Hamlet 1-3

Hamlet opens on...

• Two sentinels.

• Hamlet in bed.

• Claudius speaking to Polonius.

• A party.

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Why is Horatio on watch with Barnardo and Marcellus?

• He is on watch because it's his duty.

• He is on watch to relieve Barnardo.

• He is on watch to witness the thing they have claimed to seen.

• He is on watch because he is bored.

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What has brought Hamlet home?

• He graduated college.

• The funeral of his father and the marriage of his mother.

• He is about to be crowned king of Denmark.

• Denmark is going to war and he is there to lead the army.

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What does King Claudius and Queen Gertrude want Hamlet to do?

• They want him to stay in Denmark.

• They want him to head the army to fight in the war.

• They want him to marry Ophelia.

• They want him to stop mourning his father and not to go back to school.

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What does Polonius mean when he says this to Laertes?

"This above all; to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man."

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