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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
Stabbed himself in grief of his brother's death
Killed by a mob of his former Volscian allies
Executed by drowning
Shot by a crossbow in battle
2. Ophelia
Drowns herself in a state of madness
Fell off a tower naked
Stabbed by Hamlet
Strangled by her own hair in sleep
3. Mercutio
Accidentally executed instead of a lookalike
Chokes on an apple while home alone
Killed by Tybalt in a duel
Hanged himself
4. Antigonus
Executed by burning
Caught in a rip current off the coast of Bohemia
Fell through a hole on a rope bridge
Chased by a bear
5. Thomas Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk
Dies in exile at an unspecified time
Executed via hanging
Fell off his horse and broke neck
Tried to save a child from drowning
6. George, Duke of Clarence
Stabbed and drowned by murderers working with Richard III
Accidentally stabs himself while training
Dysentery
Pushed off a bridge by Queen Margaret
7. The Clown (from Titus Andronicus)
Stampeded during a revolt
Executed by hanging
Attempted to poison Titus, but forgot and drank the poison
Had his arm cut off and bled out
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)
Exiled to the Isle of Man
Shipwreck
Beheaded by Guiderius during a sword fight
Choked to death by Immogen
10. Cinna the poet (in Julius Caesar)
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
Mauled by lions in the Colosseum
11. Portia/Porcia (in Julius Caesar)
Trampled by a donkey
Suicide by eating hot coals
Smothered by all of Cicero's works
Executed by crucifixion
12. King John
Heartbreak over his wife's death
Fell into a hole along with his horse
Poisoned by a monk offstage
Mauled by wolves in the forest on a hunting trip
13. King Lear
Executed by Edmund
Froze to death during the winter
Exhaustion from walking too much
Greif over Cordelia's hanging
14. Polonius
Stabbed by Hamlet through a tapestry
Heart attack
Plague
Hit with a rock while swimming and drowned
15. Desdemona
Faints and becomes a statue
Dragged around Troy by a chariot
Smothered by a pillow
Jumping off the parapet
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Level 61
Apr 21, 2025
Please ignore the fact that the Clown uses "from" instead of "in." I didn't notice.