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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Five, The Announcement - Fezzik: Pages 138-165.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Vizzini try to outsmart the Man in Black?
(a) By speaking in another language.
(b) By distracting him.
(c) By coming up with a better rhyme.
(d) By poisoning the cheese.

2. When the Count and Countess stop at Buttercup's house, the Count wants to see Buttercup, and the Countess wants to see who?
(a) Westley.
(b) Her parents.
(c) Her horse.
(d) The stable.

3. For years, the author heard The Princess Bride being told in the voice of his what?
(a) Mother.
(b) Grandmother.
(c) Uncle.
(d) Father.

4. As a child, the author was what?
(a) A loner who did not excel in sports.
(b) A bubbly child who played the banjo.
(c) An active, social child involved in theater and sports.
(d) A painfully shy child who loved math and science.

5. When Buttercup takes Horse out for a ride and ponders her impending marriage, she is approached by whom?
(a) Her parents.
(b) A man who looks like the farm boy.
(c) Three strangers.
(d) The Count.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Prince Humperdinck?

2. When the boat reaches the Cliffs of Insanity, what does the Spaniard note?

3. Discouraged because he can't find his father's murderer, Inigo starts to do what?

4. As the kidnappers start climbing the Cliffs of Insanity, what happens to the boat?

5. What does Buttercup say when Prince Humperdinck demands that she marry him?

(see the answer key)

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