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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 do Rosencrantz and Guildenstern threaten to do to the Player?
(a) Have him arrested
(b) Cut out his tongue
(c) Dance on his grave
(d) Expose him for a fraud

2. In their conversation, what does the audience gather about Rosencrantz and Guildenstern?
(a) That they never argue bacause they both see things the same way
(b) That they are the butt of a complicated joke
(c) That they are too educated to understand simple minded people
(d) That it clear they never quite know where they are or what is going on

3. As characters enter and exit the stage, what is Rosencrantz's objection?
(a) He complains that he cannot remember their names.
(b) He complains that he never has time to talk to anyone.
(c) He complains that people are always coming and going.
(d) He complains that he never gets to lie down and rest.

4. Finally what does Rosencrantz decide to do?
(a) Play another game of coins
(b) Hit Hamlet over the head
(c) Call for Claudius
(d) Leave for home

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is strange about where Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are throughout the entire play?

2. What is Guildenstern's ominous prediction?

3. How does Stoppard dramatize the death of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern?

4. Why does Rosencrantz have a coin in both hands?

5. What happens when Rosencrantz and Guildenstern make a snare for Hamlet out of their belts?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Hamlet ask the Player?

3. How does the audience realize that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are really dead?

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

5. When Hamlet enters in Act 2, what does he say?

6. What clue is there as to Hamlet's mental condition?

7. What transpires when Rosencrantz brings up the subject of death?

8. How does Rosencrantz sum up their position?

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

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

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