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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What item does the mother ask her son if he is wearing?

2. Where does Act 1, Scene 2 take place?

3. Who is described as a "tall, stern woman"?

4. Who said, "You have to punish it, torture it, to get anything!"?

5. What does the mother tell her son to buy his fiancée?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the bride come out of her room and confront Leonardo just before her wedding?

2. What reasons does Leonardo give his wife for being rude to the girl who tells them about the son buying gifts for the bride?

3. What does the mother say about the bride after she has discovered she ran off with Leonardo?

4. What does the mother say about the day her other son died?

5. What do the son/groom and Leonardo's wife talk about after the wedding?

6. What does the mother tell her son she thinks of his getting married?

7. Why does the mother refuse to leave her home to live with her son?

8. What item do the servant girls bother the bride about after the wedding and how does she react towards them?

9. What does the bride's father say about grandchildren?

10. What case does the bride want to make to the mother after the two men have died?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the characters' struggles with being an individual versus being a member of society. What visible boundaries do the characters have for trying to do both?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the concept of fate in the play. What role does fate play in the lives of the play's characters? Does anyone tempt or try and alter their fate? If so, what are the ramifications of this?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the strained relationships in the play. What is the relationship between the characters that shows the most strain? What are the reasons or motivations for their strain?

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