Act 3: Scene 1

Question 1

He does confess he feels himself distracted.

Answer 1

Guildenstern to Claudius

Question 2

But with a crafty madness keeps aloof

Answer 2

Guildenstern to Claudius

Question 3

This night to play before him

Answer 3

Guildenstern to Claudius

Question 4

And he beseeched me to entreat your Majesties

To hear and see the matter.

Answer 4

Polonius to Claudius

Question 5

For we have closely sent for Hamlet hither,
That he, as ’twere by accident, may here
Affront Ophelia.

Answer 5

Claudius to Gertrude

Question 6

We may of their encounter frankly judge,

And gather by him

Answer 6

Claudius to Gertrude

Question 7

I do wish

That your good beauties be the happy cause Of Hamlet’s wildness

Answer 7

Gertrude to Ophelia

Question 8

That show of such an exercise may color

Your loneliness.

Answer 8

Polonius to Ophelia

Question 9

We are oft to blame in this,

‘Tis too much proved, that with devotion’s visage And pious action we do sugar o’er The devil himself.

Answer 9

Polonius to Ophelia

Question 10

Oh, ’tis too true!

How smart a lash that speech doth give my conscience!

Answer 10

Claudius to Himself

Question 11

The harlot’s cheek, beautied with plastering art, Is not more ugly to the thing that helps it
Than is my deed to my most painted word.
O heavy burden!

Answer 11

Claudius to Himself

Question 12

To be, or not to be? That is the question—

Answer 12

Hamlet to Himself?Ophelia?

Question 13

Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer

The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,

Answer 13

Hamlet to Himself?Ophelia?

Question 14

The heartache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to

Answer 14

Hamlet to Himself?Ophelia?

Question 15

tis a consummation

Devoutly to be wished!

Answer 15

Hamlet to Himself? Ophelia

Question 16

To die, to sleep.

To sleep, perchance to dream—ay, there’s the rub,

Answer 16

Hamlet to Himself? Ophelia

Question 17

When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,

Must give us pause

Answer 17

Hamlet to Himself? Ophelia

Question 18

There’s the respect

That makes calamity of so long life.

Answer 18

Hamlet to Himself? Ophelia

Question 19

When he himself might his quietus make

With a bare bodkin?

Answer 19

Hamlet to Himself? Ophelia

Question 20

But that the dread of something after death,

The undiscovered country

Answer 20

Hamlet to Himself? Ophelia

Question 21

And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all

Answer 21

Hamlet to Himself? Ophelia

Question 22

That I have longèd long to redeliver.

I pray you now receive them.

Answer 22

Ophelia to Hamlet

Question 23

the power of beauty will sooner transform honesty from what it is to a bawd than the force of honesty can translate beauty into his likeness

Answer 23

Hamlet to Ophelia

Question 24

Get thee to a nunnery. Why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners?

Answer 24

Hamlet to Ophelia

Question 25

I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offences at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in,

Answer 25

Hamlet to Ophelia

Question 26

What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and heaven? We are arrant knaves, all. Believe none of us.

Answer 26

Hamlet to Ophelia

Question 27

Let the doors be shut upon him, that he may play the fool no where but in ’s own house

Answer 27

Hamlet to Ophelia

Question 28

Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny

Answer 28

Hamlet to Ophelia

Question 29

marry a fool, for wise men know well enough what monsters you make of them

Answer 29

Hamlet to Ophelia

Question 30

Go to, I’ll no more on ’t. It hath made me mad.

Answer 30

Hamlet to Ophelia

Question 31

Oh, what a noble mind is here o’erthrown!—

Answer 31

Ophelia to Herself

Question 32

Oh, woe is me,

T’ have seen what I have seen, see what I see!

Answer 32

Ophelia to Herself

Question 33

Love? His affections do not that way tend.
Nor what he spake, though it lacked form a little,
Was not like madness.

Answer 33

Claudius to Polonius

Question 34

have in quick determination

Thus set it down: he shall with speed to England

Answer 34

Claudius to Polonius

Question 35

his grief

Sprung from neglected love

Answer 35

Polonius to Claudius

Question 36

Let his queen mother all alone entreat him

To show his grief

Answer 36

Polonius to Claudius

Question 37

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Answer 37

Claudius to Polonius

Question 38

Give me that man
That is not passion’s slave, and I will wear him
In my heart’s core

Answer 38

Hamlet to Horatio

Question 39

I prithee, when thou seest that act afoot,
Even with the very comment of thy soul
Observe mine uncle

Answer 39

Hamlet to Horatio

Question 40

If his occulted guilt
Do not itself unkennel in one speech,
It is a damnèd ghost that we have seen,

Answer 40

Hamlet to Horatio

Question 41

Come hither, my dear Hamlet, sit by me.

Answer 41

Gertrude to Horatio