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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 3, p. 97-126.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What two different meanings do they seem to apply to the word madness?
(a) Either hate or love
(b) Either insanity or anger
(c) Either jealousy or revenge
(d) Either fear or excitement

3. What does Claudius ask Rosencrantz and Guildenstern about Polonius?
(a) What they know about him
(b) Who told them he was dead
(c) Why did Hamlet kill him
(d) Where his body is

4. What does Rosencrantz say that Guildenstern must be feeling?
(a) Anger
(b) Poorer
(c) Weariness
(d) Boredom

5. Back inside the castle, what does Rosencrantz declare?
(a) That he does not remember coming inside.
(b) That they are now done with them.
(c) That Claudius is not angry anymore.
(d) That Hamlet has given himself up.

Short Answer Questions

1. What morbid questions does Rosencrantz ask Guildenstern about death?

2. Talking about acting on assumptions, what does the Player ask the two men?

3. What is Hamlet doing?

4. To shouts of "The King rises...Give o'er the play!" and cries for Lights, lights, lights!" how do the lights come up?

5. What is Guildenstern's observation about their strange situation?

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