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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bosola do upon finding Antonio's dropped item outside of the Duchess's door?
(a) Use it to blackmail Antonio later
(b) Send a letter to the Duchess's brothers
(c) Burn it
(d) Plan to sell it in the morning

2. What item does Ferdinand give the Duchess when he leaps into her room and surprises her?
(a) A dagger
(b) Nothing
(c) Flowers
(d) Jewels for her birthday

3. What causes Antonio to be suspicious of Bosola?
(a) Bosola's wandering around the palace after everyone was supposed to stay in their rooms.
(b) The book Bosola is reading.
(c) The lyrics of a song Bosola is singing
(d) How Bosola is dressed.

4. What does Bosola suspect is "wrong" with the Duchess?
(a) That she is spending lots of money in secret.
(b) That she is planning to join a nunnery.
(c) That she is going to run away.
(d) That she is pregnant.

5. What does Bosola give to the Duchess to try to find out the truth about her "condition"?
(a) Plums
(b) Apples
(c) Apricots
(d) Cherries

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

7. Ferdinand's behavior upon hearing the news foreshadows:
(a) His financial ruin.
(b) His death from the plague.
(c) His repentance.
(d) His coming madness

8. What does Delio tell Antonio to ease his fears after the Duchess eats the fruit Bosola gave her?
(a) That he'll start spying on the Duchess and tell Antonio what he learns.
(b) That he'll still get the Duchess's money, even if she dies.
(c) That he worries too much about everything.
(d) To tell others that the Duchess is sick from Bosola's "poisoned" apricots.

9. Which of the following does Ferdinand propose be done to the subject of the news?
(a) Steal back the jewels.
(b) Find the thief and kill him.
(c) Search for the Duchess.
(d) Make a soup out of the baby.

10. What happens to Antonio as a result of the Duchess's lie?
(a) He is fired.
(b) He is sent off as "punishment."
(c) He is executed that night.
(d) He is thrown in a Malfi jail.

11. After Ferdinand confronts the Duchess about her children, which of the following does the Duchess offer to Ferdinand?
(a) Her promise never to disobey him again if he will only lend her some money.
(b) Nothing; she refuses to speak to him.
(c) Information that Ferdinand is being spied upon by the Cardinal.
(d) That he can finally meet her husband -- and know who he is.

12. Which of the following characters are all related?
(a) Ferdinand, Antonio, and Bosola
(b) Antonio, Bosola, and the Duchess
(c) The Cardinal, Ferdinand, and the Duchess
(d) The Cardinal, Ferdinand, and Antonio

13. When the Duchess first plans to speak with Antonio, she asks Cariola to:
(a) Leave the building.
(b) Fix her hair and make-up.
(c) Go start cooking dinner for everyone.
(d) Hide behind a curtain.

14. What is/are the gender(s) of the Duchess's child(ren)?
(a) One girl, but she died
(b) Two boys and two girls
(c) Two boys and one girl
(d) Two boys

15. What key information does Bosola still not understand by the end of Act 2, Scene 3?
(a) That Antonio knows he is a spy for the Duchess's brothers.
(b) That the Duchess has fled in the night.
(c) That Antonio is stealing the Duchess's money.
(d) That the Duchess and Antonio are married.

Short Answer Questions

1. After Ferdinand returns to the Duchess's palace to confront her about her children, which of the following does The Duchess finally confess to Ferdinand?

2. Antonio tells Bosola that Bosola is the chief suspect in:

3. Ferdinand believes the Duchess's reputation is ruined because:

4. The Duchess believes her reputation to be safe because:

5. What do Antonio and the Duchess tease Cariola about when Act 3, Scene 2 opens?

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