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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. When Guildenstern assures Rosencrantz that they will be all right, what is Rosencrantz's reply?
(a) Rosencrantz asks how he knows that.
(b) Rosencrantz says he has gotten them into a fine mess.
(c) Rosencrantz says that is easy for him to say.
(d) Rosencrantz asks for how long.

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

3. What are Guildenstern's suggestions for him and Rosencrantz in this strange situation?
(a) Be inquisitive and ask a lot of questions.
(b) Be confident, get the answers, and go home.
(c) Be irate and demand to go home.
(d) Be alert, tread carefully, and follow instructions.

4. What type of play does the Player mention that comes at another cost?
(a) Plays from classical Greek drama
(b) Plays that last over three hours
(c) Plays where the audience participates
(d) Plays that have never been performed before

5. How does Guildenstern see the way the game keeps going?
(a) He does not think about it.
(b) He think Rosencrantz is cheating, but he cannot prove it.
(c) He sees it as odd, perhaps an omen.
(d) He thinks he must continue to entertain Rosencrantz.

Short Answer Questions

1. What strange comment does Rosencrantz make about questions?

2. How does Guildenstern question what is happening with the game?

3. What does Guildenstern want to know if the troupe knows?

4. Why does Rosencrantz's answer please Guildenstern?

5. What does Guildenstern suggest they do with Hamlet?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Guildenstern come across as the more intelligent of the two men?

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

4. How does Guildenstern test the oddity of the coin game?

5. What rather unusual encounter do Rosencrantz and Guildenstern then have in the undisclosed location?

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

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

8. What comic relief does the dialogue about home provide for the play?

9. Throughout the play, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern never leave the stage. What stops them from following the Queen's attendants to go find Hamlet?

10. What does Guildenstern say that emphasizes their helplessness in a situation they do not understand?

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