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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 Guildenstern do with a dagger he takes from the Player?

2. To lighten the discussion, what does Rosencrantz tell Guildenstern?

3. What does Rosencrantz ask Guildenstern about death?

4. What does Guildenstern say about Hamlet?

5. When they open the letter, what is in it?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Rosencrantz hears music?

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

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

4. What is the lie Rosencrantz tells Claudius?

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

6. What blunder does Rosencrantz make over what he thinks is a woman?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write a paper describing the characters of Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, and the Player as you see them? What are their strengths and weaknesses? How well do you like them? Can you recall people from real life that are similar?

Essay Topic 2

Write a paper contrasting chance and destiny. Do you believe in destiny or fate? If so, why, and if not, why not?

Essay Topic 3

Write a paper on costuming for a play. Hamlet has been staged often in modern dress. Why, then, is it important in Stoppard's play that the costumes be Elizabethan? What do you think the costumes add to the play?

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