Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Quiz | Eight Week Quiz C

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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Quiz | Eight Week Quiz C

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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 does Rosencrantz say he remembers about questions in the past?
(a) That there were answers for everything.
(b) That only simple questions were asked.
(c) That questions never bothered him then.
(d) That he never knew the answers.

2. How is the Player still trying to appeal to prurient interest to get more money?
(a) He tells Guildenstern that for a price they will do King Lear in the nude.
(b) He confides to Guildenstern that, for a price, he has a bawdy performance of The Rape of the Sabine Women.
(c) He winks at Guildenstern and suggests he would like to participate in something other than fighting.
(d) He asks Guildenstern if he would like the troupe to remove their clothes.

3. What type of play does the Player mention that comes at another cost?
(a) Plays from classical Greek drama
(b) Plays that have never been performed before
(c) Plays where the audience participates
(d) Plays that last over three hours

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

5. What question does Guildenstern press on Rosencrantz during their discussion of the game?
(a) If he would feel the same having lost that many times
(b) If he wants to spin one last coin double or nothing
(c) If he knows any other game they could play
(d) If he wants to spin the coins himself

Short Answer Questions

1. What strange comment does Rosencrantz make about questions?

2. What is the Player's response when Rosencrantz asks if the two of them are enough for an audience?

3. What does Guildenstern say will eventually turn the game around?

4. How does Guildenstern summarize that day?

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

(see the answer key)

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