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

2. Leaving Claudius and Gertrude, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are met by which character?
(a) Romeo
(b) Hamlet
(c) Ophelia
(d) Polonius

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

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

5. What assumption does the Player make about Rosencrantz and Guildenstern?
(a) The Player says that they are notable patrons of the arts.
(b) The Player states that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are surely fellow artists.
(c) The player says that they are Lords and he recognizes them.
(d) The Player says that they are runaway criminals and he has seen their pictures.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where did Hamlet say the body of Polonius is?

3. What is the leader of the traveling group called?

4. What does Rosencrantz say as he looks out into the audience?

5. What concession do Rosencrantz and Guildenstern make to Claudius and Gertrude?

(see the answer key)

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