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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. How is a commedia and today's example similar?
(a) Both have tragic endings.
(b) Both have music.
(c) Both have central characters that generally behave the same way no matter the specifics of the story in which they are involved.
(d) Both have dramatic events.

2. For whom does Count Almaviva wait?
(a) Rosine.
(b) Bartholo.
(c) Rosaline.
(d) Figaro.

3. As Figaro finishes singing his new composition, what does he realize about the "priest?"
(a) He looks unhappy.
(b) He looks odd.
(c) He looks worried.
(d) He looks familiar.

4. To what does Rosine's letter refer?
(a) Bartholo's obsessive behavior.
(b) The Count's devotion.
(c) The Count's obsessive behavior.
(d) Bartholo's devotion.

5. What story has Bartholo spread around to keep potential lovers away?
(a) That she is a widow.
(b) That she is mentally unstable.
(c) That he and Rosine are married.
(d) That she is very young.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Count instantly resolve to do?

2. For what does the Count long?

3. How is Rosine alone at last and free to do as she pleases?

4. Why does Figaro lend the Count his guitar, telling him to sing anything that comes into his mind?

5. What does Rosine do in her free time?

(see the answer key)

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