Hamlet Quiz – Act 1: Character Partner Quiz – no books!
The following are quotations that correspond to major events or the main qualities / lines of the
characters in the play. Think hard, and choose who said each. Then briefly describe what the
significance is of each line (could be multiple right answers).
1. “Tush, tush! ‘Twill not appear!”
a. Hamlet
b. Ghost
c. Horatio
d. Marcellus
e. Claudius
Insight:
2. “Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother’s death the memory be green, and that it us befitted to bear our hearts in
grief…that we with wisest sorrow think on him together with remembrance for ourselves.”
a. Polonius
b. Claudius
c. Hamlet
d. Horatio
e. Gertrude
Insight:
3. “Seems, madam! Nay, it is; I know not ‘seems’. Tis not alone my inky cloak…together with all forms, modes of grief
that can denote me truly.”
a. Laertes
b. Claudius
c. Ghost
d. Ophelia
e. Hamlet
Insight:
4. “’Tis unmanly grief: It shows a will most incorrect to heaven, a heart unfortified, a mind impatient, an understanding
simple and unschooled.”
a. Claudius
b. Hamlet
d. Gertrude
d. Horatio
e. Ophelia
Insight:
5. “O God! God! How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world.”
a. Gertrude
b. Laertes
c. Horatio
d. Hamlet
e. Claudius
c. Claudius
d. Horatio
e. Marcellus
Insight:
6. “Frailty, thy name is woman!”
a. Ghost
Insight:
b. Hamlet
7. “He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again.”
a. Hamlet
b. Polonius
c. Gertrude
d. Ophelia
e. Ghost
Insight:
8. “Then weigh what loss your honour may sustain, if with too credent ear you list his songs, or lose your heart, or your
chaste treasure open to his unmastered importunity.”
a. Claudius
b. Hamlet
c. Horatio
d. Ophelia
e. Laertes
Insight:
9. “Neither a borrower nor a lender be…This above all: to thine own self be true.”
a. Hamlet
b. Polonius
c. Laertes
d. Ghost
e. Ophelia
Insight:
10. “But know, thy noble youth, the serpent that did sting thy father’s life now wears his crown.”
a. Ghost
b. Hamlet
c. Horatio
d. Polonius
e. Claudius
d. Marcellus
e. Ghost
Insight:
Bonus: “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.”
a. Bernardo
b. Hamlet
c. Horatio