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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 Rosencrantz's observation about Hamlet?
(a) That Hamlet is suffering from amnesia.
(b) That hamlet is just play acting.
(c) That Hamlet just like to be the center of attention.
(d) That the problem is more than Hamlet's father's death.

2. Guildenstern is aware that the game defies _________________________.
(a) The law of probability
(b) The law of the land
(c) The law of gravity
(d) The law of geometry

3. How are Rosencrantz and Guildenstern identified in Stoppard's script?
(a) Gentleman one and Gentleman two
(b) Rose and Guild
(c) Crantz and Stern
(d) Ros and Guil

4. Where does Rosencrantz want to go?
(a) He wants to go to Spain.
(b) He wants to go home.
(c) He wants to go to church.
(d) He wants to go to Denmark.

5. Of what does Guildenstern say they can be sure?
(a) That they will be at home by nightfall.
(b) That they will make a lot of money this time.
(c) That Hamlet will confide in them.
(d) That the only beginnings and endings are birth and death.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Grabbing hold of the Player angrily, how does Guildenstern excuse himself?

3. What does the player tell Guildenstern they are more about?

4. What does Rosencrantz say that Guildenstern must be feeling?

5. As the scene changes from exterior to interior, who enters the stage?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the Player's misconception about Rosencrantz and Guildenstern?

2. How does the subject of fear affect both Rosencrantz and Guildenstern?

3. What things are troubling Rosencrantz as he and Guildenstern are once again left alone on the stage?

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

5. What is the feeling the audience gets from the strange coin spinning game Guildenstern and Rosencrantz play?

6. How does Guildenstern attempt to change the subject away from the coins?

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

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

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

10. Describe Rosencrantz and Guildenstern as the play opens.

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