View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Blanford vow to do?
(a) Serve the Governor.
(b) Serve Oroonoko.
(c) Serve Welldon.
(d) Serve the Captain.

2. How long has Mrs. Lackitt been a widow?
(a) Six months.
(b) Six weeks.
(c) Six days.
(d) Six years.

3. What does the widow tell the captain that she wants?
(a) A maid.
(b) A husband.
(c) A female slave.
(d) A male slave.

4. Who says the following line: "So, Mrs. Lackitt, your Widowhood is waning apace?" in Act I, Scene I?
(a) Blanford.
(b) Lucy.
(c) Stanmore.
(d) Welldon.

5. Whom do we learn is interested in marrying the widow near the end of Act I, Scene I?
(a) Welldon.
(b) Jack.
(c) Stanmore.
(d) Blanford.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Oroonoko's status?

2. How does Welldon say he could cheat the widow?

3. To whom is "Why, a lusty young Fellow may happen to tempt you" being said in Act I, Scene I?

4. What does the line "poor Women be thought decaying and unfit/for the Town at One or Two and twenty" in Act I, Scene I mean exactly?

5. To whom is the line "My heart drops blood for him" referring in Act I, Scene II?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 266 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample