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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 does Rosine get Bartholo to leave?
(a) She yells, "fire!"
(b) She pushes him out the door.
(c) She pushes him out the window.
(d) She asks Bartholo to run downstairs to retrieve the song.

2. Of what does Figaro remind the Count?
(a) The letter asked him to write her a sonnet.
(b) The letter asked him to hear her sing.
(c) The letter asked him to sing.
(d) The letter asked him to play her a song.

3. Bartholo assumes the song is a "new sort of silliness," and talks grumpily about what?
(a) How she is a horrible singer, and he does not want to hear it.
(b) How he envies her talents and hopes she will teach him to sing.
(c) How there is so much nonsense around- especially the "new fangled Drama."
(d) How he despises musicians and wishes she did not take lessons.

4. What has taught Figaro to be so positive.?
(a) His mother was always a positive woman.
(b) Prayer.
(c) His life experiences.
(d) He forced himself to laugh out of being afraid that he would cry.

5. Who does Figaro say he was talking to on the street?
(a) A very wealthy Count.
(b) A poor relative who might have done well if he had not had to leave Madrid so quickly.
(c) Bartholo.
(d) His friend from his previous employment.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what does the Count romantically comment?

2. What does Figaro tell the Count about Rosine's music teacher?

3. How does Rosine describe Figaro?

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

5. Why does Figaro tell the Count to pose as a drunken member of a military detachment in town and introduce himself to Bartholo?

(see the answer key)

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