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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Figaro carrying with him, when he arrives?
(a) A violin.
(b) A hat and a cane.
(c) A paint palet and brushes.
(d) A guitar hung over his shoulder and a pencil and paper in his hand.

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

3. While Figaro is composing a song, through what does he go?
(a) Several violin strings.
(b) Several different tunes.
(c) Several different sets of lyrics.
(d) Several guitar pics.

4. Why does the Count recognize Figaro?
(a) Figaro lived next door to him.
(b) Figaro was once in the Count's service.
(c) Figaro was once his tutor.
(d) They went to school together.

5. Why does Figaro leave Madrid and cheerfully wander through Spain?
(a) When he realized the audiences did not appreciate his work, he decided to write music for himself.
(b) When he realized that the critics were more interested in their own political in-fighting and were never going to welcome him.
(c) He missed playing the violin, so he found work as a violin maker and salesman.
(d) He realized the theatre life was not for him, so he went back to writing poetry.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. For whom is Rosine's paper?

3. How does the Count meet Rosine?

4. What does Rosine say as she stands at her window?

5. What does Rosine do with the song?

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