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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1, p. 34-53.

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 nothing is pure chance.
(c) He says it is in their script.
(d) He says it was.

2. Who are the well-dressed Elizabethan gentlemen at the opening of the play?
(a) Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
(b) Procter and Gamble
(c) Hamlet and Horatio
(d) Claudius and Polonius

3. What is Rosencrantz's observation about Hamlet?
(a) That the problem is more than Hamlet's father's death.
(b) That Hamlet is suffering from amnesia.
(c) That hamlet is just play acting.
(d) That Hamlet just like to be the center of attention.

4. What does Guildenstern suggest they do with Hamlet?
(a) That they should threaten Hamlet.
(b) That they should blackmail Hamlet.
(c) That they should move Hamlet toward pleasurable things
(d) That they should kidnap him.

5. What is Guildenstern's observation about their strange situation?
(a) That it is probably all a dream.
(b) That they are fortunate that they are presented with alternatives.
(c) That it will soon be over and they can go home.
(d) That Claudius will explain everyting to them.

Short Answer Questions

1. As the scene changes from exterior to interior, who enters the stage?

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

3. What does Rosencrantz say that Guildenstern must be feeling?

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

5. How does Rosencrantz show that he is confused?

(see the answer key)

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