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Quiz about The Melancholy Dane

The Melancholy Dane Trivia Quiz

This quiz is all about Hamlet. You know his famous lines, but do you know to whom these lines are spoken? That is the real question.

A multiple-choice quiz by gumbysgal. Estimated time: 4 mins.
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Author
gumbysgal
Time
4 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
308,571
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
7 / 10
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Question 1 of 10
1. Hamlet speaks this quotation to which character? Hamlet: "Come, come and sit you down; you shall not budge; you go not until I set up a glass where you may see the inmost part of you." Hint


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Question 2 of 10
2. Driving the plot of the entire play, to whom does Hamlet speak this quotation? Hamlet: "Haste me to know't, that I, with wings as swift as meditation or the thoughts of love, may sweep to my revenge." Hint


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Question 3 of 10
3. Hamlet is a little hot under the collar when he utters this quotation to which character? Hamlet: "If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, pure as snow, thou shall not escape calumny." Hint


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Question 4 of 10
4. Now Hamlet is just being difficult here...who does he fool with in this quotation? Hamlet: "The body is with the king, but the king is not with the body. The king is a thing-" Hint


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Question 5 of 10
5. An obvious reply, but not an obvious question. To whom does Hamlet utter this redundant answer? Hamlet: "Words, words, words." Hint


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Question 6 of 10
6. Sly Hamlet begins to put his plan into motion with this quotation spoken to which character? Hamlet: "We'll ha't to-morrow night. You could, for a need, study a speech of some dozen or sixteen lines, which I would set down and insert it't, could you not?" Hint


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Question 7 of 10
7. No one can pull the wool over Hamlet's eyes. Which character(s) does he question in this quotation? Hamlet: "Were you not sent for? Is it your own inclining? Is it a free visitation? Come, deal justly with me: come, come; nay, speak." Hint


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Question 8 of 10
8. To whom does Hamlet speak this line? Hamlet: "There is a play to-night before the king; One scene of it comes near the circumstance which I have told thee of my father's death: I prithee, when thou seest that act afoot, even with the very comment of thy soul observe mine uncle:" Hint


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Question 9 of 10
9. Whose pardon does Hamlet ask for in this line? Hamlet: "Give me your pardon, sir: I've done you wrong; But pardon't as you are a gentleman." Hint


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Question 10 of 10
10. This pained line is begged of which character? Hamlet: "If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart absent thee from felicity awhile, and in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain, to tell my story." Hint





Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. Hamlet speaks this quotation to which character? Hamlet: "Come, come and sit you down; you shall not budge; you go not until I set up a glass where you may see the inmost part of you."

Answer: Gertrude

 This quotation comes from Act III, scene iv, the closet scene, in which Hamlet confronts his mother Gertrude about her behavior with the king.
2. Driving the plot of the entire play, to whom does Hamlet speak this quotation? Hamlet: "Haste me to know't, that I, with wings as swift as meditation or the thoughts of love, may sweep to my revenge."

Answer: Ghost

 A famous line from Act I, scene v, when Hamlet finds out that his father has been murdered by his uncle and he implores the ghost to tell him more so that he may get revenge on his uncle.
3. Hamlet is a little hot under the collar when he utters this quotation to which character? Hamlet: "If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, pure as snow, thou shall not escape calumny."

Answer: Ophelia

 From the famous, "Get thee to a nunnery" speech to Ophelia in Act III, scene i. Questioning Ophelia about the whereabouts of her father, he may know Polonius is watching.
4. Now Hamlet is just being difficult here...who does he fool with in this quotation? Hamlet: "The body is with the king, but the king is not with the body. The king is a thing-"

Answer: Rozencrantz and Guildenstern

 A wonderful play on words from Act IV, scene ii in which Hamlet is confronted by his schoolmates, Rozencrantz and Guildenstern, sent from the king to find the body of Polonius. In this speech, Hamlet says the body is with the king, meaning his dead father, but that the king is not with the body, referring to the current king, Claudius.

He ends this wordplay by calling the king a thing -of nothing.
5. An obvious reply, but not an obvious question. To whom does Hamlet utter this redundant answer? Hamlet: "Words, words, words."

Answer: Polonius

 A hilarious scene in Act II, scene ii, in which Hamlet is questioned by the bumbling Polonius. Having just called Polonius a fishmonger, Hamlet responds to Polonius's question about what he is reading with this famous line.
6. Sly Hamlet begins to put his plan into motion with this quotation spoken to which character? Hamlet: "We'll ha't to-morrow night. You could, for a need, study a speech of some dozen or sixteen lines, which I would set down and insert it't, could you not?"

Answer: 1st Player

 Preparing to catch the guilty king by setting up a mock reenactment of his father's murder, Hamlet asks the first player to add a speech into the performance of 'The Mousetrap', in Act II, scene ii.
7. No one can pull the wool over Hamlet's eyes. Which character(s) does he question in this quotation? Hamlet: "Were you not sent for? Is it your own inclining? Is it a free visitation? Come, deal justly with me: come, come; nay, speak."

Answer: Rozencrantz and Guildenstern

 By Act II, scene ii, Hamlet is already suspicious of the king's actions and is keenly aware that his schoolmates have been sent for by the king to spy on Hamlet and report his behavior.
8. To whom does Hamlet speak this line? Hamlet: "There is a play to-night before the king; One scene of it comes near the circumstance which I have told thee of my father's death: I prithee, when thou seest that act afoot, even with the very comment of thy soul observe mine uncle:"

Answer: Horatio

 Of course Horatio is the only character in the play truly loyal to Hamlet and in Act III, scene ii, Hamlet tells about him about his plan and asks Horatio to watch the king's reaction during the play-within-the-play.
9. Whose pardon does Hamlet ask for in this line? Hamlet: "Give me your pardon, sir: I've done you wrong; But pardon't as you are a gentleman."

Answer: Laertes

 Just prior to the fencing match, in the final scene of the play, Act V, scene ii, Hamlet apologizes to Laertes for murdering his father. It is of course interesting to note that Hamlet rashly killed the innocent Polonius, yet struggles throughout the play to kill the murdering Claudius.
10. This pained line is begged of which character? Hamlet: "If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart absent thee from felicity awhile, and in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain, to tell my story."

Answer: Horatio

 In Hamlet's parting words in Act V, scene ii to Horatio, the one character who has remained loyal and true to Hamlet throughout the play, Hamlet begs Horatio to continue living to tell his story to the coming Fortinbras.
Source: Author gumbysgal

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