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Shakespeare Plays Deaths – Multiple Choice

Click the correct death for the characters in Shakespeare's plays!
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1. Coriolanus
Executed by drowning
Shot by a crossbow in battle
Killed by a mob of his former Volscian allies
Stabbed himself in grief of his brother's death
2. Ophelia
Fell off a tower naked
Strangled by her own hair in sleep
Drowns herself in a state of madness
Stabbed by Hamlet
3. Mercutio
Hanged himself
Killed by Tybalt in a duel
Chokes on an apple while home alone
Accidentally executed instead of a lookalike
4. Antigonus
Chased by a bear
Executed by burning
Fell through a hole on a rope bridge
Caught in a rip current off the coast of Bohemia
5. Thomas Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk
Executed via hanging
Fell off his horse and broke neck
Dies in exile at an unspecified time
Tried to save a child from drowning
6. George, Duke of Clarence
Accidentally stabs himself while training
Dysentery
Stabbed and drowned by murderers working with Richard III
Pushed off a bridge by Queen Margaret
7. The Clown (from Titus Andronicus)
Attempted to poison Titus, but forgot and drank the poison
Executed by hanging
Had his arm cut off and bled out
Stampeded during a revolt
8. Edmund Mortimer, Earl of March
Impaled on a spike
Shirt caught on fire
Slipped and fell off a cliff
Dies imprisoned in the Tower of London
9. Cloten (in Cymbeline)
Beheaded by Guiderius during a sword fight
Exiled to the Isle of Man
Choked to death by Immogen
Shipwreck
10. Cinna the poet (in Julius Caesar)
Mauled by lions in the Colosseum
Killed by a mob for "bad verses" in his poetry
Caught in the middle of Caesar's assassination and stabbed
Crushed while his home collapsed
11. Portia/Porcia (in Julius Caesar)
Suicide by eating hot coals
Executed by crucifixion
Trampled by a donkey
Smothered by all of Cicero's works
12. King John
Mauled by wolves in the forest on a hunting trip
Heartbreak over his wife's death
Poisoned by a monk offstage
Fell into a hole along with his horse
13. King Lear
Greif over Cordelia's hanging
Executed by Edmund
Froze to death during the winter
Exhaustion from walking too much
14. Polonius
Hit with a rock while swimming and drowned
Heart attack
Plague
Stabbed by Hamlet through a tapestry
15. Desdemona
Smothered by a pillow
Faints and becomes a statue
Dragged around Troy by a chariot
Jumping off the parapet
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Level 60
Apr 21, 2025
Please ignore the fact that the Clown uses "from" instead of "in." I didn't notice.