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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Figaro tell the Count about Rosine's music teacher?
(a) He is kind and gentle.
(b) He is self-absorbed and greedy.
(c) He is in love with Rosine.
(d) He is Bartholo's brother.

2. How does the Count meet Rosine?
(a) At his home.
(b) By chance at the store.
(c) By chance on a street in Madrid.
(d) At a party help in Madrid.

3. What is Figaro's job situation?
(a) He works as a violin maker and travels Spain selling his wares.
(b) He is a poet and an editor for a publishing company.
(c) He is a travelling minstrel, playing music for anyone who will listen.
(d) He was apprenticed to a horse doctor, but when his superior found out that he was also writing poetry, love letters and contributing to the local newspaper, he was fired.

4. What is Figaro's comment regarding women being locked up?
(a) The cleverness of women decreases.
(b) The desperation of women increases.
(c) The desperation of women decreases.
(d) The cleverness of women increases.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Figaro offer the Count?

2. At a performance of this play when it was first written, what expectations would the audience have had?

3. What has taught Figaro to be so positive.?

4. What does the Count vow to do?

5. Of what does Figaro remind the Count?

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