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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1, p. 1-20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After trying again and again, what is the score of the game?
(a) 89 to 0
(b) 100 to 0
(c) 121 to 0
(d) 85 to 6

2. How does Guildenstern summarize that day?
(a) They got a message to come quickly but it did not tell them where.
(b) they were sleeping and suddenly found themselves on a road they don't know.
(c) They were awakened at dawn with a message, a summons, and a new record for heads and tails.
(d) Right after breakfast they got a summons for jury duty.

3. What is the ridiculous conversation Rosencrantz initiates about fingernails and beards?
(a) Whether they are like toenails
(b) Whether they should be worn long or short
(c) Whether they grow at the same rate
(d) Whether they grow before birth and after death

4. Still trying to explain his run of bad luck, why does Guildenstern think about time?
(a) He wonders if it has stood still and he has actually spun the coin only once.
(b) He wonders if time is actually going backward making his spins go the opposite way.
(c) He wonders if the time of day is affecting the magnetic fields.
(d) He wonders if his timing is all wrong when spinning the coins.

5. What question does Guildenstern press on Rosencrantz during their discussion of the game?
(a) If he knows any other game they could play
(b) If he wants to spin the coins himself
(c) If he would feel the same having lost that many times
(d) If he wants to spin one last coin double or nothing

Short Answer Questions

1. How are Rosencrantz and Guildenstern identified in Stoppard's script?

2. What does Guildenstern see when he looks at the coin after trying a new method?

3. Why does Rosencrantz's answer please Guildenstern?

4. What does Guildenstern do differently the next time he tosses a coin?

5. When Rosencrantz begins saying he is afraid, what is it he was going to say before Guildenstern stops him?

(see the answer key)

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