Act 1 Scene 1 Study Questions

1. People start getting interested, because the first sighting is a ghost.
2. Act 1 Scene 1 describes the characters and the setting, along with the feud with of the two kings.
3. The guards go looking for Hamlet.
4. The guards are frighten in the middle of winter when a ghost appears.
5. The ghost is surrounding them and they are just about to go into war.
6. Horatio says that the ghost is a sign, telling the kingdom that something bad is coming, or that there may be a treasure to be found.
7. Ghost, Horatio, Francisco, Barnado, and Marcellus.
8. Horatio had on the same armor when he fought the king of Norway.
9. Frotinbras the prince of Norway, came and seeked revenge for his dead father.
10. The dead had all rosed from their graves and walked wailing the streets of Rome.
11. He is a scholar and Marcellus and Barnardo are the guards.
12. They got him to come because only scholars could speak to ghost.
13. The king of Denmark, killed the king of Norway.