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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. Why does Guildenstern say they do not need to worry about what to say to the King?
(a) They always think of something.
(b) The soldier will speak for them.
(c) The King will only want to talk to Hamlet.
(d) They have a letter from Claudius to the English King.

2. Who is standing upstage and lights a lantern?
(a) The Player
(b) Hamlet
(c) Alfred
(d) Claudius

3. What question does Guildenstern put to the Player?
(a) He asks the Player what he and Rosencrantz are supposed to do.
(b) He asks which way is north.
(c) He asks what he and Rosencrantz need to know.
(d) He asks where they can find Hamlet.

4. What does Claudius ask Rosencrantz and Guildenstern about Polonius?
(a) Why did Hamlet kill him
(b) Where his body is
(c) What they know about him
(d) Who told them he was dead

5. What is Guildenstern's ominous prediction?
(a) Guildenstern remarks that they are on trial.
(b) Guildenstern says they will come to no good end.
(c) Guildenstern comments that they are on a path, to which they are condemned.
(d) Guildenstern suggests they are in a madhouse.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do they bicker about?

2. What is strange about where Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are throughout the entire play?

3. Beside the two British Ambassadors, what characters from Shakespeare are on stage at the end of the play?

4. What is Rosencrantz's prophetic remark after Hamlet enters with the soldier?

5. What does Rosencrantz tell the Player about Hamlet?

Short Essay Questions

1. Tell about the dialogue between Rosencrantz and Guildenstern after Rosencrantz insists they have permission to leave.

2. The stage is dark when Act 3 begins. Describe what the audience hears.

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

4. What causes Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to laugh over the new coin game?

5. What happens when Rosencrantz hears music?

6. What happens over the subject of money?

7. What transpires when Rosencrantz brings up the subject of death?

8. What happens when the King orders Guildenstern to go and bring Hamlet?

9. How does Rosencrantz initiate a new coin game?

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

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