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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1, p. 20-34.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Player say to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern upon meeting them on the road?
(a) That there is strength in numbers.
(b) That it is a lucky thing they came along.
(c) They he is surprised to find gentlemen there.
(d) That there are highwaymen about.

2. What is the source of the sounds Rosencrantz had heard?
(a) Six milkmaids heading for the market
(b) Six "Tragedians" or traveling actors, musicians, and their leader
(c) Six men on white horses with bells
(d) Six travellers who claim they saw a unicorn

3. What does Rosencrantz tell Guildenstern he would do if he lost that many times?
(a) Keep playing until he started to win
(b) Examine the coins
(c) Quit before he lost everything
(d) Draw his sword

4. When Guildenstern insists their meeting must have been chance, how does the Player reply?
(a) There is no chance of chance.
(b) It might have been fate.
(c) It was written into a script.
(d) Stranger things have happened.

5. How is the Player still trying to appeal to prurient interest to get more money?
(a) He winks at Guildenstern and suggests he would like to participate in something other than fighting.
(b) He asks Guildenstern if he would like the troupe to remove their clothes.
(c) He confides to Guildenstern that, for a price, he has a bawdy performance of The Rape of the Sabine Women.
(d) He tells Guildenstern that for a price they will do King Lear in the nude.

Short Answer Questions

1. What blunder does Rosencrantz make with the introductions?

2. What is Guildenstern's angry reply to the Player's suggestion?

3. What does Guildenstern want to know if the troupe knows?

4. What strange comparison does Guildenstern make to the coins?

5. How does Guildenstern reply to Rosencrantz's idea about how Guildenstern must be feeling?

(see the answer key)

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