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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the Player's apology to Guildenstern and Rosencrantz?
(a) He says that he was desparate to make money so they could eat.
(b) He says that he had mistaken them for bawdy actors.
(c) He says that he had only been joking with them just for the fun of it.
(d) He says that they should have seen his troupe in better times.

2. What does the Player say to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern upon meeting them on the road?
(a) That there are highwaymen about.
(b) That it is a lucky thing they came along.
(c) They he is surprised to find gentlemen there.
(d) That there is strength in numbers.

3. How does Guildenstern question what is happening with the game?
(a) He questions whether it is luck or lack of faith.
(b) He keeps watching Rosencrantz to see if he cheats.
(c) He wonders whether it is natural or supernatural.
(d) He examines the coins to see if they are double headed.

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

5. Why does Rosencrantz's answer please Guildenstern?
(a) It tells him that Rosencrantz is hiding a secret.
(b) It tells him that he will soon start winning.
(c) It tells him that no natural laws are at work at the moment.
(d) It assures him that the law of self interest is still working.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Rosencrantz begins saying he is afraid, what is it he was going to say before Guildenstern stops him?

2. What does Claudius request of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern?

3. What blunder does Rosencrantz make with the introductions?

4. What strange comparison does Guildenstern make to the coins?

5. What is Rosencrantz's emotional condition as a result of his encounters?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Guildenstern so repulsed by the Player's immoral suggestions for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern?

2. Trying to make sense of their situation, to what does Guildenstern think back?

3. How does the audience understand that Rosencrantz is quite naive?

4. Why do Rosencrantz and Guildenstern speak differently to Claudius and Gertrude?

5. Guildenstern asks Rosencrantz if he appears to be contradicting himself. What is Rosencrantz's odd reply?

6. How does the Player reinforce the idea that the troupe is willing to perform a vulgar show?

7. How does Guildenstern take advantage of the Player?

8. Describe the somewhat bizarre entrance of Hamlet and Ophelia.

9. How does Guildenstern show that he is still being analytical about their situation?

10. When Rosencrantz collects the coin that was under the Player's foot, why does he tell Guildenstern that he was lucky?

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