Hamlet: Act 1, Scene 1

Question 1

For this relief much thanks. ‘Tis bitter cold,

And I am sick at heart.

Answer 1

Francisco to Barnardo

Question 2

What, has this thing appeared again tonight?

Answer 2

Horatio to Barnardo

Question 3

Horatio says ’tis but our fantasy

Answer 3

Marcellus to Barnardo

Question 4

Touching this dreaded sight twice seen of us.

Answer 4

Marcellus to Barnardo

Question 5

That if again this apparition come

He may approve our eyes and speak to it.

Answer 5

Marcellus to Barnardo

Question 6

Tush, tush, ’twill not appear.

Answer 6

Horatio to Marcellus

Question 7

In the same figure like the king that’s dead.

Answer 7

Barnardo to Marcellus

Question 8

Together with that fair and warlike form

In which the majesty of buried Denmark

Answer 8

Horatio to The Ghost

Question 9

I charge thee, speak.

Answer 9

Horatio to Ghost

Question 10

Is not this something more than fantasy?

What think you on ’t?

Answer 10

Barnardo to Horatio

Question 11

Before my God, I might not this believe
Without the sensible and true avouch
Of mine own eyes.

Answer 11

Horatio to Barnardo

Question 12

Such was the very armour he had on

When he the ambitious Norway combated

Answer 12

Horatio to Marcellus

Question 13

This bodes some strange eruption to our state.

Answer 13

Horatio to Marcellus

Question 14

Good now, sit down and tell me, he that knows

Answer 14

Marcellus to Horatio

Question 15

Why this same strict and most observant watch

So nightly toils the subject of the land,

Answer 15

Marcellus to Horatio

Question 16

And why such daily cast of brazen cannon

And foreign mart for implements of war,

Answer 16

Marcellus to Horatio

Question 17

Does not divide the Sunday from the week.

Answer 17

Marcellus to Horatio

Question 18

our valiant Hamlet
(For so this side of our known world esteemed him)
Did slay this Fortinbras

Answer 18

Horatio to Marcellus

Question 19

Now, sir, young Fortinbras,
Of unimprovèd mettle hot and full,
Hath in the skirts of Norway here and there
Sharked up a list of lawless resolutes

Answer 19

Horatio to Barnardo

Question 20

Well may it sort that this portentous figure

Comes armèd through our watch

Answer 20

Barnardo to Horatio

Question 21

But soft, behold! Lo, where it comes again.

I’ll cross it though it blast me.—Stay, illusion!

Answer 21

Horatio to Ghost

Question 22

We do it wrong, being so majestical,

To offer it the show of violence,

Answer 22

Marcellus to Horatio

Question 23

I have heard

The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn,

Answer 23

Horatio to Marcellus

Question 24

Wherein our Saviour’s birth is celebrated,

Answer 24

Marcellus to Horatio

Question 25

Let us impart what we have seen tonight
Unto young Hamlet, for, upon my life,
170This spirit, dumb to us, will speak to him.

Answer 25

Horatio to Marcellus

Question 26

Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother’s death
The memory be green, and that it us befitted
To bear our hearts in grief and our whole kingdom
To be contracted in one brow of woe,
5Yet so far hath discretion fought with nature
That we with wisest sorrow think on him
Together with remembrance of ourselves.
Therefore our sometime sister, now our queen,
Th’ imperial jointress to this warlike state,
10Have we—as ’twere with a defeated joy,
With an auspicious and a dropping eye,
With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage,
In equal scale weighing delight and dole—

Answer 26

King to Gertrude

Question 27

Now follows that you know. Young Fortinbras,
Holding a weak supposal of our worth
Or thinking by our late dear brother’s death
20Our state to be disjoint and out of frame,

Answer 27

King to Gertrude

Question 28

Thus much the business is: we have here writ

To Norway, uncle of young Fortinbras—

Answer 28

King to Gertrude

Question 29

we here dispatch
You, good Cornelius, and you, Voltemand,
For bearers of this greeting to old Norway,

Answer 29

King to Gertrude