Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Multiple Choice Quiz

Act 1:

1. Guildenstern claims that the scientific approach to the examination of phenomena is a

defense against what?

a. Tyranny

b. Fear

c. Loss

d. Death

2. What does The Player offer as payment for losing the bet?

a. Seven coins

b. An unfinished script

c. Alfred

d. A free performance

3. What does Alfred have to lose?

a. Dignity

b. Posture

c. Innocence

d. Nothing

4. What school are the Tragedians part of?

a. Blood, love, and rhetoric

b. Shakespearean

c. Victorian
 d. Greek

5. What does Rosencrantz want?

a. A new shirt

b. To go home

c. To help Hamlet

d. To kill Polonius

Act 2:

1. I am mad but north north-west; when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a

_________.

a. Sparrow

b. Handsaw

c. Rat

d. Friend

2. In which hand was Ros hiding the coin?

a. Left

b. Right

c. Both

d. Neither

3. What does childhood moment does Ros attempt to recall?

a. Moment of mortality

b. Loss of innocence

c. Moment of meaning
 d. All of the above

4. What play did Hamlet request?

a. King Lear

b. Much Ado About Nothing

c. The Murder of Gonzago

d. Romeo and Juliet

5. With which philosophy is the Players statement of ...decides? It is written. align best

with?

a. Existentialism

b. Determinism

c. Magical Realism

d. Expressionism

Act 3:

1. Rosencratz exclaims, Theres ______ in me yet!

a. Feeling

b. Vision

c. Life

d. Voice

2. What is positive/healthy about boats?

a. Freedom

b. Open air

c. Darkness
 d. Wind

3. What does Hamlet carry around with him?

a. A book

b. A lantern

c. Ophelia

d. A compass

4. Guildenstern pretends to be

a. The king of Denmark

b. Hamlet

c. The Player

d. The king of England

5. The earths coming up is what kind of a theory?

a. Psychotic

b. Confused

c. Fashionable

d. Old
 Answers

Act 1:

1. B

2. C

3. D

4. A

5. B

Act 2:

1. B

2. D

3. A

4. C

5. B

Act 3:

1. C

2. A

3. B

4. D

5. D