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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the encounter with Hamlet leave Rosencrantz and Guildenstern?
(a) Confused about who they are
(b) Confused about what Hamlet said
(c) Confused about where they are
(d) Confused about the coin game

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

3. After speaking with Hamlet, what is the condition of Guildenstern and Rosencrantz?
(a) They are satisfied.
(b) They are happy.
(c) They are confused.
(d) They think they know the answer.

4. What makes Hamlet bow?
(a) Thinking of Ophelia
(b) Seeing the Player approach
(c) Tying his shoelace
(d) Seeing Claudius approaching

5. What does Guildenstern do with a dagger he takes from the Player?
(a) He uses it to slice bread.
(b) He plunges it into the Player all the way to the hilt.
(c) He cuts the Player's throat.
(d) He cleans his nails.

6. What does Guildenstern say about death?
(a) He says that death is just a triffle and not worth worring about.
(b) He says that even though he is young, he is ready for death.
(c) He says that anyone can die but it takes a strong will to live.
(d) Guildenstern says that death, for them, is not romantic, not a game soon over.

7. 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.

8. How does Hamlet address Rosencrantz when he pulls him aside?
(a) As my dearest friend
(b) As Polonius
(c) As Ophelia
(d) As Guildenstern

9. What does Hamlet do with the letter he takes from Guildenstern?
(a) He tears it into a thousand pieces.
(b) He burns it with flame from the lantern.
(c) He wads it up and tosses it into the sea.
(d) He goes behind the umbrella and reads it.

10. Where does Hamlet tell Ophelia to go?
(a) A nunnery
(b) To bed
(c) Norway
(d) To Rosencrantz

11. What decision do Rosencrantz and Guildenstern find impossible to make?
(a) Whether to go or stay
(b) Leave in opposite directions from each other
(c) Go looking for Hamlet
(d) Whether to believe anyone who speaks to them

12. When Hamlet says he will be with them shortly, what do Rosencrantz and Guildenstern do?
(a) Wait for him
(b) Say they will stay by his side
(c) Run off
(d) Laugh because they don't believe him

13. Who are the last to die?
(a) The two remaining tragedians are dressed as Rosencrantz and Guildenstern and are stabbed.
(b) Hamlet and the Player swordfight and kill each other.
(c) Hamlet and Ophelia drink poison and die in each other's arms.
(d) The two captured pirates are thrown overboard.

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

15. What is Guildenstern's ominous prediction?
(a) Guildenstern suggests they are in a madhouse.
(b) Guildenstern comments that they are on a path, to which they are condemned.
(c) Guildenstern remarks that they are on trial.
(d) Guildenstern says they will come to no good end.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who are in the barrels?

2. What does Claudius tell Guildenstern and Rosencrantz?

3. How does Stoppard dramatize the death of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern?

4. Where did Hamlet say the body of Polonius is?

5. What does Rosencrantz say as he looks out into the audience?

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