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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. How does Hamlet respond when Guildenstern asks how Hamlet's mother and Uncle are deceived?
(a) With a line about being and not being which Guildenstern does not understand
(b) By saying they are trying to kill him
(c) With nonsense lines about direction, the wind, and hawks and handsaws
(d) By saying they think he is mad

2. Finally what does Rosencrantz decide to do?
(a) Call for Claudius
(b) Leave for home
(c) Hit Hamlet over the head
(d) Play another game of coins

3. What do Hamlet, the Player, Rosencrantz, and Guildenstern do when pirates attack?
(a) Leap into the barrels
(b) Call for the soldier and the captain
(c) Jump overboard
(d) Beg for mercy

4. After speaking with Hamlet, what is the condition of Guildenstern and Rosencrantz?
(a) They are happy.
(b) They think they know the answer.
(c) They are satisfied.
(d) They are confused.

5. What is the Player's response when Guildenstern asks where he is going?
(a) The Player answers that he is going to Denmark.
(b) The Player responds that he is going to find Hamlet.
(c) The Player retorts that he can come and go as he pleases.
(d) The Player tells him he is going to wash costumes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Rosencrantz's reply when Guildenstern asks why they would want to leave?

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

3. What does Guildenstern say about Hamlet?

4. What are the lines from Shakespeare's Hamlet, Act II, Scene ii that Hamlet says as Act Two opens?

5. Why does Rosencrantz have a coin in both hands?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Rosencrantz sum up their position?

2. When Hamlet does return, what does he say about the body?

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

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

5. What happens when Rosencrantz hears music?

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

7. What leads up to the death scene and how does it play out?

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

9. What is Guildenstern's rationale for not catching Hamlet?

10. When Hamlet enters in Act 2, what does he say?

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