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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Antipholus of Syracuse say he wants Luciana to teach him?
(a) How to think and speak.
(b) How to love.
(c) How to speak.
(d) How to think.

2. What is Antipholus of Syracuse musing about at the beginning of Act 4, Scene 3?
(a) The boat.
(b) The strange treatment he has been receiving.
(c) Luciana.
(d) The chain.

3. Who says, "To yield possession to my holy prayers and to thy state of darkness hie thee straight"?
(a) Adriana.
(b) The conjuror.
(c) The officer.
(d) Antipholus of Ephesus.

4. Which characters are talking with each other at the beginning of Act 3, Scene 2?
(a) Antipholus of Syracuse and Luciana.
(b) Adriana and Luciana.
(c) Luce and Dromio of Syracuse.
(d) Antipholus of Syracuse and Adriana.

5. Who says, "But, sirrah, you shall buy this sport as dear as all the metal in your shop will answer"?
(a) Antipholus of Ephesus.
(b) The Second Merchant.
(c) Angelo.
(d) Dromio of Syracuse.

6. What type of "limbo" does Dromio of Syracuse tell Adriana that Antipholus is in?
(a) Wild.
(b) Buxom.
(c) Silly.
(d) Tartar.

7. In Act 3, Scene 2, why does Angelo NOT bring the item he gives to Antipholus of Syracuse to the restaurant as originally planned?
(a) He misplaced his ride.
(b) The item was unfinished, which made him late.
(c) He got caught up with a customer.
(d) He lost the item.

8. Who says, "I cannot, nor I will not, hold me still; my tongue, though not my heart, shall have his will"?
(a) Adriana.
(b) Luciana.
(c) Angelo.
(d) Antipholus of Syracuse.

9. Finish the sentence: "Nay, 'tis for me to be patient; I am in ______."
(a) Adversity.
(b) Silence.
(c) Calm.
(d) Trouble.

10. Where does Act 4, Scene 2 take place?
(a) Antipholus of Ephesus' house.
(b) The palace.
(c) The Tiger.
(d) The market.

11. What does the Courtesan question Antipholus of Syracuse about when she first sees him in Act 4, Scene 3?
(a) The bail money.
(b) The chain.
(c) The rope's end.
(d) The ring.

12. What does Dromio of Syracuse claim has turned itself backwards?
(a) Life.
(b) Reality.
(c) Time.
(d) The world.

13. Who is waiting on the street at the beginning of Act 4, Scene 4?
(a) Antipholus of Ephesus and an officer.
(b) The Second Merchant and Angelo.
(c) Antipholus of Syracuse and Dromio of Ephesus.
(d) Dromio of Syracuse and Angelo.

14. Finish the sentence: "And in the instant that I met with you he had of me a chain: at five o'clock I shall receive the money for the _____."
(a) Flame.
(b) Same.
(c) Claim.
(d) Piece.

15. Who fetches the item that Dromio of Syracuse requests in Act 4, Scene 2?
(a) Luce.
(b) Nell.
(c) Adriana.
(d) Luciana.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Antipholus of Ephesus do when Dromio makes a joke about the bail money?

2. Where does the Second Merchant tell Angelo he is about to travel to during their conversation in Act 4, Scene 1?

3. Who is the first person to be threatened with arrest by the officer in Act 4, Scene 1?

4. What does Antipholus of Syracuse ask Dromio of Syracuse about when he runs into him in Act 4, Scene 3?

5. Who says, "Besides this present instance of his rage, is a mad tale he told to-day at dinner, of his own doors being shut against his entrance"?

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