Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Quiz | Eight Week Quiz B

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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Quiz | Eight Week Quiz B

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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 is the Player's response when Guildenstern asks if the troupe found them by chance?
(a) He says they heard the clinking of his coins.
(b) He says it is in their script.
(c) He says it was.
(d) He says nothing is pure chance.

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

3. What does Guildenstern do with the coins he takes out of his bag?
(a) Buys fruit
(b) Bites them
(c) Gives them to beggars
(d) Spins them

4. What is Alfred's response when Guildenstern suggests they could set a dramatic precedent?
(a) He asks what a precedent is.
(b) He runs for his costume.
(c) He begins to cry.
(d) He starts dancing around.

5. 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) Great Tragedies and comedies they have performed before kings
(c) Rapes are mentioned and he alludes to wives and "ravished virgins" and asks if he is getting warm.
(d) Bawdy barroom ballads acted out by the mimes as the musician splay and sing

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the Player so happy to see the two men?

2. How is the Player still trying to appeal to prurient interest to get more money?

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

4. What is the leader of the traveling group called?

5. What does Guildenstern do differently the next time he tosses a coin?

(see the answer key)

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