Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rosencrantz say that Guildenstern must be feeling?
(a) Weariness
(b) Anger
(c) Boredom
(d) Poorer

2. Of what does Guildenstern say they can be sure?
(a) That they will be at home by nightfall.
(b) That Hamlet will confide in them.
(c) That the only beginnings and endings are birth and death.
(d) That they will make a lot of money this time.

3. Where does Rosencrantz want to go?
(a) He wants to go to Denmark.
(b) He wants to go home.
(c) He wants to go to Spain.
(d) He wants to go to church.

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

5. When the troupe runs out of money, what do they offer Guildenstern?
(a) Bread
(b) Musical instruments
(c) Alfred
(d) A show

6. Trying to determine what Rosencrantz wants to see, what does the Player mention not too subtly?
(a) Bawdy barroom ballads acted out by the mimes as the musician splay and sing
(b) Great Tragedies and comedies they have performed before kings
(c) Adam and Eve in the Garden in their original costumes
(d) Rapes are mentioned and he alludes to wives and "ravished virgins" and asks if he is getting warm.

7. Still trying to explain his run of bad luck, why does Guildenstern think about time?
(a) He wonders if it has stood still and he has actually spun the coin only once.
(b) He wonders if his timing is all wrong when spinning the coins.
(c) He wonders if the time of day is affecting the magnetic fields.
(d) He wonders if time is actually going backward making his spins go the opposite way.

8. What question does Guildenstern put to Rosencrantz about language?
(a) If ordinary words often sound strange to him.
(b) If he sometimes forgets what he wanted to say.
(c) If he knows the word for housewife in Danish.
(d) If he feels more comfortable speaking French.

9. 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 winks at Guildenstern and suggests he would like to participate in something other than fighting.
(c) He confides to Guildenstern that, for a price, he has a bawdy performance of The Rape of the Sabine Women.
(d) He asks Guildenstern if he would like the troupe to remove their clothes.

10. How does Guildenstern reply to Rosencrantz's idea about how Guildenstern must be feeling?
(a) He says there are plenty more coins where those came from.
(b) He says he is not really thinking about the game.
(c) He says that he doesn't mind losing because Rosencrantz is his friend.
(d) He says there is suspense while the coins are in the air.

11. How does Hamlet react when Rosencrantz and Guildenstern confront him?
(a) Hamlet does not recognize them.
(b) Hamlet asks them what they are doing at court.
(c) Hamlet refers to them as friends and asks how they are.
(d) Hamlet shouts and runs off stage.

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

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

14. As Rosencrantz and Guildenstern practice questioning one another, how do they keep score?
(a) They get ten points for each unanswerable question.
(b) Rosencrantz gives guildenstern a coin for each correct answer.
(c) Rosencrantz uses tennis term to keep score, but nothing makes sense.
(d) They make tally marks on the ground.

15. What is Rosencrantz's reaction to the way the game keeps going?
(a) He laughs and whistles every time he wins a coin.
(b) He is upset because Guildenstern will run out of coins.
(c) He thinks something is odd about the game.
(d) He is a little embarrassed because he keeps winning.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the source of the sounds Rosencrantz had heard?

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

3. What is odd about the gambling game Guildenstern plays with Rosencrantz?

4. What does Guildenstern do with the coins he takes out of his bag?

5. What is Rosencrantz's reply when Guildenstern asks if he contradicts himself?

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