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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 2, p. 55-84.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Hamlet address Rosencrantz when he pulls him aside?
(a) As my dearest friend
(b) As Polonius
(c) As Guildenstern
(d) As Ophelia

2. How does Guildenstern see the way the game keeps going?
(a) He thinks he must continue to entertain Rosencrantz.
(b) He does not think about it.
(c) He think Rosencrantz is cheating, but he cannot prove it.
(d) He sees it as odd, perhaps an omen.

3. What question does Guildenstern put to the Player?
(a) He asks where they can find Hamlet.
(b) He asks which way is north.
(c) He asks the Player what he and Rosencrantz are supposed to do.
(d) He asks what he and Rosencrantz need to know.

4. What does the Player try to explain to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern?
(a) How he happens to be at court
(b) What his relationship to Hamlet is
(c) How important the audience is to the performance
(d) Why he lied about doing The Murder of Gonzago

5. What type of performance does the Player say they can put on for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern?
(a) Comedies that will give them stitches in their sides
(b) Tragedy to include deaths, disclosures, unexpected turns of events, and even transvestite melodrama
(c) Only a few plays that they have memorized
(d) Mimes and dance accompanied by their musicians

Short Answer Questions

1. Who enters after Hamlet and Ophelia exit the stage?

2. As the scene changes from exterior to interior, who enters the stage?

3. Trying to determine what Rosencrantz wants to see, what does the Player mention not too subtly?

4. What do Rosencrantz and Guildenstern threaten to do to the Player?

5. Who are the well-dressed Elizabethan gentlemen at the opening of the play?

(see the answer key)

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