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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 type of performance does the Player say they can put on for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern?
(a) Only a few plays that they have memorized
(b) Comedies that will give them stitches in their sides
(c) Mimes and dance accompanied by their musicians
(d) Tragedy to include deaths, disclosures, unexpected turns of events, and even transvestite melodrama

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

3. What does Guildenstern want to know if the troupe knows?
(a) Any popular songs
(b) Any plays
(c) Any playwrights
(d) Any famous people

4. When Guildenstern insists their meeting must have been chance, how does the Player reply?
(a) It was written into a script.
(b) Stranger things have happened.
(c) It might have been fate.
(d) There is no chance of chance.

5. What type of play does the Player mention that comes at another cost?
(a) Plays from classical Greek drama
(b) Plays where the audience participates
(c) Plays that have never been performed before
(d) Plays that last over three hours

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rosencrantz remember about Hamlet?

2. What is Rosencrantz's prophetic remark after Hamlet enters with the soldier?

3. What does the Player say to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern upon meeting them on the road?

4. What is Guildenstern's angry reply to the Player's suggestion?

5. What decision do Rosencrantz and Guildenstern find impossible to make?

(see the answer key)

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