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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 question does Guildenstern put to Rosencrantz about language?
(a) If ordinary words often sound strange to him.
(b) If he feels more comfortable speaking French.
(c) If he knows the word for housewife in Danish.
(d) If he sometimes forgets what he wanted to say.

2. What does Guildenstern see when he looks at the coin after trying a new method?
(a) Tails
(b) His hand is dirty.
(c) Heads
(d) Nothing. The coin has disappeared.

3. 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 thinks he must continue to entertain Rosencrantz.
(d) He sees it as odd, perhaps an omen.

4. What indicates that Guildenstern may also be a bit confused?
(a) He forgets what he is saying in his conversation.
(b) He asks if he is contradicting himself in his conversation.
(c) He keeps repeating himself in his conversation.
(d) He asks if anything he says makes sense in his conversation.

5. Who are the well-dressed Elizabethan gentlemen at the opening of the play?
(a) Hamlet and Horatio
(b) Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
(c) Procter and Gamble
(d) Claudius and Polonius

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Rosencrantz's answer please Guildenstern?

2. What is Rosencrantz's reaction to the way the game keeps going?

3. What is the fanciful conversation started by Guildenstern when Rosencrantz hears a sound.

4. Still trying to explain his run of bad luck, why does Guildenstern think about time?

5. How does Guildenstern win money from the Player and the troupe?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What type of show does the Player attempt to offer Rosencrantz and Guildenstern?

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

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