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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 is Figaro's job situation?
(a) He works as a violin maker and travels Spain selling his wares.
(b) He is a travelling minstrel, playing music for anyone who will listen.
(c) 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.
(d) He is a poet and an editor for a publishing company.

2. Where does this story take place?
(a) Seville, Spain.
(b) London, England.
(c) Paris, France.
(d) Madrid, Spain.

3. At a performance of this play when it was first written, what expectations would the audience have had?
(a) They would expect him to be young and handsome.
(b) How this greedy, old character would behave and how the other characters would react to him.
(c) They would expect him to be evil.
(d) How this dumb servant hads humor to the play.

4. How does Count Almaviva feel about his situation?
(a) Confused.
(b) Angry.
(c) Confident.
(d) Nervous.

5. What does Rosine do with the song?
(a) She drops it out the window.
(b) She throws it in the fire.
(c) She tears it up.
(d) She gives it to Bartholo.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. While Figaro is composing a song, through what does he go?

3. What do the Count and Figaro discover about the song?

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

5. What does Rosine tell Bartholo is on the paper she is holding?

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