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1) What is the name of the Danish castle where Hamlet is set?
Dunsinane

Elsinore

Fredensborg

Rosenborg

2) Who is Hamlet mourning at the start of the play?
His father

His brother

Yorick

His sister

3) Which character speaks the following lines in the play? - 'This above all, to thine own self be true, / And it must follow as the night the day / Thou canst not then be false to any man'
Claudius

Horatio

Polonius

Gertrude

4) Which of the following actors has never starred as Hamlet in a film version of the play?
Mel Gibson

Laurence Olivier

Kenneth Branagh

Michael Caine

5) How many characters die in the final scene of Hamlet?
Two

Three

Four

Five

6) What characteristic is generally considered to be Hamlet's 'fatal flaw'?
Greed

Procrastination

Envy

Ambition

7) How did Hamlet's uncle murder his father?
In a sword fight

By pouring a vial of poison into his ear

By pushing him from a battlement

By poisoning his drink

8) Complete the famous quote from Hamlet, spoken by Hamlet to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern: 'I am but mad north-northwest. When the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a.... '
Handsaw

Herring

Pigeon

Hippopotamus

9) Who wrote the play 'Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead', based on the two minor characters from Hamlet?
William Shakespeare

Alan Bennett

Samuel Beckett

Tom Stoppard

10) What are Hamlet's last words before he dies?
'Go, bid the soldiers shoot'

'The rest is silence'

'To be or not to be, that is the question'

'The King, the King's to blame'
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