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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. Beside the two British Ambassadors, what characters from Shakespeare are on stage at the end of the play?
2. What do they bicker about?
3. How does Hamlet slip away from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern?
4. After speaking with Hamlet, what is the condition of Guildenstern and Rosencrantz?
5. What do Rosencrantz and Guildenstern threaten to do to the Player?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does the audience know what the stage setting is in Act 3?
2. When Hamlet enters in Act 2, what does he say?
3. When the lights finally do come up in Act 3, what does the audience see?
4. When Hamlet does return, what does he say about the body?
5. What happens over the subject of money?
6. What is Rosencrantz's dark question on the subject of death?
7. What causes Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to laugh over the new coin game?
8. What advice does Rosencrantz give the Player whose troupe is invited to entertain at court?
9. How does the audience realize that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are really dead?
10. What blunder does Rosencrantz make over what he thinks is a woman?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write a paper on staged plays as opposed to films. Discuss what you think the advantages and disadvantages are of both types. What are the elements of entertainment one gets from the staged play that is missing from a film and vice versa? Give examples from your own experience.
Essay Topic 2
Do some research on the Elizabethan theater and write a paper on how Stoppard's staging of his play borrows from staging during Shakespeare's time. In your paper include how the Player and his troupe were able to stage plays as they moved from place to place.
Essay Topic 3
Write a paper on how effectively you think Stoppard's use of Shakespeare's play works in ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD. Do you think it is necessary to see the Shakespearean play before reading or viewing Stoppard's play? How well do you think Stoppard's use of two otherwise minor characters as the leads works.
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