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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 2, Scenes 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following characters are the names of the soldiers who are helping with the plan to kill the king?
(a) Manure and Buggerless.
(b) Wenceslas and Duncan.
(c) Boleslas and Ladislas.
(d) Heads and Tails.

2. Why does Ma get angry with Pa?
(a) He is using language she doesn't want her guests to hear.
(b) He is calling her names.
(c) He is eating the food she is saving for her guests.
(d) He is taking down the decorations that she put up.

3. What happened in Rosamund's dream?
(a) She saw everyone at the parade turning on the king.
(b) She saw the king dead and the crown given to Pa Ubu.
(c) She saw Buggerless killing is father.
(d) She saw Pa Ubu killing the king.

4. How does Pa react to the news?
(a) He becomes cowardly.
(b) He says he will kill him during the meeting.
(c) He verbally screams at Ma.
(d) He cries uncontrollable.

5. Which of the following is one of the main themes of this play?
(a) Excessive natures are poor relationships.
(b) Life and relationships are chaotic.
(c) It is through life and relationships that meaning can be drawn.
(d) Relationships are the meaning of life.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the king remind Pa that he has to come to?

2. Which of the following describes how the language of the play opens?

3. What does Ma tell Pa about his thoughts?

4. What does Buggerless do right after he witnesses the attack?

5. Why does the king punish Buggerless?

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