Quotation Test: Hamlet, Act 1

Question 1

Horatio

Answer 1

young Fortinbras, of unimproved mettle hot and full

Question 2

Claudius

Answer 2

Therefore our sometime sister, now our queen … have we (consistent use of antithetical opposites e.g. with mirth in funeral, and with dirge in marriage) Taken to wife.

Question 3

Claudius

Answer 3

our dear brother’s death … our most valiant brother

Question 4

Gertrude + Hamlet

Answer 4

If it be, why seems it so particular with thee?
Hamlet - Seems, madam! nay it is; I know not ‘seems’.

Question 5

Hamlet

Answer 5

these indeed seem, for they are actions that a man might play

Question 6

Claudius

Answer 6

‘tis unmanly grief; it shows a will most incorrect to heaven

Question 7

Hamlet

Answer 7

‘tis an unweeded garden, that grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature possess it merely

Question 8

Hamlet

Answer 8

But two months dead: nay, not so much, not two

Question 9

Hamlet

Answer 9

Frailty, thy name is woman!

Question 10

Hamlet

Answer 10

Like Niobe, all tears

Question 11

Hamlet

Answer 11

O, God! a beast, that wants discourse of reason, would have mourn’d longer

Question 12

Hamlet

Answer 12

My father’s brother, but no more like my father than I to Hercules

Question 13

Hamlet

Answer 13

O, most wicked speed, to post with such dexterity to incestuous sheets!