Act 1: Scene 2

Question 1

What wouldst thou beg, Laertes,
That shall not be my offer, not thy asking?
The head is not more native to the heart,
The hand more instrumental to the mouth,
Than is the throne of Denmark to thy father.

Answer 1

Claudius to Laertes

Question 2

I came to Denmark

To show my duty in your coronation,

Answer 2

Laertes to Claudius

Question 3

Take thy fair hour, Laertes. Time be thine,
And thy best graces spend it at thy will.—
But now, my cousin Hamlet, and my son—

Answer 3

Claudius to Laertes

Question 4

A little more than kin and less than kind.

Answer 4

Hamlet to Himself

Question 5

How is it that the clouds still hang on you?

Answer 5

Claudius to Hamlet

Question 6

Not so, my lord. I am too much i’ the sun

Answer 6

Hamlet to Claudius

Question 7

Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted color off,

And let thine eye look like a friend on Denmark.

Answer 7

Gertrude to Hamlet

Question 8

All that lives must die

Answer 8

Gertrude to Hamlet

Question 9

‘Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother,
Nor customary suits of solemn black,
Nor windy suspiration of forced breath,
80No, nor the fruitful river in the eye,
Nor the dejected ‘havior of the visage,
Together with all forms, moods, shapes of grief,

Answer 9

Hamlet to Gertrude

Question 10

But I have that within which passeth show,

These but the trappings and the suits of woe.

Answer 10

Hamlet to Gertrude

Question 11

‘Tis unmanly grief.

It shows a will most incorrect to heaven,

Answer 11

Claudius to Hamlet

Question 12

For let the world take note,

You are the most immediate to our throne,

Answer 12

Claudius to Hamlet

Question 13

I pray thee, stay with us. Go not to Wittenberg.

Answer 13

Gertrude to Hamlet

Question 14

Oh, that this too, too sullied flesh would melt,
Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew,
Or that the Everlasting had not fixed
His canon ‘gainst self-slaughter!

Answer 14

Hamlet to Himself

Question 15

Tis an unweeded garden

That grows to seed.

Answer 15

Hamlet to Himself

Question 16

Frailty, thy name is Woman

Answer 16

Hamlet to Himself

Question 17

a beast that wants discourse of reason

Would have mourned longer!

Answer 17

Hamlet to Himself

Question 18

incestuous sheets!

Answer 18

Hamlet to Himself

Question 19

My lord, I came to see your father’s funeral.

Answer 19

Horatio to Hamlet

Question 20

Thrift, thrift, Horatio! The funeral baked meats

Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.

Answer 20

Hamlet to Horatio

Question 21

Thrice he walked

By their oppressed and fear-surprisèd eyes

Answer 21

Horatio to Hamlet

Question 22

If it assume my noble father’s person,

I’ll speak to it,

Answer 22

Hamlet to Horatio

Question 23

If you have hitherto concealed this sight,
Let it be tenable in your silence still.
And whatsoever else shall hap tonight,
Give it an understanding, but no tongue.

Answer 23

Hamlet to Horatio

Question 24

My father’s spirit in arms. All is not well.

I doubt some foul play.

Answer 24

Hamlet to Himself