Hamlet Act 1

Hamlet Act 1-Scene 1

Scene 1

Act 1, Scene 1

Setting

• Place: The Platform of Elsinore Castle- Denmark

• Time : around mid-night

• Characters: 1- Fransisco 2- Marcellus 3- Barnardo (All senitels/ guards)

• 4- Horatio: a friend of Hamlet. A Scholar.

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Multiple Choice

What did the senitels see?

• A Snake

• A hollow Skull

• A Monster

• A Ghost

Multiple Choice

Who does the apparition look like?

• King Hamlet

• Fortinbras

• Horatio

• King Juluis

Multiple Select

Check the quotations that show Horatio how felt about the ghost before he saw it.

• Horatio. What, has this thing appeared again tonight?

• Horatio. Tush, tush, ’twill not appear.

Open Ended

Why did the guards ask Horatio in particular to join them at the platform?

Multiple Choice

What was the alarming thing about the King's ghost?

• He appeared at night only

• He was wearing an armor

• He didn't speak to anyone

• He disappeared when he heard the rooster

Multiple Select

Check: What was Horatio's reaction after he saw the ghost?

• "Most like. It harrows me with fear and wonder"

• What art thou that usurp’st this time of night, Together with that fair and warlike form

• Before my God, I might not this believe Without the sensible and true avouch Of mine own eyes.

Multiple Choice

Horation thinks "In what particular thought to work I know not, But in the gross and scope of mine opinion This bodes some strange eruption to our state." He then alludes to this king to confirm his assumption.

• King Lear

• King Julius

• King Hamlet

• King Richard

Open Ended

By the end of the scene, what did agree they would do? Why?

Multiple Choice

Who first sees the ghost of King Hamlet?

• Marcellus and Bernardo

• Horatio

• Hamlet

• Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

Multiple Choice

What strange event has happened twice at night near the castle?

• The ghost of King Hamlet has appeared

• Hamlet and Ophelia have been spotted spending time alone together

• An unexplained light has appeared near the grave of King Hamlet

• Prince Hamlet has had an emotional meltdown

Multiple Choice

Why does Horatio not believe the guards about what they have seen?

• He doesn't believe in ghosts

• He knows that people can scare easily in the middle of the night

• The guards are not educated or reliable sources of information

• He has not seen the ghost with his own eyes

Multiple Choice

What do the men believe the ghost is trying to foretell?

• The death of Prince Hamlet

• Fall of the country

• A forthcoming battle

• Prosperity for the kingdom

Open Ended

Retell the events of the scene from the point of view of Horatio.