Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Quiz | Eight Week Quiz D

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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Quiz | Eight Week Quiz D

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1, p. 34-53.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the fanciful conversation started by Guildenstern when Rosencrantz hears a sound.
(a) About the fife and drum
(b) About unicorns
(c) About calssical music
(d) About things that go bump in the night

2. How does Guildenstern question what is happening with the game?
(a) He examines the coins to see if they are double headed.
(b) He questions whether it is luck or lack of faith.
(c) He wonders whether it is natural or supernatural.
(d) He keeps watching Rosencrantz to see if he cheats.

3. Trying to determine what Rosencrantz wants to see, what does the Player mention not too subtly?
(a) Rapes are mentioned and he alludes to wives and "ravished virgins" and asks if he is getting warm.
(b) Bawdy barroom ballads acted out by the mimes as the musician splay and sing
(c) Great Tragedies and comedies they have performed before kings
(d) Adam and Eve in the Garden in their original costumes

4. What event does Guildenstern recall as they talk about questions?
(a) A question for which he had no answer
(b) A man coming to summon them to court
(c) A play he saw about death
(d) A time when he had not studied for an examination

5. How is the Player still trying to appeal to prurient interest to get more money?
(a) He winks at Guildenstern and suggests he would like to participate in something other than fighting.
(b) He asks Guildenstern if he would like the troupe to remove their clothes.
(c) He tells Guildenstern that for a price they will do King Lear in the nude.
(d) He confides to Guildenstern that, for a price, he has a bawdy performance of The Rape of the Sabine Women.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the troupe's cart being pulled?

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

3. What is Rosencrantz's observation about Hamlet?

4. As the scene changes from exterior to interior, who enters the stage?

5. How does Gertrude respond when she hears Guildenstern's prayer?

(see the answer key)

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