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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Rosencrantz's emotional condition as a result of his encounters?
(a) He understands everything that is happening around him.
(b) He is confident that everything will now turn out all right.
(c) He is apologetic for winning all of Guildenstern's money.
(d) Rosencrantz continues to feel stressed and seems to feel a death is coming.

2. How is it obvious that the two men have been playing the gambling game for a long time?
(a) Rosencrantz keeps saying he is tired of playing the game.
(b) Guildenstern's bag is nearly empty while Rosencrantz's bag is full.
(c) There are coins scattered all over the stage.
(d) Guildenstern asks Rosencrantz to loan him more coins.

3. When Rosencrantz collects the coin, why does he say Guildenstern was lucky?
(a) The coin was on tails.
(b) The coin was almost lost.
(c) The coin was buried in the sand.
(d) The coin was on heads again.

4. What concession do Rosencrantz and Guildenstern make to Claudius and Gertrude?
(a) They will play one game of coins.
(b) They will not tell Hamlet what Gertrude said.
(c) They commit to stay and to do whatever they can do to assist.
(d) They will get the troupe to help them.

5. What is Guildenstern's angry reply to the Player's suggestion?
(a) He laughs in the Player's face and calls him stupid.
(b) He draws his sword and tells the Player if he suggests that again, he will kill him.
(c) He calls the Player a pimp and orders him to leave with his troupe.
(d) He says he was prepared for any kind of messenger, but instead he is approached by prostitutes.

6. How does Hamlet react when Rosencrantz and Guildenstern confront him?
(a) Hamlet asks them what they are doing at court.
(b) Hamlet does not recognize them.
(c) Hamlet shouts and runs off stage.
(d) Hamlet refers to them as friends and asks how they are.

7. What is the fanciful conversation started by Guildenstern when Rosencrantz hears a sound.
(a) About unicorns
(b) About the fife and drum
(c) About calssical music
(d) About things that go bump in the night

8. What are Guildenstern's suggestions for him and Rosencrantz in this strange situation?
(a) Be alert, tread carefully, and follow instructions.
(b) Be inquisitive and ask a lot of questions.
(c) Be confident, get the answers, and go home.
(d) Be irate and demand to go home.

9. After everyone else has left the stage, how does the speech of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern change?
(a) They sound terrified.
(b) They speak in riddles.
(c) They revert to common language.
(d) They stop speaking French.

10. When the troupe moves on, why does the Player stand in one place?
(a) He's waiting for guildenstern to pay him.
(b) He waits for Guildenstern to give him permission to leave.
(c) His foot is on Guildenstern's coin.
(d) He is drunk and cannot walk.

11. What is the leader of the traveling group called?
(a) Paladin
(b) Player
(c) partner
(d) Procurius

12. What does Guildenstern suggest they do with Hamlet?
(a) That they should move Hamlet toward pleasurable things
(b) That they should kidnap him.
(c) That they should blackmail Hamlet.
(d) That they should threaten Hamlet.

13. Guildenstern is aware that the game defies _________________________.
(a) The law of probability
(b) The law of geometry
(c) The law of the land
(d) The law of gravity

14. How does Guildenstern reply to Rosencrantz's idea about how Guildenstern must be feeling?
(a) He says that he doesn't mind losing because Rosencrantz is his friend.
(b) He says there are plenty more coins where those came from.
(c) He says there is suspense while the coins are in the air.
(d) He says he is not really thinking about the game.

15. What does Gertrude tell Rosencrantz and Guildenstern?
(a) Hamlet has spoken of them and that she knows how fond of them he is.
(b) There are two of them and Hamlet is alone.
(c) They should get Ophelia to help them.
(d) Hamlet will talk to them because they are strangers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Player's apology to Guildenstern and Rosencrantz?

2. What event does Guildenstern recall as they talk about questions?

3. What new theory does Guildenstern come up with for his run of bad luck?

4. What does Guildenstern see when he looks at the coin after trying a new method?

5. How does the dialogue change when Rosencrantz and Guildenstern speak with Claudius and Gertrude?

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