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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. Where does Blunt end up after he leaves Lucetta's house?
(a) Naked in the ocean.
(b) Naked in the sewer.
(c) Naked, roaming the streets lost.
(d) Naked in the woods.
2. What does Hellena make Willmore promise after she catches him coming out of Angellica's house?
(a) Hellena says she will never see him again unless he refuses to see Angellica
(b) Hellena says she will never see him again unless he refuses to pay her brother money.
(c) Hellena says she will never see him again unless he marries her.
(d) Hellena says she will never see him again unless he refuses to see Lucetta.
3. Why doesn't the playwright want to say anything to welcome the audience?
(a) He says they should all go home.
(b) He says it doesn't matter.
(c) He says the audience didn't pay to get in.
(d) He says the play is bad.
4. Why is the playwright speaking in the prologue as a man?
(a) The play was written by a man.
(b) The audience prefers a male playwright over a female.
(c) The audience is deaf.
(d) The audience is always just men.
5. Where do Florinda and Belvile make arrangements to meet when they see each other at the carnival?
(a) That night at her house.
(b) The next morning at the garden gate.
(c) The next morning at Belvile's house.
(d) That night at the garden gate.
Short Answer Questions
1. Why doesn' t Pedro know who the Englishmen were he fought off with his sword after the attack on Florinda?
2. Which of the following is NOT an example of foreshadowing in Act 1, Scene 2?
3. Angellica allows which man to come inside her house without charge, something she rarely does?
4. What state is Willmore in when he sees Florinda waiting for Belvile in the garden?
5. What is the typical role of a woman at the time the play was written?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the overall tone of the scenes in Act 3 with Ned Blunt?
2. What is a soliloquy?
3. Why doesn't Angellica let Antonio kill Willmore in Act 5, Part 2?
4. How does Willmore feel about women in general?
5. What is a striking difference between how Pedro expects Hellena and Florinda to behave and how they actually act?
6. How does the bawdy conversation between Valeria, Hellena, and Florinda at the beginning of Act 3 parallel some of the men's conversations in earlier scenes?
7. What kind of book is Blunt reading as Florinda comes in and sees him in Belvile's house?
8. Why is Pedro in such a bad mood in Act 3, Scene 1?
9. What are the merits of Don Antonio as a husband?
10. What is a farce?
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