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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Daniel make his mother promise near the end of Act II, Scene I?
(a) Not to marry Welldon.
(b) Not to leave him.
(c) Not to marry Jack.
(d) Not to marry him off.

2. Whom does this line refer to: "Sir, You're a scurvy Fellow to talk at this rate to me" in Act I, Scene II?
(a) Blanford.
(b) Welldon.
(c) Captain.
(d) Governor.

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

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

5. To whom is the line "My heart drops blood for him" referring in Act I, Scene II?
(a) Captain.
(b) Welldon.
(c) Blanford.
(d) Oroonoko.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Welldon?

2. Where is Lucy and Welldon's original home?

3. Who stands and stares at Oroonoko in Act I, Scene II?

4. Who is the first character we are introduced to in the beginning of the play?

5. Who offers himself to Mrs. Lackitt in Act I, Scene II?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do we understand of the relationship between Jack Stanmore and Widow Lackitt in Act I, Scene II?

2. What do we learn about Oroonoko's past in Act II, Scene II?

3. Take the following line: "Were not you an ill-natur'd thing to boggle at a Promise? I cou'd break twenty for you" in Act II, Scene I. Who is speaking and to whom? What is it in reference to and what do these words tell us about the speaker?

4. Why does Oroonoko tell Blanford he is unhappy?

5. In Act II, Scene I how does Welldon put Widow Lackitt off marrying him?

6. Describe the interaction between Lucy and Daniel, and Daniel's attitude towards marrying her.

7. What is an allusion and what allusion is made in Act I, Scene II?

8. Where are the two sisters living and how is this an advantage for them?

9. After the reunion of Oroonoko and Imoinda, what does the governor comment and what does this comment foreshadow?

10. In Act I, Scene I, who is disguised as a man and why?

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