Statistics for Hamlet - Exposition Quiz

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Where is Hamlet set?	Denmark	99%
Whose ghost is it?	Old Hamlet	97%
Who is Hamlet's mother?	Gertrude	77%
Who is Laertes father?	Polonius	76%
Who is Denmark warring with now?	Young Fortinbras (of Norway)	74%
Hamlet says he is "a little more than kin, and less than ____" to Claudius	Kind	73%
What colour clothes is Hamlet seen wearing?	Black	70%
Hamlet hates it when his uncle calls him what?	Son	70%
Laertes asks King Claudius to let him go back to where?	France	59%
What is the ghost wearing?	Armour	56%
According to Hamlet, what kind of sheets has his mother 'posted to'?	Incestuous	41%
According to Elizabethan and Jacobean belief, a ghost cannot speak until...	Spoken to	38%
Prince Hamlet says that Claudius is no more like Hamlet senior than he is to...	Hercules	27%
Which mythological Greek figure does Hamlet compare his mother to "Like _____, all tears"?	Niobe	24%
How did King Hamlet kill Fortinbras senior?	Duel	19%
What royal form of address is Claudius very fond of using?	Our	16%
Hamlet's mother tells him to seek for his noble father where?	In the dust	14%
The army they are fighting against are made up of what?	Bandits	13%
Claudius's flowery speech is called what?	Euphues	10%
At the end of his soliloquy in 1.2, Hamlet decides to what?	Hold his tongue	10%