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Background information
Scene 1
Scene 2
Scene 3
Scene 4-5
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England's ruler at the time Hamlet was written
Who is Queen Elizabeth?
100
Name three of the characters in scene on
Who are: Marcellus, Bernardo, Francisco, Horatio, or the ghost
100
How long has Hamlet's dad been dead
About one month
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Scene 3 only has three characters. Who are they
Ophelia, Polonius, and Laertes
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Who does the ghost beckon away from the group
Hamlet
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The country Hamlet takes place in
What is Denmark?
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Before scene 1 begins, the guards had already seen the ghost how many times
2
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Laertes asks permission to go where
France
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Why is it contradictory for Polonius to say, "To thine ownself be true"
Because he just gave Laertes directions on how to act 
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What does Denmark believe happened to the king, and what really happened?
Denmark believes a snake bit him. In reality, his brother poured poison in his ear
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The genre of the play
What is a tragedy?
300
Denmark might go to war with which country
What is Norway?
300
Hamlet is criticized by his uncle for wearing what
Too much black
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Why does Laertes warn Ophelia about Hamlet?
He says that because he's a prince, he can't choose who he marries
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Why does the ghost say he's in purgatory

Because he died before he was able to complete the last rites (he didn't get a chance to repent before his death)

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The globe theater had this many sides
What are 16
400
The name of the prince of Norway
Who is Fortinbras
400
Hamlet speaks about suicide, what does he say about it?
He wishes he could commit suicide, but he can't because it's against God's laws
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What does Polonius instruct Ophelia to do
Break up with Hamlet
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Who does the ghost want Hamlet to harm
Only Claudius (only his uncle, not his mom)
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Iambic Pentameter is
The metrical rhythm of the lines, there are 10 syllables in each line.
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Who says the following quote, and to whom is he speaking?

What art thou that usurp’st this time of night

Together with that fair and warlike form

In which the majesty of buried Denmark

Did sometimes march? By heaven, I charge thee, speak.

Horatio to the ghost
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Who is Hamlet talking about in the following quote:

Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears

Had left the flushing in her gallèd eyes,

She married. O most wicked speed, to post

With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!

His mother/The Queen/Gertrude
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Who says this quote and what does it mean:

But, good my brother,

Do not, as some ungracious pastors do,

Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven

Whiles, like a puffed and reckless libertine,

Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads

And recks not his own rede.

Ophelia, she's telling her brother not to be a hypocrite: if she has to be careful with her virtue, so does he
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Hamlet makes Horatio and Marcellus swear to do two things. What were they
1. To not tell anyone about him meeting the ghost

2. To not give him away when he starts acting insane