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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 does Guildenstern summarize that day?
(a) They were awakened at dawn with a message, a summons, and a new record for heads and tails.
(b) They got a message to come quickly but it did not tell them where.
(c) they were sleeping and suddenly found themselves on a road they don't know.
(d) Right after breakfast they got a summons for jury duty.

2. Why is the Player so happy to see the two men?
(a) To get them to tell tales they can act on the stage
(b) To sell them the musical instruments
(c) To borrow their cloaks for a show
(d) To put on a show because they were forgetting their lines

3. What is the fanciful conversation started by Guildenstern when Rosencrantz hears a sound.
(a) About unicorns
(b) About calssical music
(c) About the fife and drum
(d) About things that go bump in the night

4. What is the new game Rosencrantz and Guildenstern play with a coin?
(a) Seeing if they can make the coin stand on edge
(b) Balancing the coin on their noses
(c) Guessing which hand the coin is in
(d) Tossing the coin back and forth between them

5. What do Rosencrantz and Guildenstern threaten to do to the Player?
(a) Cut out his tongue
(b) Dance on his grave
(c) Have him arrested
(d) Expose him for a fraud

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rosencrantz say when Guildenstern wonders if they will ever return?

2. What assumption does the Player make about Rosencrantz and Guildenstern?

3. What makes Rosencrantz and Guildenstern laugh at this new coin game?

4. What new theory does Guildenstern come up with for his run of bad luck?

5. To shouts of "The King rises...Give o'er the play!" and cries for Lights, lights, lights!" how do the lights come up?

(see the answer key)

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