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Hamlet Test Questions and Answers
Horatio says 'tis but our fantasy,
And will not let belief take hold of him
Touching this dreaded sight, twice seen of us.
Therefore I have entreated him along
With us to watch the minutes of this night,
That if again this apparition come
He may approve our eyes and speak of it.
o :# Marcellus to Bernardo and Horatio. They are discussing the ghost of King
Hamlet, showing that Marcellus is level-headed and Horatio is trusted.
Therefore our sometime sister, now our queen,
The imperial jointress to this warlike state,
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
o :# King Claudius to his court. Claudius talks of marrying his sister-in-law,
displaying that he is ambitious and manipulative.
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A little more than kin, and less than kind
o :# Hamlet to audience. Claudius is both uncle and father and king. "Kind" could
mean "mean" or "different kind of person".
. . . But to perserver
In obstinate condolement is a course
Of impious stubbornness. 'Tis unmanly grief.
o :# Claudius to Hamlet. Get on with it, stop moping, man up youre just being
stubborn. everyone loses their fathers
We pray you throw to earth
This unprevailing woe, and think of us
As of a father; for let the world take note
You are the most immediate to our throne,
And with no less nobility of love
Than that which dearest father bears his son
Do I impart toward you.
o :# Claudius to Hamlet
Claudius tells Hamlet to stop grieving, that he will act as his father now. Hamlet is also
next in line to the throne.
SOLILOQUY 1
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O that this too solid flesh would melt,
Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew!
Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd
His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God! O God!
How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable
Seem to me all the uses of this world!
Fie on't! O fie! 'tis an unweeded garden,
That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature
Possess it merely. That it should come to this!
But two months dead! — nay, not so much, not two:
So excellent a king; that was, to this,
Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother,
That he might not beteem the winds of heaven
Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth!
Must I remember? Why, she would hang on him
As if increase of appetite had grown
By what it fed on: and yet, within a month, —
Let me not think on't, — Frailty, thy name is woman! —
A little month; or ere those shoes were old
With which she followed my poor father's body
Like Niobe, all tears; — why she,
Hamlet Test Questions and Answers
Horatio says 'tis but our fantasy,
And will not let belief take hold of him
Touching this dreaded sight, twice seen of us.
Therefore I have entreated him along
With us to watch the minutes of this night,
That if again this apparition come
He may approve our eyes and speak of it.
o :# Marcellus to Bernardo and Horatio. They are discussing the ghost of King
Hamlet, showing that Marcellus is level-headed and Horatio is trusted.
Therefore our sometime sister, now our queen,
The imperial jointress to this warlike state,
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
o :# King Claudius to his court. Claudius talks of marrying his sister-in-law,
displaying that he is ambitious and manipulative.
, 2024/2025 2|Page
A little more than kin, and less than kind
o :# Hamlet to audience. Claudius is both uncle and father and king. "Kind" could
mean "mean" or "different kind of person".
. . . But to perserver
In obstinate condolement is a course
Of impious stubbornness. 'Tis unmanly grief.
o :# Claudius to Hamlet. Get on with it, stop moping, man up youre just being
stubborn. everyone loses their fathers
We pray you throw to earth
This unprevailing woe, and think of us
As of a father; for let the world take note
You are the most immediate to our throne,
And with no less nobility of love
Than that which dearest father bears his son
Do I impart toward you.
o :# Claudius to Hamlet
Claudius tells Hamlet to stop grieving, that he will act as his father now. Hamlet is also
next in line to the throne.
SOLILOQUY 1
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O that this too solid flesh would melt,
Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew!
Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd
His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God! O God!
How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable
Seem to me all the uses of this world!
Fie on't! O fie! 'tis an unweeded garden,
That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature
Possess it merely. That it should come to this!
But two months dead! — nay, not so much, not two:
So excellent a king; that was, to this,
Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother,
That he might not beteem the winds of heaven
Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth!
Must I remember? Why, she would hang on him
As if increase of appetite had grown
By what it fed on: and yet, within a month, —
Let me not think on't, — Frailty, thy name is woman! —
A little month; or ere those shoes were old
With which she followed my poor father's body
Like Niobe, all tears; — why she,
