Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 144 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 144 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Leaving Claudius and Gertrude, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are met by which character?

2. When the troupe runs out of money, what do they offer Guildenstern?

3. What exchange is there between Hamlet and Ophelia?

4. Who enters after Hamlet and Ophelia exit the stage?

5. What does Guildenstern suggest they do with Hamlet?

Short Essay Questions

1. What type of show does the Player attempt to offer Rosencrantz and Guildenstern?

2. How does Guildenstern continue trying to analyze the situation?

3. How does Guildenstern show that he is still being analytical about their situation?

4. Trying to make sense of their situation, to what does Guildenstern think back?

5. How does Guildenstern attempt to change the subject away from the coins?

6. How does the Player reinforce the idea that the troupe is willing to perform a vulgar show?

7. What things are troubling Rosencrantz as he and Guildenstern are once again left alone on the stage?

8. How does Guildenstern come across as the more intelligent of the two men?

9. How does Gertrude reinforce the idea that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are friends of Hamlet's?

10. Guildenstern asks Rosencrantz if he appears to be contradicting himself. What is Rosencrantz's odd reply?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write a paper describing the characters of Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, and the Player as you see them? What are their strengths and weaknesses? How well do you like them? Can you recall people from real life that are similar?

Essay Topic 2

Write a paper on the tangled web we weave when we practice to deceive. Using the lies Rosencrantz and Guildenstern told Claudius about the whereabouts of Hamlet, discuss in your paper how telling lies almost always ends in difficult situations. Give a real world example.

Essay Topic 3

Write a paper on madness. Using Hamlet as an example, write about the different ways he appears as mad in the play. Describe the moments in the play when Hamlet seems lucid and behaves like a normal person. Give your opinion about whether Hamlet was acting from madness when he wrote the additional scene to The Murder of Gonzalo.

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