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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do all of Celimene's suitors, accept Alceste, leave her?
(a) Celimene criticizes all of her suitors in a letter.
(b) Celimene marries Alceste.
(c) Celimene decides she does not like any of them.
(d) Arsinoe makes the suitors go away.

2. What do the men do when Celimene proclaims her love to one of them?
(a) They fight for her love.
(b) The one not chosen leaves forever.
(c) The other does not interfere.
(d) The one not choses marries her cousin.

3. Which of the following best describes Eliante?
(a) Alceste's third cousin.
(b) Philinte's second choice.
(c) A gossip and a flirt.
(d) Alceste's second choice.

4. In the letter that is the subject of Act 5, Scene 4, who is made fun of and criticized?
(a) Dubois.
(b) Basque.
(c) Arsinoé.
(d) Célimène's suitors.

5. Who enters the room at the end of Act 5, Scene 2?
(a) Acaste.
(b) Basque.
(c) Dubois.
(d) Éliante.

Short Answer Questions

1. Éliante wants what kind of emotion to pass before she will accept this proposal?

2. What does Alceste wish, concerning Oronte's sonnet?

3. In court, what honest apology does Alceste give to Oronte regarding the sonnet?

4. What is the emotional states of the new visitor in Act Four, Scene Four?

5. What is the confrontation with Célimène about at the beginning of Act 4, Scene 3?

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