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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Viola solicit to “untangle this” confusion in Act II Scene II?
(a) Love
(b) Fate
(c) God
(d) Time

2. What does Sebastian believe has happened to his sister in Act II Scene I?
(a) She was hanged
(b) She drowned
(c) She married
(d) She was stabbed

3. Olivia’s court jester states in Act I Scene V, “Many a good hanging prevents” what?
(a) A bad marriage
(b) A bad dropping
(c) A bad life
(d) A bad engagement

4. Viola states in a soliloquy in Act II Scene II, “Fortune forbid my outside have not” what?
(a) Hasten’d her
(b) Chasten’d her
(c) Denied her
(d) Charm’d her

5. When the jester enters in Act II Scene III Sir Andrew Aguecheek speaks of his discussion of whom from the night before?
(a) Aristotle
(b) Pigrogromitus
(c) Pythagoras
(d) Socrates

6. How is Sir Toby Belch related to Olivia in the play?
(a) He is her brother
(b) He is her uncle
(c) He is her cousin
(d) He is her father

7. The Captain compares Viola’s brother to whom “on the dolphin’s back” in Act I Scene II?
(a) Vulcan
(b) Jove
(c) Phoenix
(d) Arion

8. What word does Maria use in Act II Scene III that means to howl or screech like cats?
(a) Mellifluous
(b) Hyperbolical
(c) Consecrated
(d) Caterwauling

9. When the jester enters in Act II Scene III Sir Andrew Aguecheek speaks of his discussion of whom “passing the equinoctial of Queubus”?
(a) The Romans
(b) The cannibals
(c) The Vaspians
(d) The French

10. What is the name of Olivia’s lady-in-waiting?
(a) Madonna
(b) Katharina
(c) Viola
(d) Maria

11. When given money to sing a song for Sir Toby Belch, the jester asks if he would like a love-song or what in Act II Scene III?
(a) A sorrowful song
(b) A dancing number
(c) A song of good fortune
(d) A song of good life

12. Who asks Sir Toby Belch and Sir Andrew in Act II Scene III, “Is there no respect of place, persons, nor time in you?”
(a) Olivia
(b) Fabian
(c) Orsino
(d) Malvolio

13. What is the setting of Act II Scene V?
(a) Before Olivia’s house
(b) The sea-coast
(c) Duke Orsino’s Palace
(d) Olivia’s garden

14. Sir Toby Belch sings of the twelfth day of what month in Act II Scene III?
(a) June
(b) October
(c) December
(d) May

15. What “foolish knight” does Maria say Sir Toby Belch brought to woo Olivia in Act I Scene III?
(a) Titus
(b) Sir Topas
(c) Sir Andrew Aguecheek
(d) Malvolio

Short Answer Questions

1. Maria tells Sir Toby Belch that Olivia takes great exceptions to his what in Act I Scene III?

2. Who claims not to care “for good life” in Act II Scene III?

3. Who governs the land where Viola arrives in Act I Scene II, according to the Captain?

4. The jester says in Act II Scene III that “Malvolio’s nose is no” what?

5. Where does Viola say her brother is in Act I Scene II?

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