Hamlet, Part 1: An Introduction to Elizabethan Theater — Quiz
Question 4 • Language Arts 12
Read the excerpt from Hamlet, Act I, Scene ii. Horatio: My lord, I came to see your father’s funeral. Hamlet: I pray thee, do not mock me, fellow-student; I think it was to see my mother’s wedding. Horatio: Indeed, my lord, it follow’d hard upon. Hamlet: Thrift, thrift, Horatio! the funeral bak’d meats Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables. In the excerpt, Shakespeare characterizes Hamlet as
Answer
A
amused that he was able to attend his own mother’s wedding.
B
resentful that Gertrude and Claudius wasted so much food.
C
grateful that his mother did not have to remain a widow for long.
D
disgusted that Gertrude and Claudius married so quickly.