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This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what does Bartholo accuse Figaro?

2. To whom does Figaro say he is in the company of the Count?

3. Rosine comes in, refusing to take any more music lessons from anybody. Why does she quickly change her mind?

4. Why does the Count insist that the marriage is an honorable one?

5. Why is there a lot of whispering back and forth between the characters?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Rosine is alone at last and free to do as she pleases in Act 2, Part 1.

Part 1) How does she gain this freedom?

Part 2) What does she do with her freedom?

Part 3) How does this first moment of freedom begin the sequence of events that leads to her absolute freedom?

Essay Topic 2

The Count and Figaro know one another.

Part 1) How do they know one another?

Part 2) Why does Figaro offer his services to the Count?

Part 3) Why might the playwright have chosen a lowly barber and a prominent Count to be friends and cohorts?

Essay Topic 3

Bazile can easily be won over with money.

Part 1) Give three examples of this.

Part 2) How has he hurt and helped the Count?

Part 3) What commedia character does he represent? Would an audience have been satisfied by this character? Why or why not?

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