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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 Rosencrantz say as he looks out into the audience?
(a) The sun is sinking in the west.
(b) The audience looks asleep.
(c) That must be the raod home.
(d) The direction he is looking must be east.

2. Beside the two British Ambassadors, what characters from Shakespeare are on stage at the end of the play?
(a) Ophelia and Gertrude
(b) Othello and Iago
(c) Julius Caesar and Marc Anthony
(d) Horatio and Fortinbras

3. What makes Hamlet bow?
(a) Tying his shoelace
(b) Seeing Claudius approaching
(c) Thinking of Ophelia
(d) Seeing the Player approach

4. What is Rosencrantz's prophetic remark after Hamlet enters with the soldier?
(a) Rosencrantz remarks that "They will have us hanging about till we're dead."
(b) He says that "Everything has been crazy all day."
(c) He says that "They will never be allowed to go home at this rate."
(d) He says that "I think we will have them go with Hamlet."

5. What does Hamlet do with the letter he takes from Guildenstern?
(a) He tears it into a thousand pieces.
(b) He wads it up and tosses it into the sea.
(c) He goes behind the umbrella and reads it.
(d) He burns it with flame from the lantern.

Short Answer Questions

1. What decision do Rosencrantz and Guildenstern find impossible to make?

2. To lighten the discussion, what does Rosencrantz tell Guildenstern?

3. What do they bicker about?

4. In what kind of death does the Player say people only believe?

5. What is Rosencrantz's response when Guildenstern asks how his leg feels?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the funny bowing scene with Hamlet and Claudius.

2. What is Guildenstern's rationale for not catching Hamlet?

3. What happens over the subject of money?

4. What game does Rosencrantz initiate on the ship?

5. What are Rosencrantz and Guildenstern doing at the beginning of Act 2?

6. What is Rosencrantz's dark question on the subject of death?

7. What is the lie Rosencrantz tells Claudius?

8. What leads up to the death scene and how does it play out?

9. What happens when the King orders Guildenstern to go and bring Hamlet?

10. What advice does Rosencrantz give the Player whose troupe is invited to entertain at court?

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