Act 4: Scene 1

Question 1

Mad as the sea and wind

Answer 1

Gertrude to Claudius

Question 2

Whips out his rapier, cries, “A rat, a rat!”
And in this brainish apprehension kills
The unseen good old man.

Answer 2

Gertrude to Claudius

Question 3

It had been so with us, had we been there

Answer 3

Claudius to Gertrude

Question 4

how shall this bloody deed be answered?

Answer 4

Claudius to Gertrude

Question 5

But we will ship him hence, and this vile deed
We must, with all our majesty and skill,
Both countenance and excuse.

Answer 5

Claudius to Gertrude

Question 6

Hamlet in madness hath Polonius slain,

Answer 6

Claudius to Guildenstern

Question 7

What have you done, my lord, with the dead body?

Answer 7

Guildenstern to Hamlet

Question 8

Take you me for a sponge, my lord?

Answer 8

Guildenstern to Hamlet

Question 9

The body is with the king, but the king is not with the body.
The king is a thing—

Answer 9

Hamlet to Guildenstern

Question 10

Yet must not we put the strong law on him.
He’s loved of the distracted multitude,
5Who like not in their judgment, but their eyes.

Answer 10

Claudius to Himself

Question 11

This sudden sending him away must seem

Deliberate pause.

Answer 11

Claudius to Himself

Question 12

Not where he eats, but where he is eaten. A certain convocation of politic worms are e’en at him

Answer 12

Hamlet to Claudius

Question 13

We fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots

Answer 13

Hamlet to Claudius

Question 14

Nothing but to show you how a king may go a progress through the guts of a beggar.

Answer 14

Hamlet to Claudius

Question 15

So is it, if thou knew’st our purposes.

Answer 15

Claudius to Hamlet

Question 16

And, England, if my love thou hold’st at aught—

As my great power thereof may give thee sense

Answer 16

Claudius to Himself

Question 17

Our sovereign process, which imports at full,
By letters congruing to that effect,
The present death of Hamlet. Do it, England,

Answer 17

Claudius to Himself