce-1

b. Act-I, Sce-2

c. Act-II, Sce-2

d. Act-II, Sce-1

 

38. Ophelia’s song "There's a daisy: I would give you Some violets, but they withered all when my father Died” is in

a. Act-IV, Sce-3

b. Act-IV, Sce-1

c. Act-IV, Sce-2

d. Act-IV, Sce-5

 

39. “Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: A fellow of infinite jest.” (Hamlet, act-5 sce-1). Who is Yorick?

a. Courtier

b. Soldier

c. Physician

d. Clown

 

40. "I loved Ophelia: …… brothers could not, with all their quantity of love” (Hamlet, act 5 scene 1)

a. hundred thousand

b. thousand

c. ten thousand

d. forty thousand

 

41. "There is a special providence in the fall of a sparrow, If it be now, ’tis not to come: if it be not to come, it will be now: if it be not now, yet it will come:  the readiness is all.” is in

a. Act-V, Sce-2

b. Act-V, Sce-4

c. Act-V, Sce-3

d. Act-V, Sce-5

 

42. “I am more an antique Roman than a Dane.” Who says it to whom?

a. Gertrude to Claudius

b. Claudius to Gertrude

c. Horatio to Hamlet

d. Hamlet to Horatio

 

43. “Now cracks a noble heart. Good[1]night, sweet prince; And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.” is in

a. Act-V, Sce-2

b. Act-V, Sce-1

c. a. Act-V, Sce-3

d. a. Act-V, Sce-4

 

44. Who says, “Why, as a woodcock to mine own springe, Osric; I am justly kill'd with mine own treachery.”

a. Hamlet

b. Horatio

c. Claudius

d. Laertes

 

45. “I must be cruel only to be kind; Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.”(Act-III, Sce-4) is by

a. Hamlet

b. Polonius

c. King Hamlet

d. Claudius

 

46. Hamlet’s line about Polonius dead body: "The body is with the King, but the King is not with the body.”  is addressed to

a. Gertrude

b. Claudius

c. Horatio

d. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

 

47. “Get thee to a Nunnery, go: farewell Or , if thou wilt needs marry, marry a fool” by Hamlet to Ophelia is in

a. Act-III, Sce-2

b.Act-III, Sce-1

c. Act-III, Sce-3

d. Act-III, Sce-4

 

48. Hamlet’s famous line “Denmark is a prison” is in

a. Act-III, Sce-2

b. Act-IV, Sce-2

c. Act-I, Sce-2

d. Act-II, Sce-2

 

49. Hamlet’s words “What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty! are in

a. Act-II, Sce-2

b. Act-II, Sce-3

c. Act-II, Sce-1

d. Act-II, Sce-4

 

50. Hamlet’s words “God hath given you one face, and you make yourself another.” (Act-III, Sce-1) is addressed to

a. Claudius

b. Polonius

c. Horatio

d. Ophelia

 

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