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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. If they discover what is troubling Hamlet, what does Rosencrantz want to know?
(a) Will they get a large reward?
(b) Will they be free to go home?
(c) Will they tell anyone?
(d) Will they have to do something else?

2. What is Guildenstern's observation about their strange situation?
(a) That it is probably all a dream.
(b) That Claudius will explain everyting to them.
(c) That it will soon be over and they can go home.
(d) That they are fortunate that they are presented with alternatives.

3. How does Rosencrantz show that he is confused?
(a) He asks which way they entered the room.
(b) He asks Guildenstern what his name is.
(c) He asks Guildenstern what just happened.
(d) He cannot remember the coin game

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

5. How is it obvious that the two men have been playing the gambling game for a long time?
(a) There are coins scattered all over the stage.
(b) Guildenstern's bag is nearly empty while Rosencrantz's bag is full.
(c) Rosencrantz keeps saying he is tired of playing the game.
(d) Guildenstern asks Rosencrantz to loan him more coins.

6. How is the Player still trying to appeal to prurient interest to get more money?
(a) He confides to Guildenstern that, for a price, he has a bawdy performance of The Rape of the Sabine Women.
(b) He asks Guildenstern if he would like the troupe to remove their clothes.
(c) He winks at Guildenstern and suggests he would like to participate in something other than fighting.
(d) He tells Guildenstern that for a price they will do King Lear in the nude.

7. 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

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

9. What does Guildenstern mean when he says he is afraid, too?
(a) He is afraid that it really is his day.
(b) He is afraid that he has run out of coins.
(c) He is afraid that the weather is causing the results.
(d) He is afraid that someone is coming.

10. What is the Player's response when Guildenstern asks if the troupe found them by chance?
(a) He says it is in their script.
(b) He says it was.
(c) He says they heard the clinking of his coins.
(d) He says nothing is pure chance.

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

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

13. What assumption does the Player make about Rosencrantz and Guildenstern?
(a) The player says that they are Lords and he recognizes them.
(b) The Player says that they are runaway criminals and he has seen their pictures.
(c) The Player states that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are surely fellow artists.
(d) The Player says that they are notable patrons of the arts.

14. Why is the Player so happy to see the two men?
(a) To put on a show because they were forgetting their lines
(b) To borrow their cloaks for a show
(c) To get them to tell tales they can act on the stage
(d) To sell them the musical instruments

15. How does Hamlet react when Rosencrantz and Guildenstern confront him?
(a) Hamlet asks them what they are doing at court.
(b) Hamlet does not recognize them.
(c) Hamlet refers to them as friends and asks how they are.
(d) Hamlet shouts and runs off stage.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what way is Rosencrantz defensive as he discusses the game with Guildenstern?

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

3. What are the instruments the musicians play?

4. What type of play does the Player mention that comes at another cost?

5. What does Claudius request of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern?

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