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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 2, p. 55-84.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the Player's apology to Guildenstern and Rosencrantz?
(a) He says that he was desparate to make money so they could eat.
(b) He says that he had mistaken them for bawdy actors.
(c) He says that he had only been joking with them just for the fun of it.
(d) He says that they should have seen his troupe in better times.

2. What does Guildenstern want to know if the troupe knows?
(a) Any famous people
(b) Any plays
(c) Any popular songs
(d) Any playwrights

3. 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 runaway criminals and he has seen their pictures.
(d) The player says that they are Lords and he recognizes them.

4. What does the player tell Guildenstern they are more about?
(a) The school of ballet
(b) The stand-up comedy school
(c) The blood, love, and rhetoric school
(d) The school of mimery

5. To lighten the discussion, what does Rosencrantz tell Guildenstern?
(a) The burial practices of elephants
(b) The story of a man buried alive
(c) Silly and meaningless jokes about life and death
(d) How coffins were invented

Short Answer Questions

1. What exchange is there between Hamlet and Ophelia?

2. When Guildenstern assures Rosencrantz that they will be all right, what is Rosencrantz's reply?

3. How does Hamlet respond when Guildenstern asks how Hamlet's mother and Uncle are deceived?

4. How does Hamlet address Rosencrantz when he pulls him aside?

5. What does Rosencrantz ask Guildenstern about death?

(see the answer key)

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