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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What caused Egeon and his family to become separated according to his story in Act 1, Scene 1?
(a) The ship hit a rock.
(b) A wave knocked them over.
(c) The crew separated them.
(d) The ship struck an iceberg.

2. What does the Duke tell Egeon he wishes he could reverse, but cannot?
(a) Egeon's misfortune in losing his family.
(b) Egeon's execution.
(c) Egeon's ransom amount.
(d) Egeon's son being lost.

3. Finish the sentence: "Time is their master, and, when they see time, they'll go or come: if so, be patient, ______."
(a) Wife.
(b) Friend.
(c) Sister.
(d) Brother.

4. Finish the sentence: "Husband, I'll dine above with you to-day and shrive you of a thousand idle _____."
(a) Days.
(b) Hours.
(c) Minds.
(d) Pranks.

5. What caused Egeon and his family to abandon the ship carrying them home according to his story in Act 1, Scene 1?
(a) Bad weather.
(b) An attack.
(c) They were made to abandon ship by the crew.
(d) The crew had become sick.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Antipholus of Syracuse decide to go at the end of Act 1, Scene 2?

2. Finish the sentence: "But your reason was not substantial, why there is no time to _____."

3. What does Antipholus of Syracuse question Dromio of Ephesus about in Act 1, Scene 2?

4. Who says, "Fie, brother! how the world is changed with you!"?

5. Who says, "What, wilt thou flout me thus unto my face, being forbid? There, take you that, sir knave"?

(see the answer key)

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