Hamlet Study Guide Answers
Question: Identify Bernardo, Francisco, and Marcellus.
Answer: All guards and friends of Hamlet.
Question: Identify Horatio.
Answer: Best friend of Hamlet and servant of King Hamlet.
Question: Identify King Hamlet.
Answer: Ghost in the play and father of Prince Hamlet.
Question: What had Bernardo seen at a prior watch?
Answer: The ghost of King Hamlet.
Question: Why does Marcellus think Horatio should speak to the ghost?
Answer: Because Horatio is very educated.
Question: What does young Fortinbras want to do?
Answer: Attack Demark beacuse Kink Hamlet killed his father.
Question: Who do the soldiers/guards want to tell about the ghost?
Answer: Prince Hamlet
Question: Identify King Claudius and the Queen Gertrude.
Answer: King Cladius is Prince Hamlet’s uncle and the Queen is his mother.
Question: Identify Laertes and Polonius.
Answer: Laertes is Polonuis’s son and Polonius is the advisor to the King.
Question: Where does Cladius send Cornelius and Voltimand?
Answer: To the King of Norway to tell about Fortibras’s plan.