Hamlet by Shakespeare

Question 1

Horatio says ‘tis but our fantasy/And will not let belief take hold of him/Touching this dreaded sight twice seen of us.

Answer 1

Marcellus to Barnardo

Question 2

When yond star that’s westward from the pole. Had made his course t’illume that part of heaven Where now it burns, Marcellus and myself, The bell then beating one—

Answer 2

Barnardo to Horatio/Marcellus

Question 3

What art thou that usurp’st this time of night, together with that fair and warlike form In which the majesty of buried Denmark Did sometimes march? By heaven, I charge thee, speak.

Answer 3

Horatio to Ghost

Question 4

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

Answer 4

Horatio to Barnardo and Marcellus

Question 5

In what particular thought to work I know not, But in tehe gross and scope of mine opinion This bodes some strange eruption to our state.

Answer 5

Horatio to Marcellus and Barnardo

Question 6

As thou art to thyself. Such was the very armor he had on When he the ambitious Norway combat. So frowned he once when , in an angry parle, He smote the sledded Polacks on the ice.

Answer 6

Horatio to Barnado and Marcellus

Question 7

Tell me, he that knows, Why this same strict and most observant watch so nightly toils the subject of the land, And why such daily cast of brazen cannon and foreign mart for implements of war, Why such impress of shiwrights, whose sore task does not divide the Sunday from the week. What might be toward that this sweaty haste Doth make the night joint laboerer with the day?

Answer 7

Marcellus to Horatio and Barnardo

Question 8

Now, sir, young Fortinbras, of unimproved mettle hot and full, Hath in the skirts of Norway here and there Sharked up alist of lawless resolutes For food and diet to some etnerprise that hath a stomach int; which is no other but to recover of us, by strong hand, and terms compulsttory, those foresaid lands so by hiis father lost.

Answer 8

Horatio to Marcellus and Barnardo

Question 9

A mote it is to trouble the mind’s eye. In the most high and palmy state of Rome, A little ere the mightiest Julius fell, The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets; As stars with trains of fire and dews of blood, Disasters in the sun and the moist star, Upon whose influence Neptune’s empire stands, was sick almost to doomsday with eclpse

Answer 9

Horatio to Marcellus and Barnardo

Question 10

And even like the precurse of feared events, As bharbingers preceding still the fates and prologue to the omen coming on, Have heaven and earth together deomnstrated unto our climatures and countrymen.

Answer 10

Horatio to Marcellus and Barnardo

Question 11

Have 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) Taken to wife.

Answer 11

King Claudius to the Court

Question 12

What wouldst thou beg, Laertes, That shall not be my offer, not thy asking? The head is not more antive to the heart, The hand more instrumental to the mouth, Than is the throone of Denamrk to thy father.

Answer 12

King Claudius to Laertes

Question 13

Hath my lord, wrung from me my slow leave By laborsome petition, and at last Upon his will I sealed my hard consent. I do beseech you give him leve to go.

Answer 13

Polonius to King

Question 14

A little more than kin and less than kind

Answer 14

Hamlet to himself

Question 15

I am too much in the sun

Answer 15

Hamlet to King C

Question 16

cast thy nighted color off, And let thine eye look like a friend on Denmark. Do not forever with thy valied lids, Seemk for thy noble father in the dust. Thou knowst tis common; all that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity

Answer 16

Queen Gertrude to Hamlet

Question 17

It is common

Answer 17

Hamlet to Queen G

Question 18

But i have that within with passes how, These but the trappings and suits of woe.

Answer 18

Hamlet to Queen

Question 19

But you must know your father lost a father, That dather lost, lost his, and te survivor bound in filial obligration for some term to do obsequiour sorroy. But to persever in obstinate consoleent is a course of impious stubbornness. Tis unmanly grief. It shows a will most incorerect t o heaven , a heart unfortified, a mind impatient, An understanding simple and unschooled.

Answer 19

King to Hamlet

Question 20

For what we know must be and is as common As any the most vulgar thing to sense, Why should we in our peevish opposition Take it to heart? Fie, ‘tis a fault ot heaven, A fault against the dead, a fault to nature, To reason most absurd, whose ommon theme is death of ather, and who still hath cried, Form teh first corse till he that died today, This must be so.

Answer 20

King to Hamlet

Question 21

This gentle and unforced accord of Hamlet Sits simling to my heart, in grace owhereof No jocund health that Denmark drinks today But the great cannon to the clouds shall tell,

Answer 21

King to Queen

Question 22

I would not hear your enemy say so, Nor shall you do my ear that violence to make it truster of your own report against yourself

Answer 22

Hamlet to Horatio