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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1, Scene 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Rover is considered to be what kind of play?
(a) Situation comedy.
(b) A Restoration Comedy.
(c) Shakesperean.
(d) Sketch comedy.

2. What are the women's attitudes toward the men in Act 1, Scene 2?
(a) The women are falling helplessly in love.
(b) The women are angry.
(c) The women are in control.
(d) The women are at their mercy.

3. What is the general attitude of men toward women in the scene at the beginning of the carnival?
(a) Woman are to be taken care of and loved.
(b) Women are meant to be wives and mothers.
(c) Women are lovely creatures to be worshipped.
(d) Women are sexual objects to be own or traded around.

4. How does Hellena intend to get into the carnival?
(a) By dressing to look like her sister.
(b) By wearing a disguise.
(c) By sneaking into a back gate.
(d) By paying double the entrance fee.

5. What is unusual about the three couples at the center of the play?
(a) They are children.
(b) They are all circus performers.
(c) Two of the couples involve the same man.
(d) Two of the couples involve the same woman.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the beginning of the play, who has been banished, penniless from his homeland?

2. Why does Behn choose to have a male playwright to speak in the Prologue?

3. What is the important symbol that appears as the characters head to the carnival?

4. What are Frederic and Ned Blunt teasing Captain Belvile about in the beginning of Act 1, Scene 2?

5. What does Hellena intend to find at the carnival?

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