A. England
B. Venice
C. Denmark
D. Maine
Related Mcqs:
- In “Hamlet,” who says that “something is rotten in the state of Denmark” ?
A. Claudius
B. Horatio
C. Hamlet
D. Marcellus - According to Anthony DiMatteo’s “Shakespeare and the Public Discourse of Sovereignty: ’Reason of State’ in ’Hamlet’”, how does Shakespeare tend to present political rulers in Hamlet?
A. Shakespeare presents political rulers as flawless, perfect human beings.
B. Shakespeare presents political rulers as often meeting ruinous and violent endings.
C. Shakespeare only presents fictional political rulers and does not explore any political realities.
D. Shakespeare considers all political rulers to be corrupt. - In Dr. R. Allen Shoaf’s article, “’Hamlet’: Like Mother, Like Son”, Shoaf argues which of the following points about the relationship between Hamlet and his mother ?
A. Hamlet is placed in a position that can be conceptualized as feminine.
B. Hamlet despises his mother and suspects she has killed his father.
C. Hamlet is entirely masculinized throughout the play, and thus, is ultimately unlike his mother in terms of his position in the play.
D. Hamlet has a personality disorder. - How many soliloquies are spoken by Hamlet in the play Hamlet ?
A. Nine
B. Five
C. Seven
D. Three - In “Hamlet,” what is Hamlet’s uncle’s name ?
A. Polonius
B. Claudius
C. Horatio
D. Fortinbras - In Shakespeare’s “Hamlet”, what does Hamlet mean when he states that, “there is more in heaven and earth … than are dreamt of in your philosophy” ?
A. There is such a thing as an afterlife.
B. Dreams always tell the truth.
C. There are some aspects of existence that cannot be explained through reason.
D. Heaven exists on earth. - Hamlet’s famous speech ‘To be,or not to be; that is the question’ occurs in ?
A. Act II, Scene I
B. Act III, Scene III
C. Act IV, Scene III
D. Act III, Scene I - Complete the following sentence. Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale” is characteristically Romantic because of_____________?
A. its focus on his lost love.
B. its rejection of scientific progress.
C. its elaboration of the intersecting importance of nature and the imagination.
D. its development of elements from national folklore. - Marlowe’s poem ’The Passionate Shepherd to His Love’ begins with the line “Come live with me and be my love”; which other English author wrote a famous poem beginning with this line ?
A. William Shakespeare
B. Thomas Kyd
C. John Dryden
D. John Donne - Which of the following statements best summarizes the main idea behind Anthony DiMatteo’s essay, “Shakespeare and the Public Discourse of Sovereignty: ’Reason of State’ in ’Hamlet’” ?
A. Hamlet is a tragedy focusing on the plight of the early-modern self.
B. Hamlet is a tragedy that reflects Shakespeare’s own political circumstances.
C. Hamlet is a tragedy that focuses on the Elizabethan era’s loss of faith in humanity’s ability to govern itself without violence.
D. Hamlet is a tragedy that reflects upon enlightened and progressive political systems that developed during Shakespeare’s time.
