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Quiz about Who Said It In Hamlet
Quiz about Who Said It In Hamlet

Who Said It In "Hamlet" Trivia Quiz


I hope you know your "Hamlet"!

A multiple-choice quiz by fife4. Estimated time: 5 mins.
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Author
fife4
Time
5 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
209,987
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Tough
Avg Score
6 / 10
Plays
2528
Awards
Top 35% Quiz
Last 3 plays: Guest 172 (8/10), Guest 65 (4/10), Guest 216 (5/10).
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Question 1 of 10
1. Who, in "Hamlet" said:

"I cannot choose but weep."?
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Question 2 of 10
2. Who, in "Hamlet" said:

"I am more an antique Roman than a Dane. Yet here's some liquor left."?
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Question 3 of 10
3. Who, in "Hamlet" said:

"You answer with an idle tongue."?
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Question 4 of 10
4. Who, in "Hamlet" said:

"'Tis an unweeded garden that grows to seed, things rank and gross in nature possess it merely; that it should come to this."
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Question 5 of 10
5. Who, in "Hamlet" said:

"Murder most foul, as in the best it is, But this most foul, strange, and unnatural."
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Question 6 of 10
6. Who, in "Hamlet" said:

"Something is rotten in the state of Denmark."
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Question 7 of 10
7. Who does Hamlet say this to?

"Will you see the players well bestowed? Do you hear, let them be well used; for they are the abstract and brief chronicles of the time: after your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live."
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Question 8 of 10
8. Who, in "Hamlet" said:

"Her clothes spread wide, And, mermaid-like, awhile they bore her up; Which time she chanted snatches of old tunes."
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Question 9 of 10
9. Who, in "Hamlet" said:

"To define true madness,what is't but to be nothing else but mad?"
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Question 10 of 10
10. Who, in "Hamlet" said:

"What is he that builds stronger than either the mason, the shipwright, or the carpenter?"
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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. Who, in "Hamlet" said: "I cannot choose but weep."?

Answer: Ophelia

This quote occurs during Ophelia's mad confrontation with Gertrude.
2. Who, in "Hamlet" said: "I am more an antique Roman than a Dane. Yet here's some liquor left."?

Answer: Horatio

Said by Horatio during Hamlet's death scene.
3. Who, in "Hamlet" said: "You answer with an idle tongue."?

Answer: Gertrude

This is the beginning of Hamlet and Gertrude's dramatic confrontation.
4. Who, in "Hamlet" said: "'Tis an unweeded garden that grows to seed, things rank and gross in nature possess it merely; that it should come to this."

Answer: Hamlet

Said during Hamlet's first soliloquy. It begins "Oh how this too too solid flesh would melt."
5. Who, in "Hamlet" said: "Murder most foul, as in the best it is, But this most foul, strange, and unnatural."

Answer: Ghost

This is said while the ghost is detailing the murder to Hamlet.
6. Who, in "Hamlet" said: "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark."

Answer: Marcellus

This is a tough one. Most know this quote but few remember who said it.
7. Who does Hamlet say this to? "Will you see the players well bestowed? Do you hear, let them be well used; for they are the abstract and brief chronicles of the time: after your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live."

Answer: Polonius

This is said to Polonius, who, we find later "did enact Julius Caesar."
8. Who, in "Hamlet" said: "Her clothes spread wide, And, mermaid-like, awhile they bore her up; Which time she chanted snatches of old tunes."

Answer: Gertrude

Gertrude is describing the death of Ophelia.
9. Who, in "Hamlet" said: "To define true madness,what is't but to be nothing else but mad?"

Answer: Polonius

Here, Polonius tried to explain Hamlet's behavior by saying that it was denying contact with Ophelia.
10. Who, in "Hamlet" said: "What is he that builds stronger than either the mason, the shipwright, or the carpenter?"

Answer: Gravedigger

To which the other gravedigger replies, "The gallows-maker; for that frame outlives a thousand tenants."
Source: Author fife4

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