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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 2, p. 55-84.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the source of the sounds Rosencrantz had heard?
(a) Six "Tragedians" or traveling actors, musicians, and their leader
(b) Six milkmaids heading for the market
(c) Six men on white horses with bells
(d) Six travellers who claim they saw a unicorn

2. What question does Guildenstern put to the Player?
(a) He asks which way is north.
(b) He asks what he and Rosencrantz need to know.
(c) He asks the Player what he and Rosencrantz are supposed to do.
(d) He asks where they can find Hamlet.

3. What are the lines from Shakespeare's Hamlet, Act II, Scene ii that Hamlet says as Act Two opens?
(a) Out, out, damned spot.
(b) Alas, poor Yorick, I knew him well.
(c) The forest is coming to Elsinore.
(d) S'blood, there is something in this more than natural, if philosophy could find it out.

4. What makes Rosencrantz and Guildenstern laugh at this new coin game?
(a) Both of Rosencrantz's hands are empty
(b) Guildenstern wins back all his coins
(c) They have invented a new game
(d) The coin fall on tails every time

5. What blunder does Rosencrantz make with the introductions?
(a) He fails to mention their names.
(b) He confuses their names, calling himself Guildenstern.
(c) He talks down to the Player as though he were a Lord.
(d) He cannot recall Guildenstern's name.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what kind of death does the Player say people only believe?

2. What strange comment does Rosencrantz make about questions?

3. What exchange is there between Hamlet and Ophelia?

4. What does Guildenstern mean when he says he is afraid, too?

5. As the scene changes from exterior to interior, who enters the stage?

(see the answer key)

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