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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 2, p. 55-84.

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) It was written into a script.
(c) Stranger things have happened.
(d) It might have been fate.

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

3. What surprise does Rosencrantz get when he thinks he's playing with the Queen?
(a) It is Ophelia.
(b) It is a maid.
(c) It is the boy, Alfred.
(d) It is Hamlet in a dress.

4. What strange comment does Rosencrantz make about questions?
(a) That questions give him a headache.
(b) That questions always lead to more questions.
(c) That he remembers when there were no questions.
(d) That he understands the questions but has no answers.

5. What is Guildenstern's angry reply to the Player's suggestion?
(a) He draws his sword and tells the Player if he suggests that again, he will kill him.
(b) He laughs in the Player's face and calls him stupid.
(c) He calls the Player a pimp and orders him to leave with his troupe.
(d) He says he was prepared for any kind of messenger, but instead he is approached by prostitutes.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Rosencrantz collects the coin, why does he say Guildenstern was lucky?

2. Guildenstern is aware that the game defies _________________________.

3. Of what does Guildenstern say they can be sure?

4. Still trying to explain his run of bad luck, why does Guildenstern think about time?

5. What is the Player's response when Rosencrantz asks if the two of them are enough for an audience?

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