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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. What does Gertrude tell Rosencrantz and Guildenstern?
(a) Hamlet will talk to them because they are strangers.
(b) They should get Ophelia to help them.
(c) Hamlet has spoken of them and that she knows how fond of them he is.
(d) There are two of them and Hamlet is alone.

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

3. To shouts of "The King rises...Give o'er the play!" and cries for Lights, lights, lights!" how do the lights come up?
(a) As moonlight
(b) As sunrise
(c) As twinkling candles
(d) As late afternoon

4. How does Hamlet address Rosencrantz when he pulls him aside?
(a) As my dearest friend
(b) As Polonius
(c) As Ophelia
(d) As Guildenstern

5. What is Alfred's reply when Guildenstern asks if he likes being an actor?
(a) He says he always wanted to be an actor.
(b) He says he never really thought about it.
(c) He says it's an easy way to earn a living.
(d) He says he does not.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the King wants to see Hamlet, what does Rosencrantz do?

2. How does Guildenstern win money from the Player and the troupe?

3. Grabbing hold of the Player angrily, how does Guildenstern excuse himself?

4. What question does Guildenstern put to the Player?

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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