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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. After trying again and again, what is the score of the game?
(a) 100 to 0
(b) 121 to 0
(c) 85 to 6
(d) 89 to 0
2. What strange comparison does Guildenstern make to the coins?
(a) Fish
(b) Monkeys
(c) Apples
(d) Rocks
3. What happens when the troupe sees the coin?
(a) They dive for it.
(b) They spit on the coin.
(c) They beg the Player to take it.
(d) They laugh and turn to leave.
4. When the troupe moves on, why does the Player stand in one place?
(a) His foot is on Guildenstern's coin.
(b) He waits for Guildenstern to give him permission to leave.
(c) He's waiting for guildenstern to pay him.
(d) He is drunk and cannot walk.
5. 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 lets it land in his other hand.
(c) He tosses it much farther away.
(d) He tosses two coins at once.
6. How does Guildenstern see the way the game keeps going?
(a) He think Rosencrantz is cheating, but he cannot prove it.
(b) He sees it as odd, perhaps an omen.
(c) He thinks he must continue to entertain Rosencrantz.
(d) He does not think about it.
7. What does Guildenstern say will eventually turn the game around?
(a) The law of Hammurabi
(b) The law of diminishing returns
(c) The law of relativity
(d) The law of gravity
8. How does Hamlet react when Rosencrantz and Guildenstern confront him?
(a) Hamlet refers to them as friends and asks how they are.
(b) Hamlet asks them what they are doing at court.
(c) Hamlet does not recognize them.
(d) Hamlet shouts and runs off stage.
9. What does Guildenstern see when he looks at the coin after trying a new method?
(a) Heads
(b) Nothing. The coin has disappeared.
(c) His hand is dirty.
(d) Tails
10. Trying to determine what Rosencrantz wants to see, what does the Player mention not too subtly?
(a) Bawdy barroom ballads acted out by the mimes as the musician splay and sing
(b) Great Tragedies and comedies they have performed before kings
(c) Adam and Eve in the Garden in their original costumes
(d) Rapes are mentioned and he alludes to wives and "ravished virgins" and asks if he is getting warm.
11. What is the ridiculous conversation Rosencrantz initiates about fingernails and beards?
(a) Whether they should be worn long or short
(b) Whether they grow at the same rate
(c) Whether they are like toenails
(d) Whether they grow before birth and after death
12. How does Guildenstern reply to Rosencrantz's idea about how Guildenstern must be feeling?
(a) He says there is suspense while the coins are in the air.
(b) He says he is not really thinking about the game.
(c) He says that he doesn't mind losing because Rosencrantz is his friend.
(d) He says there are plenty more coins where those came from.
13. After everyone else has left the stage, how does the speech of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern change?
(a) They revert to common language.
(b) They sound terrified.
(c) They speak in riddles.
(d) They stop speaking French.
14. How does Rosencrantz show that he is confused?
(a) He cannot remember the coin game
(b) He asks which way they entered the room.
(c) He asks Guildenstern what his name is.
(d) He asks Guildenstern what just happened.
15. When Rosencrantz begins saying he is afraid, what is it he was going to say before Guildenstern stops him?
(a) That it just wasn't Guildenstern's day.
(b) That they must be dreaming.
(c) That something was dreadfully wrong.
(d) That he was becoming tired of playing.
Short Answer Questions
1. As the scene changes from exterior to interior, who enters the stage?
2. Why is the Player so happy to see the two men?
3. What is Rosencrantz's emotional condition as a result of his encounters?
4. How does Guildenstern summarize that day?
5. What blunder does Rosencrantz make with the introductions?
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