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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 a commedia and today's example similar?
(a) Both have tragic endings.
(b) Both have dramatic events.
(c) Both have central characters that generally behave the same way no matter the specifics of the story in which they are involved.
(d) Both have music.

2. Where does this story take place?
(a) Paris, France.
(b) Seville, Spain.
(c) London, England.
(d) Madrid, Spain.

3. How does Rosine describe Figaro?
(a) As a good fellow.
(b) As a strange fellow.
(c) As her best friend.
(d) As a sneaky fellow.

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

5. What does Bartholo do after some more unhelpful questions and answers?
(a) He yells at his servants and fires them.
(b) He begins to cry.
(c) He leaves the servants, shocked.
(d) He dismisses the servants and grumbles about how worthless Figaro is.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Rosine react when Figaro tells her the truth about this man?

2. What does Figaro promise to do?

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

4. What does she tell Figaro to tell "Lindor?"

5. What does Rosine do in her free time?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Rosine do with the paper? How might this small prop draw the audience into the story?

2. Why does Rosine change her mind and decide to take a music lesson? Does Rosine know of the Count's plan? How does she react when she sees him?

3. Why do the servants say that they did not stop Figaro from coming in? How will Bartholo treat Figaro from now on? Why?

4. Who is Figaro? What is he doing as the audience and reader first meet him? What might be his role throughout the play?

5. What does Rosine do when she believes that "Lindor" was deceiving her, expressing love on someone else's behalf? How does this heighten the suspense?

6. Bartholo realizes "Alonzo" is not who he says he is, and "Alonzo" pretends to get upset, what does Rosine do? Do you believe this will happen?

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

8. What is Bartholo doing, as this scene opens? Why might she be refusing to take lessons from him?

9. How do you know that Rosine is cunning and intelligent?

10. Why does Bazile take money from the Count? How does his desire for money help the characters in this story?

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