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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. What does Claudius tell Guildenstern and Rosencrantz?
2. What do they bicker about?
3. Up to this point, how have Rosencrantz and Guildenstern proven to be?
4. What makes Rosencrantz and Guildenstern laugh at this new coin game?
5. Talking about acting on assumptions, what does the Player ask the two men?
Short Essay Questions
1. After a blackout when someone shouts for the lights to come up, what does the audience see?
2. What leads up to the death scene and how does it play out?
3. When the lights finally do come up in Act 3, what does the audience see?
4. Describe the funny bowing scene with Hamlet and Claudius.
5. What game does Rosencrantz initiate on the ship?
6. How does the audience know what the stage setting is in Act 3?
7. Tell about the dialogue between Rosencrantz and Guildenstern after Rosencrantz insists they have permission to leave.
8. How does Rosencrantz sum up their position?
9. What causes Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to laugh over the new coin game?
10. The stage is dark when Act 3 begins. Describe what the audience hears.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write a paper about the use of language styles in Stoppard's play. To what end does Stoppard utilize Elizabethan English in some scenes and modern English in others. Does this also help in identifying locations?
Essay Topic 2
Write a paper on comic relief in a tragedy. Explain why it is a necessary element in a drama that will ultimately end in disaster. Evaluate how well Stoppard uses this tool in his play.
Essay Topic 3
Write a paper about the social position of actors during the Elizabethan age. Using Guildenstern's line that the troupe's company was welcome for lack of any other, explain the contradiction of loving plays while looking down on the players.
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