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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 type of performance does the Player say they can put on for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern?
(a) Tragedy to include deaths, disclosures, unexpected turns of events, and even transvestite melodrama
(b) Mimes and dance accompanied by their musicians
(c) Only a few plays that they have memorized
(d) Comedies that will give them stitches in their sides

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

3. When Guildenstern assures Rosencrantz that they will be all right, what is Rosencrantz's reply?
(a) Rosencrantz asks for how long.
(b) Rosencrantz says that is easy for him to say.
(c) Rosencrantz says he has gotten them into a fine mess.
(d) Rosencrantz asks how he knows that.

4. Who enters after Hamlet and Ophelia exit the stage?
(a) Claudius and Gertrude
(b) The Player and the troupe
(c) Ariel and Puck
(d) Julius Caesar and Marc Anthony

5. When the time theory is disproved, what does Guildenstern think of next?
(a) Leprechauns
(b) Pixies
(c) Mental telepathy
(d) Divine intervention

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the Player's response when Rosencrantz asks if the two of them are enough for an audience?

3. What does Guildenstern say will eventually turn the game around?

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

5. What does Guildenstern mean when he says he is afraid, too?

(see the answer key)

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