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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Rosencrantz say as he looks out into the audience?
2. What happens to the troupe still dressed in their costumes?
3. What do Hamlet, the Player, Rosencrantz, and Guildenstern do when pirates attack?
4. How many corpses does the Player say the drama will have at the end?
5. What surprise does Rosencrantz get when he thinks he's playing with the Queen?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe the hilarious scene involving the belts of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.
2. What advice does Rosencrantz give the Player whose troupe is invited to entertain at court?
3. When Hamlet does return, what does he say about the body?
4. How does Rosencrantz initiate a new coin game?
5. Describe the funny bowing scene with Hamlet and Claudius.
6. What transpires when Rosencrantz brings up the subject of death?
7. What happens when Rosencrantz hears music?
8. The stage is dark when Act 3 begins. Describe what the audience hears.
9. When the lights finally do come up in Act 3, what does the audience see?
10. What is the tragic news Claudius bears when he and Gertrude enter to find Rosencrantz and Guildenstern?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write a paper about minimalist staging of a play. In ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD, there is little in the way of background or props. What methods are used to indicate locations? Why does the audience accept this kind of staging?
Essay Topic 2
Write a paper on the importance of dialogue in a play. Describe how the dialogue in Stoppard's play sounds real as opposed to being contrived. What does an audience get from the dialogueue? How is dialog in a play like telling a story?
Essay Topic 3
Write a paper about premonitions and foreshadowing. Using examples from Stoppard's play, discuss how the recurring theme of death actually forecasts the outcome of the play. How does even the title of the play add to that idea?
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