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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 Rosencrantz begins saying he is afraid, what is it he was going to say before Guildenstern stops him?
(a) That it just wasn't Guildenstern's day.
(b) That they must be dreaming.
(c) That something was dreadfully wrong.
(d) That he was becoming tired of playing.

2. What is Rosencrantz's reply when Guildenstern asks if he contradicts himself?
(a) Rosencrantz pretends he doesn't hear Guildenstern.
(b) Rosencrantz asks if he is talking to him.
(c) Rosencrantz assures him he is not.
(d) Rosencrantz asks what they have to go on.

3. What does the player tell Guildenstern they are more about?
(a) The school of mimery
(b) The stand-up comedy school
(c) The school of ballet
(d) The blood, love, and rhetoric school

4. Where does Hamlet tell Ophelia to go?
(a) To Rosencrantz
(b) To bed
(c) A nunnery
(d) Norway

5. What is it that Guildenstern still does not know?
(a) Why people come in and out
(b) Which way is east
(c) What the weather is like
(d) Where they are

Short Answer Questions

1. How is it obvious that the two men have been playing the gambling game for a long time?

2. What exchange is there between Hamlet and Ophelia?

3. Up to this point, how have Rosencrantz and Guildenstern proven to be?

4. What does Guildenstern explain to Rosencrantz about Hamlet's whereabouts?

5. What is the new game Rosencrantz and Guildenstern play with a coin?

(see the answer key)

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