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1
Who are the two most influential writers for the postmodernist era?
Mark Twain and Ernest Hemmingway
Chinua Achebe and Joseph Conrad
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
John Barth and Jorge Louis Borges
2
What techniques does Hamlet use to reach his goal throughout the play?
disguise himself as a woman
poison wine
trust Roz and Guil to help him
feign madness
3
What grant did Stoppard receive that funded his playwriting?
Guggenheim Foundation
Ophelian Honors Society
The Gertrude Radcliffe Memorium Grant
Ford Foundation
4
Which of these plays is often compared to
Ros+ Guil
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
Endgame by Samuel Beckett
Pygmalion by George Shaw
5
Who is Claudius in
Hamlet?
Hamlet's servant
Hamlet's long lost cousin
Hamlet's Uncle
The King of England
6
Which of these movements is most associated with parody?
Existentialism
Postmodernism
Modernism
Realism
7
Who were Ros and Guil going to "meet" in Stoppard's original version of the play
Romeo
William Shakespeare
King Lear
Julius Cesar
8
What is meta-theatre?
When a play is conscious of itself as a play
When a writer integrates politics into the play.
When the writer acts as the main character in the play
When the characters all die at the end
9
What is the goal of Nietzche's "Superman"?
To fight off the negative stigma surrounding philosophy
To save a damsel in distress
To create new values for a society that has a herd mentality
To encourage people to join a religion
10
Which of these psychologists had a big influence on modernist ideals?
Ivan Pavlov
Harry Harlow
Philip Zimbardo
Sigmund Freud
11
Which of these writers is thought of as the father of metafiction?
Ray Bradbury
Geroge Orwell
Luigi Pirandello
J.D Salinger
12
Who came up the idea for the play about Ros and Guil?
Tom Stoppard
Kenneth Ewig
Claudius Williams
Terry Gilliam,
13
What is Hamlet's main goal in
Hamlet?
Solve a riddle that will spare his kingdom from plague.
conquer Norway
Convince his family to let him marry a peasant girl
To avenge his murdered father's death
14
Where was Tom Stoppard Born?
Zlinn, Czechoslovakia
New York, USA
Graz, Austria
Poznań, Poland
15
Which of these works was Jean Rhys's
Wide Sargasso Sea
based off of?
Gone With the Wind
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
The Old Man and The Sea
16
Which best describes Guil's character in
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead?
blunt
cold
philosophical
scatter-brained
17
Which best describes Ros's character in
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead?
scatterbrained
exactly the same as Guil's (through all the play)
philosophical
cold
18
Which of these moments in
Ros+ Guil are dead
is considered fourth wall breaking
When Hamlet regards the audience and then spits on them
When Ros gets angry at the audience for not being alarmed
When Gertrude marries Claudius
When Hamlet sees his father's ghost
19
Which of these is
NOT
a characteristic of modernist writing?
the narrative stream of consciousness
The narrator stays constant throughout the piece
the experience of an epiphany
use of fragments
20
What does Stoppard change about
Hamlet
in
Ros and Guil?
Ros and Guil kill Hamlet in the end
Ros and Guil are female
Ros and Guil both think they're time travelers
Ros and Guil are the main characters
21
How many works did Stoppard make in his career
45
3
17
46
22
What was Tom Stoppard's first job?
a baker
a journalist
a lamp-lighter
a janitor
23
What role do Ros and Guil play in the original
Hamlet?
his loyal brothers
Claudius's pawns against Hamlet
Gertrude's two lovers
Hamlet's childhood enemies
24
*Spoiler Alert* How does Hamlet die at the end of the play?
He is knicked by a poisonous sword
He drinks poisonous wine
He drowns
He commits suicide
25
What was Stoppard's first play?
Dear Theodosia
Waiting on Hope
You Have My Heart
A Walk on the Water
26
What is the main belief of existentialism?
That nothing on this earth can really give purpose to humans
The relationship between humans and the universe is absurd
That there is no gender
That the reason we exist is to help others
27
What is Ros's and Guil's first memory in
Roz + Guil are dead?
Riding on horseback for the first time
The death of King Hamlet
Claudius' emissary summoning them
Their childhood playtimes with Hamlet
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How did realism influence
Ros + Guil are dead?
Allowed common people to be the main focus of a work
Realists funded the play
was the original inspiration for Hamlet
Stoppard's father was a realist
