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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Rosencrantz's prophetic remark after Hamlet enters with the soldier?
(a) He says that "Everything has been crazy all day."
(b) He says that "I think we will have them go with Hamlet."
(c) He says that "They will never be allowed to go home at this rate."
(d) Rosencrantz remarks that "They will have us hanging about till we're dead."

2. To lighten the discussion, what does Rosencrantz tell Guildenstern?
(a) The story of a man buried alive
(b) The burial practices of elephants
(c) Silly and meaningless jokes about life and death
(d) How coffins were invented

3. What do Rosencrantz and Guildenstern hear as they discuss the letter the next morning?
(a) Marching
(b) Cannons
(c) Horses
(d) Music

4. What does Rosencrantz ask Guildenstern about death?
(a) If he has ever thought of himself as dead, in a box with a lid on it
(b) If he thinks he will never die
(c) If he is afraid to face death
(d) If he thinks death is like falling asleep for a while

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

6. When the King wants to see Hamlet, what does Rosencrantz do?
(a) Orders Guildenstern to go get him
(b) Starts shouting Hamlet's name
(c) Runs off stage
(d) Looks around to see if he came back

7. What is the Player's response when Guildenstern asks where he is going?
(a) The Player retorts that he can come and go as he pleases.
(b) The Player responds that he is going to find Hamlet.
(c) The Player tells him he is going to wash costumes.
(d) The Player answers that he is going to Denmark.

8. What do the sounds in the background at the opening of Act III suggest?
(a) That the scene is in a carriage.
(b) That a battle is going on
(c) That the scene is in a jail
(d) That the scene is on a ship

9. Where did Hamlet say the body of Polonius is?
(a) With the King
(b) With Ophelia
(c) In the river
(d) In the chapel

10. What makes Rosencrantz and Guildenstern laugh at this new coin game?
(a) Guildenstern wins back all his coins
(b) The coin fall on tails every time
(c) Both of Rosencrantz's hands are empty
(d) They have invented a new game

11. What is the new game Rosencrantz and Guildenstern play with a coin?
(a) Tossing the coin back and forth between them
(b) Seeing if they can make the coin stand on edge
(c) Balancing the coin on their noses
(d) Guessing which hand the coin is in

12. What do they bicker about?
(a) What they are expected to do next.
(b) Who has the best money bag.
(c) Who can spin a coin the longest.
(d) How much the King gave each of them for the journey.

13. When they open the letter, what is in it?
(a) Hamlet is exiled to England.
(b) Hamlet will be sent on to the colonies.
(c) Hamlet is to be beheaded.
(d) Hamlet is to marry the King's daugher.

14. During rehearsal, what is it that the Player says the troupe does really well?
(a) Bawdy scenes
(b) Love scenes
(c) Death scenes
(d) Action scenes

15. What do Rosencrantz and Guildenstern threaten to do to the Player?
(a) Dance on his grave
(b) Cut out his tongue
(c) Expose him for a fraud
(d) Have him arrested

Short Answer Questions

1. What two different meanings do they seem to apply to the word madness?

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

3. What play does Hamlet ask the Player if his troupe can perform?

4. Who is standing upstage and lights a lantern?

5. What does Claudius tell Guildenstern and Rosencrantz?

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