Hamlet, Part 1: An Introduction to Elizabethan Theater — Quiz Answers

Read the excerpt from Hamlet, Act I, Scene i. Marcellus: Is it not like the king? Horatio: As thou art to thyself: Such was the very armour he had on When he the ambitious Norway combated; So frown’d he once, when, in an angry parle, He smote the sledded Polacks on the ice. ’Tis strange. Marcellus: Thus twice before, and jump at this dead hour, With martial stalk hath he gone by our watch. Horatio: In what particular thought to work I know not; But in the gross and scope of my opinion, This bodes some strange eruption to our state. What do Marcellus’s and Horatio’s characterization of the ghost imply?

Read the excerpt from Hamlet, Act I, Scene i. Enter Ghost . Bernardo: In the same figure, like the king that’s dead. Marcellus: Thou art a scholar; speak to it, Horatio. Bernardo: Looks it not like the king? mark it, Horatio. Horatio: Most like: it harrows me with fear and wonder. Bernardo: It would be spoke to. Marcellus: Question it, Horatio. From the interaction of the men, the reader can conclude that Horatio is

Read the excerpt from Hamlet, Act I, Scene i. Horatio: That can I; At least, the whisper goes so. Our last king, Whose image even but now appear’d to us, Was, as you know, by Fortinbras of Norway, Thereto prick’d on by a most emulate pride, Dar’d to the combat; in which our valiant Hamlet— For so this side of our known world esteem’d him— Did slay this Fortinbras; who, by a seal’d compact, Well ratified by law and heraldry, Did forfeit with his life all those his lands Which he stood seiz’d of, to the conqueror; What is the main purpose of Horatio’s speech?

Which excerpt from Hamlet, Act I, Scene i is a stage direction?

Hamlet, Act I, Scene i contains suspense because it

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

Read the excerpt from Hamlet, Act I, Scene ii. Gertrude: Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted colour off, And let thine eye look like a friend on Denmark. Do not for ever with thy vailed lids Seek for thy noble father in the dust: Thou know’st ’tis common; all that live must die, Passing through nature to eternity. Hamlet: Ay, madam, it is common. Gertrude: If it be, Why seems it so particular with thee? Which is the best description of how Gertrude is characterized in this passage?

Read the excerpt from Hamlet, Act I, Scene ii. [ Hamlet: ] 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 follow’d 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 . . . In this excerpt, Hamlet characterizes his mother as

Read the excerpt from Hamlet, Act I, Scene ii. Claudius: Take thy fair hour, Laertes; time be thine, And thy best graces spend it at thy will. But now, my cousin Hamlet, and my son,— Hamlet: [Aside.] A little more than kin, and less than kind. The aside reveals to the audience Hamlet’s