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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bartholo tell Rosine the Count had told him?
(a) The Count loves her desperately and will be there around midnight.
(b) The Count never loved her and is not coming.
(c) The Count wrote her a love letter but Bartholo had destroyed it in a fit of rage.
(d) The Count showed the letter to another woman, and then told Bartholo the whole story in the hopes of getting Rosine away from the Count.

2. Bartholo calls Figaro a knave. What is Figaro's response?
(a) Yes, he is a knave.
(b) No, my middle name is Dave, not knave.
(c) He is not a knave; he is a writer.
(d) What is a knave.

3. Why does Bartholo lose his temper and grab the notary by the throat?
(a) He wants to marry Rosine right away.
(b) He has a short temper.
(c) He sees the Count kissing Rosine's hand and Figaro embracing Bazile.
(d) He has allowed the Count near Rosine.

4. How do Bartholo and Bazile, carrying a lantern, appear?
(a) In the middle of a dark night.
(b) On a bright, sunny day.
(c) In a cave.
(d) In the middle of a storm raging in the dark,

5. Why are Figaro and the Count trapped in Rosine's room?
(a) Someone has taken away the ladder they used to climb into the room.
(b) The door is locked.
(c) The entrances are all blocked.
(d) The window is boarded up.

6. How does Bartholo react to "Alonzo's" arrival?
(a) He is excited to meet the new teacher.
(b) He is surprised.
(c) He is nervous.
(d) He is immediately suspicious

7. What makes the Count reveal his true identity?
(a) Figaro tells him to tell her.
(b) Figaro calls the Count "my Lord."
(c) The expression on her face.
(d) His conscience tells him to tell her.

8. What do Figaro, the Count and Rosine barely have time to discuss, when Bartholo returns, angry with himself for leaving Figaro alone with "Alonzo" and Rosine?
(a) Where to hide.
(b) How much they dislike him.
(c) The need to have the keys to help Rosine escape.
(d) How they are going to do away with him.

9. What does Bartholo finally realize about "Alonzo?"
(a) He is not who he pretends to be.
(b) He is not a very good music teacher.
(c) He is in love with Rosine.
(d) He is better than Bazile.

10. To whom does Figaro say he is in the company of the Count?
(a) Bazile.
(b) Bartholo.
(c) One of the police officers.
(d) Rosine.

11. Why does the Count insist that the marriage is an honorable one?
(a) He got to her first.
(b) He has a title and is rich.
(c) She loves him.
(d) He loves her.

12. Why does the Count quickly change the plan, and tells the notary that the marriage between himself and Rosine scheduled for later that day is to be performed now?
(a) Bazile arrives with the notary.
(b) He does not want to lose Rosine to Bartholo.
(c) He cannot wait to marry Rosine.
(d) He wants Rosine to be his.

13. Why does Bartholo tell "Alonzo" to speak loudly?
(a) "Alonzo" speaks so quietly.
(b) He is deaf in one ear.
(c) There is a lot of noise in the house.
(d) Bartholo wants the entire house to hear him.

14. Why does the Count say that he has authority?
(a) He has the most power.
(b) He has the most money.
(c) He is the Count.
(d) He is the preferred lover of Rosine.

15. Why does Bartholo leave to get a basin?
(a) Figaro may get lost looking for one.
(b) Figaro does not know where they are.
(c) He wants to wash his hands.
(d) He does not trust Figaro, and his servants are out of commission.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Bartholo know there is a plot afoot?

2. Why does the Count tell Bartholo that he is here to teach Rosine singing?

3. What does the notary do when Bartholo asks to see the contract?

4. About what does Figaro complain?

5. When does Bazile say he will arrive with the notary to perform the wedding?

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