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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 5, Scene 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Ferdinand pay Bosola for murdering the Duchess?
(a) With horses and livestock
(b) He doesn't pay him.
(c) With jewels
(d) With gold

2. When the Cardinal and Ferdinand are speaking in Act 2, Scene 5, where does their conversation take place?
(a) The city market
(b) Julia's room
(c) The Cardinal's palace
(d) On the street

3. Initially, who is the Duchess is engaged to marry:
(a) No one
(b) Ferdinand
(c) the Cardinal
(d) Bosola

4. What is the Duchess supposed to do with the item Ferdinand gives her?
(a) Wear them at the next nobility event.
(b) Kill herself.
(c) He doesn't give her anything.
(d) Place them around her room.

5. After Ferdinand has gone mad, he is found wandering the streets carrying what?
(a) Dead body parts he has dug up out of graves.
(b) Pieces of dead animals.
(c) Rotting vegetables and other items from the trash.
(d) Foul-smelling potions and objects from a nearby doctor.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the Duchess tells Ferdinand what she thought of his advice about remarrying, he:

2. Who kills Antonio?

3. What has happened to the number of the Duchess and Antonio's servants after Antonio and the Duchess leave Malfi?

4. What is/are the gender(s) of the Duchess's child(ren)?

5. Which severed body part does Ferdinand give the Duchess during her imprisonment?

(see the answer key)

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