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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kept the audience's interest?
(a) Wondering what the character would look like.
(b) Wondering if the actor would be very good.
(c) Wondering about the details of this young, handsome lover.
(d) Wondering about the details of both the greedy old man's character and the reactions of the others.

2. 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 is a poet and an editor for a publishing company.
(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.

3. What would Bazile's suggestion do to the Count?
(a) Keep him from Rosine.
(b) Destroy the Count more thoroughly than a beating.
(c) Destroy his looks and Rosine's love for him.
(d) Send him to another country.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Figaro suggest is impossible?

2. For whom does Count Almaviva wait?

3. Rosine wonders whether Bartholo thinks she would not be able to resist even the attractions of a servant like Figaro, which leads Bartholo to make what suggestion?

4. What is Figaro carrying with him, when he arrives?

5. To what can commedia be compared today?

(see the answer key)

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