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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. How many times does Rosencrantz say he has won the game?
(a) Eighty five
(b) Seventy nine
(c) Fifty six
(d) One hundred

2. What two different meanings do they seem to apply to the word madness?
(a) Either jealousy or revenge
(b) Either insanity or anger
(c) Either fear or excitement
(d) Either hate or love

3. Trying to determine what Rosencrantz wants to see, what does the Player mention not too subtly?
(a) Rapes are mentioned and he alludes to wives and "ravished virgins" and asks if he is getting warm.
(b) Bawdy barroom ballads acted out by the mimes as the musician splay and sing
(c) Great Tragedies and comedies they have performed before kings
(d) Adam and Eve in the Garden in their original costumes

4. What is it that Guildenstern still does not know?
(a) What the weather is like
(b) Which way is east
(c) Where they are
(d) Why people come in and out

5. What assumption does the Player make about Rosencrantz and Guildenstern?
(a) The Player states that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are surely fellow artists.
(b) The Player says that they are notable patrons of the arts.
(c) The player says that they are Lords and he recognizes them.
(d) The Player says that they are runaway criminals and he has seen their pictures.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what kind of death does the Player say people only believe?

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

3. Grabbing hold of the Player angrily, how does Guildenstern excuse himself?

4. What is the source of the sounds Rosencrantz had heard?

5. What is Guildenstern's ominous prediction?

(see the answer key)

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