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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 the new game Rosencrantz and Guildenstern play with a coin?
(a) Balancing the coin on their noses
(b) Guessing which hand the coin is in
(c) Seeing if they can make the coin stand on edge
(d) Tossing the coin back and forth between them

2. What does Rosencrantz ask Guildenstern about death?
(a) If he is afraid to face death
(b) If he thinks death is like falling asleep for a while
(c) If he has ever thought of himself as dead, in a box with a lid on it
(d) If he thinks he will never die

3. In what kind of death does the Player say people only believe?
(a) Death at sea
(b) Death of an actor
(c) Their own death
(d) Death on a stage

4. When Rosencrantz and Guildenstern talk about the weather, what do they decide?
(a) That it's Spring.
(b) That it's unusually cold for this time of year.
(c) That it's warm for Winter.
(d) That it's Autumn.

5. What decision do Rosencrantz and Guildenstern find impossible to make?
(a) Go looking for Hamlet
(b) Leave in opposite directions from each other
(c) Whether to believe anyone who speaks to them
(d) Whether to go or stay

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Hamlet tell Ophelia to go?

2. What does Claudius ask Rosencrantz and Guildenstern about Polonius?

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

4. Beside the two British Ambassadors, what characters from Shakespeare are on stage at the end of the play?

5. Finally what does Rosencrantz decide to do?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. The stage is dark when Act 3 begins. Describe what the audience hears.

3. When Hamlet does return, what does he say about the body?

4. What does Hamlet ask the Player?

5. What happens over the subject of money?

6. What is the tragic news Claudius bears when he and Gertrude enter to find Rosencrantz and Guildenstern?

7. When the lights finally do come up in Act 3, what does the audience see?

8. What game does Rosencrantz initiate on the ship?

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

10. What causes Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to laugh over the new coin game?

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