Hamlet: As introduced in the opening scene, Horatio is what?

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all of the following EXCEPT:

a) a fresh acquaintance of Marcellus
b) a visitor from the University of Wittenberg


In his opening speech, Claudius asserts that he married his brothers widow for a number of reasons, but NOT because:

a) the danish royal council had urged him to do so
b) as a patriotic dane he was concerned about a possible norwegian invasion
c) despite his age, he was passionately in love with the widowed queen, gertrude
d) fortinbras of norway had hoped to take advantage of the recent death of the danish king


Hamlet cannot understand his mothers marriage to clauduis because her sexual appettie is NOT consistent with her
A) age
B) social position
C) chastity in marriage (chastity means acceptable behaviour)
D) well known common sense