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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 Signora Sirelli refer to Amalia as in Act 1, Scene 2?
(a) The wife of a superior.
(b) The wife of a sailor.
(c) The wife of a hero.
(d) The wife of the governor.

2. Who is Laudisi related to?
(a) Amalia.
(b) Sirelli.
(c) Nenni.
(d) Ponza.

3. In whose house does Act 1, Scenes 1 and 2 take place?
(a) Nenni.
(b) Ponza.
(c) Laudisi.
(d) Agazzi.

4. What does Dina tell Laudisi to do in Act 1, Scene 2?
(a) Call Ponza.
(b) Leave.
(c) Eat dinner.
(d) Stay.

5. Who is Ponza always seen with?
(a) His sister.
(b) His dog.
(c) His mother-in-law.
(d) His wife.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is above Ponza at his office?

2. Who does Dina say is arriving at the end of Act 1, Scene 2?

3. Who says, "You don't mean to say you understand it if a mother--unable to bear being away from the daughter--follows her and then is compelled to live apart from her in a city where after all she's a stranger too?"

4. Who says, "We come here as to the fountain, two poor women athirst for news?"

5. How many children does Signora Frola say that her daughter has?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the outcome of the play? What does Signora Ponza tell the crowd?

2. What does Dina liken the situation to in Act 1, Scene 1? How does Laudisi respond?

3. What is Signora Frola's reason for not accepted guests in Act 1, Scene 4? What do the townspeople ask her regarding this?

4. What does Dina say about the piano heard offstage in Act 2, Scene 6?

5. What does the Prefect say to Ponza in Act 3, Scene 5?

6. What is the plan Agazzi devises to bring Ponza and his mother-in-law together in Act 2, Scene 2?

7. Where did Centuri see the Prefect in Act 2, Scene 2? What does Agazzi say?

8. How does Signora Frola respond to Sirelli's comment that it is Ponza who bars her from seeing her daughter in Act 1, Scene 4?

9. What are some of the sacrifices Ponza speaks of having endured because of the situation in Act 1, Scene 5?

10. How does communication transpire from the Ponzas' apartment? What does this lead Amalia to believe?

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