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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1, p. 20-34.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How are Rosencrantz and Guildenstern identified in Stoppard's script?
(a) Ros and Guil
(b) Rose and Guild
(c) Crantz and Stern
(d) Gentleman one and Gentleman two

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

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

4. 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 would feel the same having lost that many times
(c) If he wants to spin one last coin double or nothing
(d) If he wants to spin the coins himself

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What new theory does Guildenstern come up with for his run of bad luck?

2. What is the source of the sounds Rosencrantz had heard?

3. What does the player tell Guildenstern they are more about?

4. Trying to determine what Rosencrantz wants to see, what does the Player mention not too subtly?

5. What does Guildenstern do with the coins he takes out of his bag?

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