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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 3, Scene 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Florinda do to test Belvile's love for her as they are standing around with Frederica and Valeria?
(a) She gives him a complicated quiz.
(b) While still in disguise, she offers him a lock of her hair as a token of her affection.
(c) She removes her disguise and offers him a ring as a token of her affection.
(d) While still in disguise, she offers him a ring as a token of her affection.

2. Why is the playwright speaking in the prologue as a man?
(a) The play was written by a man.
(b) The audience is always just men.
(c) The audience is deaf.
(d) The audience prefers a male playwright over a female.

3. After stepping out of sight of the approaching Englishmen in the beginning of Act 3, what does Hellena overhear Willmore telling his friends?
(a) He professes his love for Angellica.
(b) He professes his love for the gypsy girl.
(c) He brags happily about good a time he had with Angellica.
(d) He brags loudly about his many conquests.

4. Why doesn't the playwright want to say anything to welcome the audience?
(a) He says the audience didn't pay to get in.
(b) He says the play is bad.
(c) He says they should all go home.
(d) He says it doesn't matter.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the typical role of a woman at the time the play was written?

2. What is unusual about the three couples at the center of the play?

3. What kind of "mask" does Willmore show Angellica in their first meeting?

4. Which suitor does Florinda's brother Pedro hope she will marry?

5. Florinda is in love with which of the following characters?

(see the answer key)

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