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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As Rosencrantz and Guildenstern practice questioning one another, how do they keep score?
(a) They get ten points for each unanswerable question.
(b) They make tally marks on the ground.
(c) Rosencrantz uses tennis term to keep score, but nothing makes sense.
(d) Rosencrantz gives guildenstern a coin for each correct answer.

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

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

4. When the troupe runs out of money, what do they offer Guildenstern?
(a) Bread
(b) Musical instruments
(c) Alfred
(d) A show

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

6. What does Guildenstern continue doing with the coin tosses?
(a) Trying different ways of tossing them
(b) Biting them before tossing them
(c) Using only the heaviest coins
(d) Saying a prayer before tossing them

7. What new theory does Guildenstern come up with for his run of bad luck?
(a) That his arm has grown too tired to toss properly.
(b) That the coins are heavier on one side than the other.
(c) That he is somehow willing for Rosencrantz to win.
(d) That he needs to learn how to toss coins.

8. As the scene changes from exterior to interior, who enters the stage?
(a) Ariel and Puck
(b) Anthony and Cleopatra
(c) Romeo and Juliet
(d) Hamlet and Ophelia

9. What is Rosencrantz's observation about Hamlet?
(a) That Hamlet just like to be the center of attention.
(b) That Hamlet is suffering from amnesia.
(c) That hamlet is just play acting.
(d) That the problem is more than Hamlet's father's death.

10. What does the Player do when Rosencrantz tosses a coin on the ground in front of the Player?
(a) The Player spits on the coin.
(b) The Player challenges to throw more coins.
(c) The Player looks at it and declares it heads.
(d) The Player falls to his knees scrambling for the coin.

11. Trying to determine what Rosencrantz wants to see, what does the Player mention not too subtly?
(a) Adam and Eve in the Garden in their original costumes
(b) Bawdy barroom ballads acted out by the mimes as the musician splay and sing
(c) Rapes are mentioned and he alludes to wives and "ravished virgins" and asks if he is getting warm.
(d) Great Tragedies and comedies they have performed before kings

12. Leaving Claudius and Gertrude, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are met by which character?
(a) Romeo
(b) Ophelia
(c) Polonius
(d) Hamlet

13. When Guildenstern insists their meeting must have been chance, how does the Player reply?
(a) It was written into a script.
(b) Stranger things have happened.
(c) There is no chance of chance.
(d) It might have been fate.

14. What is Polonius' message for Claudius?
(a) That Hamlet is suicidal
(b) That the ambassadors from Norway have returned
(c) That the Danish army is revolting
(d) That Ophelia has lost her mind

15. What does the player tell Guildenstern they are more about?
(a) The blood, love, and rhetoric school
(b) The stand-up comedy school
(c) The school of ballet
(d) The school of mimery

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Guildenstern do differently the next time he tosses a coin?

2. Why does Rosencrantz's answer please Guildenstern?

3. What does Guildenstern do with the coins he takes out of his bag?

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

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

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