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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Rosine hand to Figaro?
(a) His guitar.
(b) The note she has just written.
(c) A violin.
(d) A new song she has written.

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

4. What story has Bartholo spread around to keep potential lovers away?
(a) That he and Rosine are married.
(b) That she is mentally unstable.
(c) That she is a widow.
(d) That she is very young.

5. What does she tell Figaro to tell "Lindor?"
(a) All she wants is his love.
(b) She wants to marry him.
(c) All she wants is friendship.
(d) She never wants to see him again.

6. Why does the Count ask what Figaro is doing in Seville?
(a) He thought Figaro had died.
(b) Since the Count got Figaro a job in the government.
(c) Since the Count found Figaro a job as a writer.
(d) He heard Figaro had moved to Paris.

7. What does the Count do, regarding Rosine's song?
(a) He listens to her sing it.
(b) He darts out from his hiding place and grabs it.
(c) He sings it to her.
(d) He tears it up.

8. What does the Count do when Bartholo demands again to see the letter?
(a) The Count gives him a second letter.
(b) The Count says he cannot show him the letter.
(c) The Count gives him the letter.
(d) The Count tears up the letter.

9. Where does this scene take place?
(a) In the Count's home.
(b) In Figaro's shop.
(c) In Rosine's room in Bartholo's house.
(d) In Bartholo's room.

10. Bartholo assumes the song is a "new sort of silliness," and talks grumpily about what?
(a) How there is so much nonsense around- especially the "new fangled Drama."
(b) How he envies her talents and hopes she will teach him to sing.
(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.

11. What would Rosine prefer the man to do?
(a) She would prefer that he go back to Madrid.
(b) She would prefer it if he would be calm when he tells her he loves her.
(c) She would prefer it that he leave the property.
(d) She would prefer that the man would excitedly tell her how he feels.

12. Rosine loses her temper, accusing Bartholo of what?
(a) Keeping her in a dungeon.
(b) Leaving her all alone.
(c) Being unkind to her.
(d) Keeping her love from her.

13. What happens when Bartholo leaves the room?
(a) The Count tells Rosine he will come for her at midnight.
(b) The Count leaves.
(c) The Count saves Rosine.
(d) The Count and Rosine are left alone to flirt with each other.

14. Of what does Figaro remind the Count?
(a) The letter asked him to sing.
(b) The letter asked him to write her a sonnet.
(c) The letter asked him to play her a song.
(d) The letter asked him to hear her sing.

15. Why is the Count unable to hand Rosine the real love letter?
(a) Bartholo has already stolen it.
(b) He has lost it.
(c) He never wrote one.
(d) Bartholo comes back too soon.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Rosine alone at last and free to do as she pleases?

2. Why are Bartholo's servants not very helpful?

3. What does the Count comically struggle to do?

4. What would Bazile's suggestion do to the Count?

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

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