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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 does Gertrude tell Rosencrantz and Guildenstern?
(a) There are two of them and Hamlet is alone.
(b) They should get Ophelia to help them.
(c) Hamlet will talk to them because they are strangers.
(d) Hamlet has spoken of them and that she knows how fond of them he is.

2. What does Rosencrantz say that Guildenstern must be feeling?
(a) Anger
(b) Weariness
(c) Boredom
(d) Poorer

3. How is it obvious that the two men have been playing the gambling game for a long time?
(a) Rosencrantz keeps saying he is tired of playing the game.
(b) Guildenstern's bag is nearly empty while Rosencrantz's bag is full.
(c) Guildenstern asks Rosencrantz to loan him more coins.
(d) There are coins scattered all over the stage.

4. When the troupe moves on, why does the Player stand in one place?
(a) He is drunk and cannot walk.
(b) His foot is on Guildenstern's coin.
(c) He waits for Guildenstern to give him permission to leave.
(d) He's waiting for guildenstern to pay him.

5. How does Hamlet react when Rosencrantz and Guildenstern confront him?
(a) Hamlet shouts and runs off stage.
(b) Hamlet refers to them as friends and asks how they are.
(c) Hamlet does not recognize them.
(d) Hamlet asks them what they are doing at court.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Gertrude respond when she hears Guildenstern's prayer?

2. How is the troupe's cart being pulled?

3. What are Guildenstern's suggestions for him and Rosencrantz in this strange situation?

4. Where does Rosencrantz want to go?

5. What are the instruments the musicians play?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Describe the dialogue that shows the confusion of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern at this point.

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

6. Why are Guildenstern and Rosencrantz on this road and what has Guildenstern been expecting?

7. What appears to be the relationship between the two men?

8. How does Guildenstern take advantage of the Player?

9. What does Guildenstern's comment that he is afraid today is his day mean?

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

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