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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On what commedia type is Bazile based?
(a) The fighter.
(b) The lover.
(c) The self-absorbed, money-grasping old man.
(d) The stupid servant.

2. For whom is Rosine's paper?
(a) Figaro.
(b) Bartholo.
(c) Her cousin.
(d) The Count.

3. How is Rosine alone at last and free to do as she pleases?
(a) She has locked her door.
(b) The Count and Figaro have saved her.
(c) The servants are all either unwell or busy.
(d) Bartholo is running errands.

4. What does Rosine tell Bartholo is on the paper she is holding?
(a) A new song for her to play on the harp.
(b) A new song for Bartholo to sing.
(c) A new song for her to sing to Bartholo.
(d) A new song from her music teacher called "The Futile Precaution."

5. What will Figaro do while the Count gets himself into his disguise as a soldier?
(a) He will go to his shop and wait for the Count.
(b) He will go into the house and drug the servants.
(c) He will guide the Count on how to behave.
(d) He will sit and watch.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what does Figaro remind the Count?

2. To what does Rosine's letter refer?

3. How is a commedia and today's example similar?

4. Why is Count Almaviva disguised as a priest in a cloak and turned down hat?

5. What does Figaro suggest is impossible?

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