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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1, Scene 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Antipholus of Syracuse question Dromio of Ephesus about in Act 1, Scene 2?
(a) The weather.
(b) The money he gave him.
(c) If he has found a way home.
(d) Where they will go for dinner.

2. What does the Duke offer Egeon at the end of Act 1, Scene 1?
(a) To let him go for nothing.
(b) To not make him pay a ransom.
(c) To let him go in exchange for his labor.
(d) To let him go into the city and borrow money for his ransom.

3. Finish the sentence: "Whom whilst I labour'd of a love to see, I hazarded the loss of whom I ____."
(a) Know.
(b) Loved.
(c) Missed.
(d) Had.

4. Who is the first to speak in Act 1, Scene 2?
(a) The First Merchant.
(b) The Second Merchant.
(c) Antipholus of Ephesus.
(d) Angelo.

5. From where did Egeon say the boat was that rescued his wife and one of his sons?
(a) Corinth.
(b) Africa.
(c) Greece.
(d) Syracuse.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Antipholus of Syracuse do to Dromio of Ephesus after he begins talking about Antipholus' wife in Act 1, Scene 2?

2. Where is Act 1, Scene 2 set?

3. Finish the sentence: "We being strangers here, how darest thou trust so great a charge from thine own ______."

4. What does the Duke tell Egeon he can do "to make up the sum" of his ransom?

5. Who says, "Yet this my comfort: when your words are done, my woes end likewise with the evening sun"?

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