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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 they bicker about?
(a) Who has the best money bag.
(b) What they are expected to do next.
(c) How much the King gave each of them for the journey.
(d) Who can spin a coin the longest.

2. What makes Rosencrantz and Guildenstern laugh at this new coin game?
(a) They have invented a new game
(b) Guildenstern wins back all his coins
(c) Both of Rosencrantz's hands are empty
(d) The coin fall on tails every time

3. What do the sounds in the background at the opening of Act III suggest?
(a) That the scene is in a jail
(b) That the scene is in a carriage.
(c) That the scene is on a ship
(d) That a battle is going on

4. What does Rosencrantz tell the Player about Hamlet?
(a) That he may be an imposter.
(b) That he won't talk to them.
(c) That he is not acting like himself.
(d) That he keeps changing the subject.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who are the last to die?

2. Who are in the barrels?

3. What is Guildenstern's ominous prediction?

4. Finally what does Rosencrantz decide to do?

5. What is the one bit of knowledge that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are sure of?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Rosencrantz sum up their position?

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

5. What happens when Rosencrantz hears music?

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

7. What happens over the subject of money?

8. After a blackout when someone shouts for the lights to come up, what does the audience see?

9. How does the audience know what the stage setting is in Act 3?

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

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