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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 2, p. 84-95.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is seen in their failure to trap Hamlet with their belts?
(a) That they are once again inept or helpless
(b) That Guldenstern is wearing two belts
(c) That Rosencrantz wears his pants too large
(d) That they are clever but unlucky

3. How is the troupe's cart being pulled?
(a) By two donkeys
(b) By the two musicians
(c) By two white horses
(d) By two of the actors

4. What is the Player's apology to Guildenstern and Rosencrantz?
(a) He says that he was desparate to make money so they could eat.
(b) He says that they should have seen his troupe in better times.
(c) He says that he had mistaken them for bawdy actors.
(d) He says that he had only been joking with them just for the fun of it.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When Rosencrantz and Guildenstern talk about the weather, what do they decide?

2. What is strange about where Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are throughout the entire play?

3. What blunder does Rosencrantz make with the introductions?

4. What does Rosencrantz say when Guildenstern wonders if they will ever return?

5. How is the Player still trying to appeal to prurient interest to get more money?

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