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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. What mime does Rosencrantz perform during the discussion of death?
(a) Banging on a coffin lid.
(b) Placing flowers on a grave.
(c) Lying down in a coffin.
(d) Marching in a funeral procession.

2. Who do the two dead spies on stage turn out to be?
(a) Alfred and the Player
(b) Claudius and Gertrude
(c) Guildenstern and Rosencrantz
(d) Hamlet and Ophelia

3. What question does Guildenstern put to Rosencrantz about language?
(a) If he sometimes forgets what he wanted to say.
(b) If he feels more comfortable speaking French.
(c) If ordinary words often sound strange to him.
(d) If he knows the word for housewife in Danish.

4. What is it that Guildenstern still does not know?
(a) What the weather is like
(b) Where they are
(c) Which way is east
(d) Why people come in and out

5. What is Hamlet doing?
(a) Reading a book
(b) Dragging the body of Polonius
(c) Carrying a bloody daggar
(d) Looking for Ophelia

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Rosencrantz's reaction to the way the game keeps going?

2. What does Rosencrantz say that Guildenstern must be feeling?

3. How does Hamlet slip away from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern?

4. What game do they play to occupy the time?

5. What is Rosencrantz's emotional condition as a result of his encounters?

(see the answer key)

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