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QuizMultiple Choice

Building Vocabulary: Word Roots, Affixes, and Reference Materials — Cumulative exam

Question 45 • CARE_24_25_TX-English IV A

Read the excerpt from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard.ROS I’m afraid—GUIL So am I.ROS I’m afraid it isn’t your day.GUIL I’m afraid it is. Small pause.ROS Eighty-nine.GUIL It must be indicative of something, besides the redistribution of wealth. (He muses.) List of possible explanations. One: I’m willing it. Inside where nothing shows, I am the essence of a man spinning double-headed coins, and betting against himself in private atonement for an unremembered past. . . .[GUIL] Two: time has stopped dead, and the single experience of one coin being spun once has been repeated ninety times.

Answer
A
Guildenstern trusts that everything will work itself out, while Rosencrantz has doubts.
B
Guildenstern has participated in fewer games of coin toss, while Rosencrantz has more experience with them.
C
Guildenstern has experienced a similar situation before, while Rosencrantz has not.
D
Guildenstern wants an explanation for what is happening, while Rosencrantz accepts the luck of the situation.
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