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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is Rosine alone at last and free to do as she pleases?
(a) The Count and Figaro have saved her.
(b) She has locked her door.
(c) The servants are all either unwell or busy.
(d) Bartholo is running errands.

2. On what does Figaro comment?
(a) Bartholo's command over Rosine.
(b) Bartholo's desire for information regarding "The Futile Precaution," suggesting that Bartholo's attempts to keep Rosine for himself are themselves futile precautions.
(c) Bartholo's severe behavior.
(d) Bartholo's love for Rosine.

3. How does Rosine get Bartholo to leave?
(a) She pushes him out the window.
(b) She asks Bartholo to run downstairs to retrieve the song.
(c) She pushes him out the door.
(d) She yells, "fire!"

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

5. About what does Bartholo complain?
(a) There was no one to make his dinner.
(b) There was no one to take care of his precious Rosine.
(c) There is no-one downstairs to keep strangers from coming up or playing tricks.
(d) There was no one to take his coat when he entered.

Short Answer Questions

1. As Figaro finishes singing his new composition, what does he realize about the "priest?"

2. From what is Bartholo exempt?

3. What will Figaro do while the Count gets himself into his disguise as a soldier?

4. What does Rosine say as she stands at her window?

5. How is Bartholo going to keep "accidents" from happening?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Figaro learn, while in a cupboard? What does Bazile suggest to Bartholo? What would be the outcome of this?

2. What remark does Figaro make when the Count romantically comments on Rosine's attractiveness? Why does he do this?

3. How does Figaro respond when Bartholo calls him a knave? What is a knave?

4. What is comedic in this scene, regarding Rosine's singing? How is this a display of commedia?

5. Although Rosine is under the legal marrying age, why does the Count say the marriage is legitimate? What does this say about the wealthy at the time the play was written and about the playwright's opinion of the wealthy?

6. What connection do Rosine and the Count make with the audience after she finishes singing? How do they feel? Why do they feel this way?

7. How is Rosine able to be alone and free? What might she be writing in her letter to "Lindor?"

8. What does Figaro say at the end of the play? What does this say about the playwright's opinion of youth, age, and love?

9. How does Rosine act when she sees the Count? How does she react when he tells her the letter was from him? Why does he still not reveal his identity?

10. What does the Count know about Rosine? How does Figaro correct the Count about his knowledge of this woman? How does knowledge help the play progress?

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