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

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

3. Which one of the following characters is NOT interested in marrying Florinda?
(a) Don Vicentio.
(b) Ned Blunt.
(c) Don Antonio.
(d) Captain Belvile.

4. What is the important symbol that appears as the characters head to the carnival?
(a) The secret note.
(b) The mask.
(c) The rose.
(d) The rover.

5. The Rover was first performed on stage in what year?
(a) 1772.
(b) 1777.
(c) 1650.
(d) 1677.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What are the women's attitudes toward the men in Act 1, Scene 2?

3. As Pedro leaves the first scene, what does he tell the maid Callis to do?

4. Why is the playwright speaking in the prologue as a man?

5. Many of the characters behave according to what standard?

(see the answer key)

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