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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 2, p. 84-95.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the Player's response when Guildenstern asks where he is going?
(a) The Player retorts that he can come and go as he pleases.
(b) The Player responds that he is going to find Hamlet.
(c) The Player answers that he is going to Denmark.
(d) The Player tells him he is going to wash costumes.

2. What are the lines from Shakespeare's Hamlet, Act II, Scene ii that Hamlet says as Act Two opens?
(a) S'blood, there is something in this more than natural, if philosophy could find it out.
(b) The forest is coming to Elsinore.
(c) Out, out, damned spot.
(d) Alas, poor Yorick, I knew him well.

3. How much does the Player say it will cost for them to perform a gory romance?
(a) A coin for each actor
(b) A small bag of coins
(c) A single coin
(d) A handful of coins

4. What does Rosencrantz say that Guildenstern must be feeling?
(a) Anger
(b) Poorer
(c) Weariness
(d) Boredom

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) Only a few plays that they have memorized
(c) Mimes and dance accompanied by their musicians
(d) Tragedy to include deaths, disclosures, unexpected turns of events, and even transvestite melodrama

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Hamlet say the body of Polonius is?

2. What is Alfred's reply when Guildenstern asks if he likes being an actor?

3. When the time theory is disproved, what does Guildenstern think of next?

4. How does Hamlet react when Rosencrantz and Guildenstern confront him?

5. What play does Hamlet ask the Player if his troupe can perform?

(see the answer key)

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