Act 1: Scene 4

Question 1

The king doth wake tonight and takes his rouse,

Answer 1

Hamlet to Hortio

Question 2

it is a custom

More honored in the breach than the observance.

Answer 2

Hamlet to Horatio

Question 3

The dram of evil
Doth all the noble substance of a doubt
40To his own scandal.

Answer 3

Hamlet to Horatio

Question 4

Angels and ministers of grace defend us!
Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damned,
Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell,
45Be thy intents wicked or charitable,

Answer 4

Hamlet to Ghost

Question 5

Wherein we saw thee quietly interred,
Hath oped his ponderous and marble jaws
To cast thee up again.

Answer 5

Hamlet to Ghost

Question 6

I do not set my life in a pin’s fee

Answer 6

Hamlet to Horatio

Question 7

What if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord,

Or to the dreadful summit of the cliff

Answer 7

Horatio to Hamlet

Question 8

My fate cries out
And makes each petty artery in this body
As hardy as the Nemean lion’s nerve.

Answer 8

Hamlet to Horatio

Question 9

I’ll make a ghost of him that lets me.

Answer 9

Hamlet to Horatio

Question 10

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.

Answer 10

Marcellus to Horatio

Question 11

So art thou to revenge when thou shalt hear.

Answer 11

Ghost to Hamlet

Question 12

Doomed for a certain term to walk the night

Answer 12

Ghost to Hamlet

Question 13

Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature

Are burnt and purged away.

Answer 13

Ghost to Hamlet

Question 14

Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder.

Answer 14

Ghost to Hamlet

Question 15

Haste me to know ’t, that I, with wings as swift

30As meditation

Answer 15

Hamlet to Ghost

Question 16

‘Tis given out that, sleeping in my orchard,

A serpent stung me

Answer 16

Ghost to Hamlet

Question 17

The serpent that did sting thy father’s life

40Now wears his crown.

Answer 17

Ghost to Hamlet

Question 18

Thus was I, sleeping, by a brother’s hand
75Of life, of crown, of queen at once dispatched,
Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin,

Answer 18

Ghost to Hamlet

Question 19

No reckoning made, but sent to my account

With all my imperfections on my head.

Answer 19

Ghost to Hamlet

Question 20

from the table of my memory
I’ll wipe away all trivial fond records,
100All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past

Answer 20

Hamlet to Himself

Question 21

Taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive

Answer 21

Ghost to Hamlet

Question 22

thy commandment all alone shall live

Within the book and volume of my brain,

Answer 22

Hamlet to Himself

Question 23

It is an honest ghost, that let me tell you.

Answer 23

Hamlet to Horatio

Question 24

And therefore as a stranger give it welcome.
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy

Answer 24

Hamlet to Horatio

Question 25

How strange or odd soe’er I bear myself
(As I perchance hereafter shall think meet
To put an antic disposition on),

Answer 25

Hamlet to Horatio

Question 26

The time is out of joint. O cursèd spite,

That ever I was born to set it right!

Answer 26

Hamlet to Horatio