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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 4, Part 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 evil.
(b) They would expect him to be young and handsome.
(c) How this dumb servant hads humor to the play.
(d) How this greedy, old character would behave and how the other characters would react to him.

2. On what does Rosine hope Bartholo chokes?
(a) A chicken bone.
(b) His dinner.
(c) His own tongue.
(d) His own bad temper.

3. What does Bartholo say best friends will do?
(a) Take advantage.
(b) Take care of you.
(c) Love you.
(d) Be there forever.

4. For what does Figaro say he has come?
(a) To save Rosine.
(b) To sing and play his guitar for Bartholo.
(c) To shave Bartholo as usual, nothing more.
(d) To give his servants a shave.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Count reveal in an aside?

2. 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?

3. What does the Count protest?

4. What makes the Count reveal his true identity?

5. What does Rosine say about the man that Figaro was with?

(see the answer key)

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