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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 strange comparison does Guildenstern make to the coins?
(a) Fish
(b) Apples
(c) Monkeys
(d) Rocks

2. What is the Player's response when Guildenstern asks if the troupe found them by chance?
(a) He says it is in their script.
(b) He says nothing is pure chance.
(c) He says it was.
(d) He says they heard the clinking of his coins.

3. What does Rosencrantz say as he looks out into the audience?
(a) The sun is sinking in the west.
(b) The audience looks asleep.
(c) That must be the raod home.
(d) The direction he is looking must be east.

4. How does Rosencrantz show that he is confused?
(a) He asks which way they entered the room.
(b) He asks Guildenstern what his name is.
(c) He cannot remember the coin game
(d) He asks Guildenstern what just happened.

5. What does Guildenstern do differently the next time he tosses a coin?
(a) He tosses two coins at once.
(b) He lets it land in his other hand.
(c) He rubs the coin on his shirt before tossing it.
(d) He tosses it much farther away.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. After everyone else has left the stage, how does the speech of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern change?

3. What is Rosencrantz's observation about Hamlet?

4. Why does Rosencrantz's answer please Guildenstern?

5. What question does Guildenstern put to the Player?

(see the answer key)

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