Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Test | Final Test - Easy

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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Test | Final Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is standing upstage and lights a lantern?
(a) Alfred
(b) Hamlet
(c) The Player
(d) Claudius

2. What game do they play to occupy the time?
(a) A game of chess
(b) Twenty questions
(c) The guessing game with coins
(d) The coin spinning game

3. When Hamlet, Polonius, and Ophelia exit, where are they apparently going?
(a) Denmark
(b) Norway
(c) England
(d) France

4. What happens when Rosencrantz and Guildenstern make a snare for Hamlet out of their belts?
(a) The belts are not long enough.
(b) Rosencrantz's pants fall down around his ankles.
(c) Guildenstern's belt breaks.
(d) Hamlet sees them and runs away.

5. What does Guildenstern say about Hamlet?
(a) That he loves to play word games.
(b) That he is a practical joker.
(c) That he is moody and melancholy.
(d) That there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with him.

6. Beside the two British Ambassadors, what characters from Shakespeare are on stage at the end of the play?
(a) Othello and Iago
(b) Ophelia and Gertrude
(c) Horatio and Fortinbras
(d) Julius Caesar and Marc Anthony

7. How does Hamlet slip away from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern?
(a) When the lights go out, Hamlet disappears.
(b) When the troupe comes between them, Hamlet runs.
(c) When they bow low, he walks away and they do not see him.
(d) When they turn to see Claudius, he slips away quietly.

8. Finally what does Rosencrantz decide to do?
(a) Play another game of coins
(b) Call for Claudius
(c) Leave for home
(d) Hit Hamlet over the head

9. What morbid questions does Rosencrantz ask Guildenstern about death?
(a) Do you think the ship will sink?
(b) Do you think death awaits us in England?
(c) Do you think death could possibly be a boat?
(d) Do you think death hurts a lot?

10. Talking about acting on assumptions, what does the Player ask the two men?
(a) He asks them what it is that they assume.
(b) He asks them if they understand the word, assume.
(c) He asks them why they didn't know that.
(d) He asks them if they are ready to assume.

11. What does Claudius ask Rosencrantz and Guildenstern about Polonius?
(a) Where his body is
(b) Who told them he was dead
(c) Why did Hamlet kill him
(d) What they know about him

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

13. Still in the dark, what do the two realize?
(a) They are in a moving carriage.
(b) They have escaped from the castle.
(c) They can still talk, think, and feel.
(d) They are chained to a wall.

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

15. What is seen in their failure to trap Hamlet with their belts?
(a) That they are once again inept or helpless
(b) That Guldenstern is wearing two belts
(c) That Rosencrantz wears his pants too large
(d) That they are clever but unlucky

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rosencrantz say when Guildenstern wonders if they will ever return?

2. What is the Player's response when Guildenstern asks where he is going?

3. What does Claudius tell Guildenstern and Rosencrantz?

4. When Hamlet says he will be with them shortly, what do Rosencrantz and Guildenstern do?

5. What happens when Rosencrantz kicks one of the large barrels?

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