Hamlet Act 1

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• Middelbare school
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• Leerjaar 5

Who joins Bernardo, the watchman, on his watch of the castle?

1. Francisco and Horatio
2. Marcellus and Horatio
3. Prince Hamlet and Marcellus
4. Francisco and Prince Hamlet

What do Marcellus and Bernardo want to show Horatio?

1. Their wives
2. Prince Hamlet
3. A ghost
4. Other watchmen

What proves to Horatio that the ghost is that of King Hamlet?

1. His accent
2. His resemblance to Prince Hamlet
3. His armor
4. His story

How does Horatio explain the appearance of King Hamlet's ghost?

1. He says it's a warning sign
2. He says it's a sign of peace
3. He says it's a sign of the occult
4. He says it's a sign of the King's wishes for his son

Who is Fortinbras?

1. Prince of Denmark
2. King of Denmark
3. King of Norway
4. Prince of Norway

Who is now married to the late King Hamlet's wife?

1. Polonius
2. Claudius
3. Laertes
4. Cornelius

What does King Claudius say he is in mourning over?

1. The death of his father
2. The death of his son
3. The death of his brother
4. His marriage

What do Claudius and Gertrude want Prince Hamlet to do?

1. Go back to school
2. Stay close to them
3. Become the king
4. Get married

What does Prince Hamlet contemplate doing because he is so upset?

1. Kill himself
2. Run away
3. Elope
4. Attack Fortinbras

What does Fortinbras want from Claudius?

1. A position in the Danish court
2. Lands that once belonged to Norway
3. A marriage to Ophelia
4. A tax from the peasants

What does Laertes warn Ophelia about?

1. Taking care of Polonius
2. Being responsible for family properties
3. Claudius' position as king
4. Falling in love with Hamlet

What is Laertes' main objection to Ophelia's feelings?

1. Hamlet is interested in other women
2. Hamlet does not respect their father
3. Hamlet has obligations to his country
4. Hamlet does not respect the institution of marriage

What does Polonius say about Ophelia's relationship with Hamlet?

1. He just wants her to be happy
2. He thinks they're a good match
3. He does not believe that Hamlet has feelings for her
4. He forbids her from seeing him anymore

What does Hamlet overhear while waiting for the ghost to appear?

1. Ophelia crying
2. The revelry of the king
3. His own conscience
4. The sounds of battle

Why do Horatio and Marcellus follow after Hamlet and the ghost?

1. To warn them of impending danger
2. To hear what the ghost has to say
3. To bring Hamlet back to the king's party
4. To protect Hamlet

How did Hamlet's father die?

1. He was stabbed
2. He died in battle
3. He was poisoned
4. He died in his sleep

Who does the ghost of Hamlet's father say killed him?

1. Polonius
2. Laertes
3. Fortinbras
4. Claudius

What does the ghost of King Hamlet say about Gertrude, his wife?

1. He warns Hamlet to be afraid of her
2. He tells Hamlet to get revenge on her
3. He tells Hamlet to leave her alone
4. He tells Hamlet to speak to her about Claudius

What does Hamlet tell Horatio and Marcellus about his plan?

1. That he may pretend to be crazy
2. That he plans on killing Claudius
3. That he hopes to marry Ophelia
4. The he plans to run away

O that this too 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

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, even she,—

O God! a beast that wants discourse of reason,

Would have mourn’d longer,—married with mine uncle,

My father’s brother; but no more like my father

Than I to Hercules: within a month;

Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears

Had left the flushing in her galled eyes,

She married:— O, most wicked speed, to post

With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!

It is not, nor it cannot come to good;

But break my heart,—for I must hold my tongue.