Read the excerpt from Hamlet, Act I, Scene i.Marcellus: Is it not like the king?Horatio: As thou art to thyself: Such was the very armour he had on When he the ambitious Norway combated; So frown’d he once, when, in an angry parle, He smote the sledded Polacks on the ice. ’Tis strange.Marcellus: Thus twice before, and jump at this dead hour, With martial stalk hath he gone by our watch.Horatio: In what particular thought to work I know not; But in the gross and scope of my opinion, This bodes some strange eruption to our state.
Answer
A
that a large battle is looming
B
that someone is tricking them
C
that the kingdom is cursed
D
that something bad is going on
Explanation
Horatio says the ghost’s repeated appearance “bodes some strange eruption to our state.” “Bodes” means signals or predicts, and “strange eruption” suggests a troubling event for the kingdom. So he thinks something bad is going on, not that a specific battle is definitely looming or that the kingdom is cursed.
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