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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1, p. 20-34.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After trying again and again, what is the score of the game?
(a) 89 to 0
(b) 100 to 0
(c) 85 to 6
(d) 121 to 0

2. What does the Player say to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern upon meeting them on the road?
(a) That it is a lucky thing they came along.
(b) That there are highwaymen about.
(c) They he is surprised to find gentlemen there.
(d) That there is strength in numbers.

3. What question does Guildenstern press on Rosencrantz during their discussion of the game?
(a) If he wants to spin one last coin double or nothing
(b) If he knows any other game they could play
(c) If he wants to spin the coins himself
(d) If he would feel the same having lost that many times

4. What does Guildenstern do differently the next time he tosses a coin?
(a) He rubs the coin on his shirt before tossing it.
(b) He tosses two coins at once.
(c) He lets it land in his other hand.
(d) He tosses it much farther away.

5. What type of performance does the Player say they can put on for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern?
(a) Comedies that will give them stitches in their sides
(b) Mimes and dance accompanied by their musicians
(c) Tragedy to include deaths, disclosures, unexpected turns of events, and even transvestite melodrama
(d) Only a few plays that they have memorized

Short Answer Questions

1. What is odd about the gambling game Guildenstern plays with Rosencrantz?

2. Who are the well-dressed Elizabethan gentlemen at the opening of the play?

3. What happens when the troupe sees the coin?

4. What does Guildenstern do with the coins he takes out of his bag?

5. What are the instruments the musicians play?

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