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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 blunder does Rosencrantz make with the introductions?
(a) He cannot recall Guildenstern's name.
(b) He talks down to the Player as though he were a Lord.
(c) He fails to mention their names.
(d) He confuses their names, calling himself Guildenstern.

2. What is the source of the sounds Rosencrantz had heard?
(a) Six travellers who claim they saw a unicorn
(b) Six "Tragedians" or traveling actors, musicians, and their leader
(c) Six milkmaids heading for the market
(d) Six men on white horses with bells

3. What is the Player's response when Rosencrantz asks if the two of them are enough for an audience?
(a) The Player says it is all right if they pay extra for the show.
(b) The Player says they will have to find more people to attend the show.
(c) He says two is small for an audience but about average for voyeurs.
(d) The Player says they do not have time to put on a show right then.

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

5. What does Guildenstern see when he looks at the coin after trying a new method?
(a) Nothing. The coin has disappeared.
(b) Heads
(c) His hand is dirty.
(d) Tails

Short Answer Questions

1. In what kind of death does the Player say people only believe?

2. What are the lines from Shakespeare's Hamlet, Act II, Scene ii that Hamlet says as Act Two opens?

3. What does Rosencrantz tell Guildenstern he would do if he lost that many times?

4. Who are the well-dressed Elizabethan gentlemen at the opening of the play?

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

(see the answer key)

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