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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. How does Guildenstern see the way the game keeps going?
(a) He sees it as odd, perhaps an omen.
(b) He think Rosencrantz is cheating, but he cannot prove it.
(c) He thinks he must continue to entertain Rosencrantz.
(d) He does not think about it.
2. How does Guildenstern question what is happening with the game?
(a) He examines the coins to see if they are double headed.
(b) He questions whether it is luck or lack of faith.
(c) He wonders whether it is natural or supernatural.
(d) He keeps watching Rosencrantz to see if he cheats.
3. Trying to determine what Rosencrantz wants to see, what does the Player mention not too subtly?
(a) Adam and Eve in the Garden in their original costumes
(b) Rapes are mentioned and he alludes to wives and "ravished virgins" and asks if he is getting warm.
(c) Bawdy barroom ballads acted out by the mimes as the musician splay and sing
(d) Great Tragedies and comedies they have performed before kings
4. Still trying to explain his run of bad luck, why does Guildenstern think about time?
(a) He wonders if his timing is all wrong when spinning the coins.
(b) He wonders if the time of day is affecting the magnetic fields.
(c) He wonders if it has stood still and he has actually spun the coin only once.
(d) He wonders if time is actually going backward making his spins go the opposite way.
5. What is the Player's apology to Guildenstern and Rosencrantz?
(a) He says that he was desparate to make money so they could eat.
(b) He says that he had mistaken them for bawdy actors.
(c) He says that they should have seen his troupe in better times.
(d) He says that he had only been joking with them just for the fun of it.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Guildenstern want to know if the troupe knows?
2. When Guildenstern insists their meeting must have been chance, how does the Player reply?
3. What does Rosencrantz say that Guildenstern must be feeling?
4. How is the Player still trying to appeal to prurient interest to get more money?
5. What is the Player's response when Rosencrantz asks if the two of them are enough for an audience?
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