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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1, Part 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the Count ask what Figaro is doing in Seville?
(a) Since the Count found Figaro a job as a writer.
(b) He thought Figaro had died.
(c) He heard Figaro had moved to Paris.
(d) Since the Count got Figaro a job in the government.

2. Why does the Count recognize Figaro?
(a) Figaro was once his tutor.
(b) Figaro lived next door to him.
(c) Figaro was once in the Count's service.
(d) They went to school together.

3. What kept the audience's interest?
(a) Wondering about the details of this young, handsome lover.
(b) Wondering about the details of both the greedy old man's character and the reactions of the others.
(c) Wondering what the character would look like.
(d) Wondering if the actor would be very good.

4. What will Figaro do while the Count gets himself into his disguise as a soldier?
(a) He will sit and watch.
(b) He will go to his shop and wait for the Count.
(c) He will guide the Count on how to behave.
(d) He will go into the house and drug the servants.

5. To what does Rosine's letter refer?
(a) The Count's obsessive behavior.
(b) Bartholo's obsessive behavior.
(c) The Count's devotion.
(d) Bartholo's devotion.

Short Answer Questions

1. As Figaro finishes singing his new composition, what does he realize about the "priest?"

2. On what commedia type is Bazile based?

3. Why does Figaro tell the Count to pose as a drunken member of a military detachment in town and introduce himself to Bartholo?

4. What does Rosine say as she stands at her window?

5. What story has Bartholo spread around to keep potential lovers away?

(see the answer key)

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