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1
What is the first thing that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern remember?
Their location
a messenger
Their names
Their destination
2
arrangement of dead bodies in final scene in Elsinore parallels what scene earlier in the Act?
Hamlet on the boat
arrangement of coin flippers at beginning
massacre at the banquet
arrangement of dead bodies in the dumbshow
3
In Travesties, James Joyce meets Tristan Tzara and what other famous character from history
Karl Marx
Joseph Stalin
Mao Tse Tung
Vlad Lenin
4
What problem keeps R & G stuck and not hurrying on to their destination?
They don't know which way to go
They are not very smart
They are not very motivated
They are waiting for a message
5
What is the name of the literary form that imitates and makes fun of an original form?
Sarcasm
Cartooning
Poetry
Parody
6
In Hamlet, the man who became the king at the end is from ?
Swedan
Denmark
Norway
Clyman
7
Which of Stoppards plays alternates between 1809 and present day?
Armadillo
Arcadia
Armistace
Arena
8
What famous and influential play by Sam Beckett opened in England in 1955
Forest Gump
Death of a Salesman
Waiting for Godot
Hamlet
9
What is the name of the film T.Stoddard co-wrote with a member of Monty Python comedy troupe?
Columbia
Belgium
Clyman
Brazil
10
In R & G, coin tossing game, which one of them has been winning?
Rosencrantz
Rosencrantz
Rosencrantz
Rosencrantz
11
G proposes that a way of looking at things is defense against the pure emotion of fear.What?
absurdist
Scientific or logical
methodical
religious
12
Rosencrantz and Gildenstern resemble what film comedy duo from the earlier 20th century?
Laurel and Hardy
Abbot and Costello
Timon and Pumba
Laverne and Shirley
13
In contrast to the fingernails and the beard, Rosencrantz says what never grows at all
intelligence
toenails
the lies
nosehair
14
What is the term for the genre of plays that are based on the illogical or incongruous?
Theater of the Sublime
Theater of Kookiness
Theater of the Ridiculous
Theater of the Absurd
15
How did Tom Stoppard, born Straussler, acquire the last name Stoppard?
He purchased this at the book store
He looked in a phone book for a pen name
He mom remarried after fathers death
He changed his name when he got married
16
What did Stoddard co-write set in Shakespeare's day also won an Academy Award?
Shakespeare in Harlem
Written in the Stars
Shakespeare in Love
The Bard is batty
17
Which of the two is it that first remembers the messenger?
Rosencrantz
Guildenstern
Guildenstern
Rosencrantz
18
G remembers tossing coins before. What was different last time?
coins were eaten
coins fell in the river
coins came up 50/50
coins were lost
19
In the play set in Zurich, the characters are staging another play by what famous play write?
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Hamilton
Oscar Meyer
Oscar De Laurenta
20
What went wrong with Player's plan to actually kill man condemned to death in middle of play?
He lost the gun
He just cried/he wasn't believable
The man escaped
He couldn't find the man
21
What Steven Speilberg film did Stoppard work on?
E.T.
Schindlers List
Saving Private Ryan
Empire of the Sun
22
In first conversation, Guildenstern scoulds Rosencrantz for not responding with what emotion?
fear
hate
love
joy
23
When G tries to make a bet with players and players have no money what do they offer instead?
Alfred
Rosenkrantz
Hardy
Laurel
24
What year was Tom Stoppard born?
1945
1958
1200 B.C.
1937
25
What is the name of the genre in lit. and art that focuses on average people?
Abstract
Classic
Realism
Boring
26
Name of Stoddard play about 3 influential thinkers early 20th century in Zurich?
Travesties
Transit
Transylvania
Transvestite
27
After Tom S parents left home country, what country did they end up in, mom ran shoe store
India
Africa
England
Russia
28
What country was Tom Stoppard born in?
The Ol U.S. of A.
Transylvania
Africa
Czechoslovakia
29
What coin always turns up all the time in the beginning?
tails
the nickel
the gold one
heads
30
Stoppard is said to write plays that are "meta-theatrical" What's that?
theater that is absurd
theater that is about theater
held in many large theaters
A lot of metal garbage cans are used
31
What happened between the time the coins behaved normally and when the coins always end up head
Rosencrantz tells a lie
The messenger arrives
The Cart tips over
King Lear appears
32
What is the title of Stoppard's early play which is a murder mystery set against philosophy
Jumpers
Julip
Sketchers
JuJu
33
In the early part of the play, what sound do Rosen and Guild start to hear?
an owl
Music/band
the song Keke
thunder
34
Duo tries to figure out the reason for a unnerving experience they have, what is it?
that somebody is following them
they don't trust each other
their coins always flip to the same side
that there is danger ahead
35
In Hamlet, who becomes king at the end of the play?
Rosencrantz
Guildenstern
Fortinbras
Claudius
36
Rosencrantz is doing ? physically when he remarks that fingernails and beards grow after death
cutting the cheese
cutting his fingernails.
cutting his beard
cutting his toenails
37
What was the name of Stoppard's first play, eventually produced for television?
Walk on the Water
Walking in the Rain
Friends
Walk the walk, talk the talk.
38
What character says, "Your visit shall receive such thanks as fits a king's remembrance?
Ophelia
Hamlet
Rosenkrantz
Gertrude/the queen
39
What is the first well-formed memory of Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern?
The Coin flipping
eating a burger and fries at 5 guys
Getting lost in the palace
The messenger
40
When G says Heaven make our presence and our practices pleasant and helpful to him, who is him?
Rosenkrantz
Claudius
Hamlet
Gertrude
41
In Shakespeare's Hamlet, who is responsible for the death of Gertrude?
Ophelia
Claudius
King Lear
Gertrude
42
How did Hamlet get away from the boat taking him to England?
He jumped overboard
Pretended he was a sailor and snuck onto another ship
He sailed away on a pirate ship
He did not get away
43
What was Stoppard's first job?
Journalist
Male model
Kwik Trip
Mail man
44
Play before Rosencrantz etc had those two meeting which other Shakespearean character
King Lear
Queen Elizabeth
Queen Victoria
King James
45
In coin tossing game between R & G, which one has been doing the actual flipping of the coin
Guildenster
Rosencrantz
Rosencrantz
Guildenstern
46
In beginning R & G what are they carrying that makes it obvious that one has been winning
bag of money
bag of shells
bag of spices
bag of bean
47
Hamlet is a prince of what country?
Denmark
England
The Netherlands
Swedan
48
Which is the one who tries to figure out the reasons behind the coin flipping results?
Guildenstern
Rosencrantz
Rosencrantz
Guildenstern
49
How do R / G in Stoppard's differ from same characters in Hamlet, in plot against Hamlet
mean and culpable in Shakespeare's play
hapless and victims in Stoppard's play
more attractive in Shake.
shorter
50
What year did R & Gildenstern first open at the Old Vic Theater in London?
1968
1973
1964
1967