Think you’ve got your head wrapped around Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead? Put your knowledge to
the test. Good luck — the Stickman is counting on you!
Q. They pun off of each other’s words without much intention of moving their dialogue toward a set purpose. Which theme is this?
Mortality
Fear
Isolation
Manipulation
Language and Communication
Q. Main characters Ros and Guil, when left alone in the play, often suffer from feelings of ____
Isolation
Mortality
Morbidity
Hate
Love
Q. People use each other quite a bit. Which theme is this?
Isolation
Mortality
Manipulation
Primitivity
Man and the Natural World
Q. At the beginning Guil tries to determine an outcome by
Rolling a dice
Flipping a coin
Picking a card
Throwing darts
Drawing straws
Q. "The scientific approach to the examination of phenomena is a defence against the pure emotion of _____"
Hope
Lust
Happiness
Fear
Sadness