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

2. Leaving Claudius and Gertrude, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are met by which character?
(a) Romeo
(b) Hamlet
(c) Polonius
(d) Ophelia

3. What does Guildenstern want to know if the troupe knows?
(a) Any plays
(b) Any playwrights
(c) Any popular songs
(d) Any famous people

4. What does the player tell Guildenstern they are more about?
(a) The school of ballet
(b) The blood, love, and rhetoric school
(c) The stand-up comedy school
(d) The school of mimery

5. In what way is Rosencrantz defensive as he discusses the game with Guildenstern?
(a) He points out that Guildenstern has done all the spinning.
(b) He declares that he always has good luck at gambling.
(c) He offers to give back all the coins.
(d) He suggests that guildenstern is trying to lose.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. After trying again and again, what is the score of the game?

4. How is it obvious that the two men have been playing the gambling game for a long time?

5. How is the Player still trying to appeal to prurient interest to get more money?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Rosencrantz and Guildenstern as the play opens.

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

3. How does Guildenstern take advantage of the Player?

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

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

6. How does Guildenstern continue trying to analyze the situation?

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

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

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

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

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