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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the one bit of knowledge that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are sure of?
(a) That Gertrude is a boy named Alfred
(b) That Hamlet is bing sent to England
(c) That they are facing north
(d) That they were called to deliver a message

2. How many corpses does the Player say the drama will have at the end?
(a) Four
(b) Six
(c) Eight
(d) A hundred

3. What happens to the troupe still dressed in their costumes?
(a) They all die in different ways.
(b) They join the audience.
(c) They walk off the stage.
(d) They drag Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to center stage.

4. In what kind of death does the Player say people only believe?
(a) Death at sea
(b) Death on a stage
(c) Death of an actor
(d) Their own death

5. As they are discussing the letter, who emerges from behind the umbrellas and walks toward the lantern?
(a) Hamlet
(b) The ship's captain
(c) The soldier
(d) The troupe

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Hamlet slip away from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern?

2. What saves Guildenstern from being trapped by Rosencrantz's betrayal?

3. When Rosencrantz and Guildenstern talk about the weather, what do they decide?

4. When Hamlet, Polonius, and Ophelia exit, where are they apparently going?

5. What does Claudius ask Rosencrantz and Guildenstern about Polonius?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the audience realize that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are really dead?

2. What game does Rosencrantz initiate on the ship?

3. How does Rosencrantz sum up their position?

4. How does the audience know what the stage setting is in Act 3?

5. What happens when Rosencrantz hears music?

6. What blunder does Rosencrantz make over what he thinks is a woman?

7. What prophetic remark does Rosencrantz make while they wait for instructions?

8. What advice does Rosencrantz give the Player whose troupe is invited to entertain at court?

9. What is Rosencrantz's dark question on the subject of death?

10. What happens over the subject of money?

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