Act 2: Scene 4,5

Question 1

Tell him that, by his license, Fortinbras

Craves the conveyance of a promised march

Answer 1

Fortinbras to Captain

Question 2

Goes it against the main of Poland, sir,

Or for some frontier?

Answer 2

Hamlet to Captain

Question 3

We go to gain a little patch of ground

That hath in it no profit but the name.

Answer 3

Captain to Hamlet

Question 4

How all occasions do inform against me,

And spur my dull revenge

Answer 4

Hamlet to Himself

Question 5

Sure, he that made us with such large discourse,
Looking before and after, gave us not
That capability and godlike reason
To fust in us unused.

Answer 5

Hamlet to Himself

Question 6

Now, whether it be
Bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple
Of thinking too precisely on th’ event—

Answer 6

Hamlet to Himself

Question 7

Sith I have cause and will and strength and means To do ’t.

Answer 7

Hamlet to Himself

Question 8

Even for an eggshell. Rightly to be great
Is not to stir without great argument,
But greatly to find quarrel in a straw
55When honor’s at the stake

Answer 8

Hamlet to Himself

Question 9

How stand I then,

That have a father killed, a mother stained

Answer 9

Hamlet to Himself

Question 10

My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth!

Answer 10

Hamlet to Himself

Question 11

speaks things in doubt

That carry but half sense. Her speech is nothing,

Answer 11

Gentleman to Gertrude

Question 12

He is dead and gone

Answer 12

Ophelia to Gertrude

Question 13

Larded all with sweet flowers,
 Which bewept to the ground did not go
  With true-love showers.

Answer 13

Ophelia to Gertrude

Question 14

Oh, this is the poison of deep grief. It springs

50All from her father’s death, and now behold!

Answer 14

Claudius to Gertrude

Question 15

First, her father slain.
Next, your son gone, and he most violent author
Of his own just remove.

Answer 15

Claudius to Gertrude

Question 16

Poor Ophelia

Divided from herself and her fair judgment

Answer 16

Claudius to Gertrude

Question 17

O thou vile king,

Give me my father!

Answer 17

Laertes to Claudius

Question 18

That thy rebellion looks so giant-like?

Answer 18

Claudius to Laertes

Question 19

I am guiltless of your father’s death

And am most sensible in grief for it,

Answer 19

Claudius to Laertes

Question 20

I’ll be revenged

110Most thoroughly for my father.

Answer 20

Laertes to Claudius

Question 21

O rose of May,

Dear maid, kind sister, sweet Ophelia!

Answer 21

Laertes to Ophelia

Question 22

There’s fennel for you, and columbines.—There’s rue for you

Answer 22

Ophelia to Gertrude

Question 23

Be you content to lend your patience to us,

And we shall jointly labor with your soul

Answer 23

Claudius to Laertes

Question 24

So you shall.
And where the offense is, let the great ax fall.
180I pray you, go with me.

Answer 24

Claudius to Gertrude