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Southerne, Thomas
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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the widow force Daniel to do in Act II, Scene I?
(a) Hug Lucy.
(b) Kiss Lucy.
(c) Hug Welldon.
(d) Kiss Welldon.

2. What do Welldon and the widow agree upon in Act II, Scene I?
(a) Lucy's marriage to the widow's son.
(b) The widow's marriage to Jack.
(c) A business deal.
(d) Their upcoming marriage.

3. Who is Imoinda?
(a) Oroonoko's step-mother.
(b) Oroonoko's wife.
(c) Oroonoko's sister.
(d) Oroonoko's mother.

4. To whom does Welldon mention his sister to in Act I, Scene II in terms of marriage?
(a) Blanford.
(b) Stanmore.
(c) Jack.
(d) Captain.

5. What is Daniel's response when Lucy asks him "Well, how do you like me now?" in Act II, Scene I?
(a) "Why, pray, may I?"
(b) "...my Mother is always shaming one before company."
(c) "You have bewitch'd me, I think.."
(d) "...how do you think I can go to bed to a Woman I don't know?

6. Why is Lucy's sister dressed as a man?
(a) To find a husband for herself.
(b) To make proper claim to property.
(c) To entice women out of their wealth.
(d) To find a husband for Lucy.

7. Where have Lucy and Welldon moved to?
(a) Surinam, West Indies.
(b) London, England.
(c) New Guinea.
(d) America.

8. 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?
(a) That women, no matter their age are always thought to be 21 or 22 years of age.
(b) That women who look like they are old are actually 21 or 22 years of age.
(c) That women who are 21 or 22 years of age are never considered old.
(d) That women are considered old at 21 or 22 years of age.

9. Whom does the widow first suggest that Lucy marry?
(a) Jack.
(b) Stanmore.
(c) Her son.
(d) The captain.

10. Who says: "...but I won't lose her so" at the end of Act II, Scene III?
(a) Captain.
(b) Oroonoko.
(c) Stanmore.
(d) Governor.

11. What is the setting of the beginning of Act II, Scene III?
(a) A plantation.
(b) An open place.
(c) The trading port.
(d) The widow's house.

12. Who is the Royal Slave whom Stanmore mentions near the end of Act II, Scene II?
(a) Clemene.
(b) King of Angola.
(c) Oroonoko.
(d) Imoinda.

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

14. Who is the governor's mistress?
(a) Lucy.
(b) Clemene.
(c) Welldon as a female.
(d) Widow Lackitt.

15. How did the captain capture Oroonoko to be a slave?
(a) By knocking him out and tying him up.
(b) By offering to trade the prince's life for his wife's.
(c) By getting him drunk on his ship and putting him in shackles.
(d) By hitting him over the head and dragging him to the ship.

Short Answer Questions

1. What story does Oroonoko relate to Blanford in Act II, Scene II?

2. Why does the Lieutenant Governor summon Blanford and Oroonoko in Act II, Scene II?

3. What does the line "I shou'd like mightily to be call'd Mrs. Welldon" foreshadow in Act I, Scene I?

4. What subject does the widow bring up with Welldon at the beginning of Act II, Scene I?

5. What does Oroonoko warn the Captain of?

(see the answer keys)

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