The Melancholy Dane

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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." Horatio Claudius Gertrude Ophelia

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." Ghost Gertrude Claudius Polonius

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." Laertes Gertrude Ophelia Fortinbras

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-" Rozencrantz and Guildenstern Gertrude Claudius Polonius

5. An obvious reply, but not an obvious question. To whom does Hamlet utter this redundant answer? Hamlet: "Words, words, words." Claudius Rozencrantz and Guildenstern Polonius Ophelia

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?" 1st Player 2nd player Horatio Polonius

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." Ophelia Rozencrantz and Guildenstern Osric Reynaldo

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:" Rozencrantz Guildenstern Gertrude Horatio

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." Polonius Claudius Laertes Fortinbras

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." Laertes Ophelia Gertrude Horatio