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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the final comments from the pilgrims foreshadow?
(a) The happiness in the future for Antonio and the Duchess.
(b) That the Duchess's daughter will get the plague.
(c) Antonio's impending doom.
(d) War from a neighboring country.

2. What has happened to the number of the Duchess and Antonio's servants after Antonio and the Duchess leave Malfi?
(a) It has decreased as the servants have fled.
(b) It has increased as the servants took pity on them.
(c) It has stayed more or less the same.
(d) It has increased, because the Duchess received all of the Cardinal's old servants.

3. When the Duchess is imprisoned, Ferdinand shows her a scene that she does not know is fake. What does the scene show?
(a) Her murdered husband and children.
(b) Her imprisoned servants
(c) Her imprisoned husband and children
(d) Her murdered servants

4. Which community members does Ferdinand round up as part of his sister's torture?
(a) Local soldiers trained in physical torture
(b) Priests to remind her of her sins
(c) Madmen from the local hospital
(d) Sick people from the village

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

6. Which severed body part does Ferdinand give the Duchess during her imprisonment?
(a) A hand
(b) A head
(c) A foot
(d) A leg

7. When Cariola is being murdered, she:
(a) Fights and struggles.
(b) Takes poison to die more quickly.
(c) Stabs herself before the executioners can get to her.
(d) Throws herself on the Duchess's dead body.

8. As the message is delivered to the Cardinal and Ferdinand, what are other people in the room observing?
(a) The horrible anger and violence on their faces.
(b) How quietly they are talking.
(c) How loudly they are yelling.
(d) How joyous they seem to be about some news.

9. After learning that the Cardinal is giving away Antonio's property, Antonio decides to try to:
(a) Sneak into the Cardinal's room that night.
(b) Frighten the Cardinal into a reconciliation.
(c) Die trying to reconcile if the Cardinal won't budge.
(d) All of these answers are correct.

10. What is the Duchess's last statement before she dies?
(a) "Forgive me."
(b) "Antonio!"
(c) "Mercy."
(d) "I forgive you."

11. Antonio and Delio are talking in a public place about the Cardinal's proposed offer of reconciliation. What does Delio think of it?
(a) He thinks the Cardinal is finally being genuine.
(b) He is unsure, and says he doesn't know how to counsel Antonio.
(c) He knows it is fake, because he helped the Cardinal write it.
(d) He doubts its sincerity.

12. What kind of plot are the men planning when Act 3, Scene 3 first opens?
(a) A movie plot
(b) A military plot
(c) A gambling plot
(d) A romantic plot

13. Antonio says he does not want to live his life "by halves." What does this mean?
(a) That he wants to remarry.
(b) That he needs to get servants to help around the house.
(c) That he wants to be rich again.
(d) That he doesn't want to live in hiding and in fear.

14. What women are involved in the scheming of Act 3, Scene 3?
(a) Cariola
(b) Julia
(c) None
(d) The Old Woman

15. When Antonio and the Duchess separate at the end of Act 3, Antonio takes with him:
(a) What little money they have left
(b) Their eldest son
(c) All of their children
(d) Their family crest

Short Answer Questions

1. Antonio's murder was:

2. Who is the Duke of Malfi?

3. What position is the Cardinal resigning from?

4. How do Antonio and Delio decide to test the Cardinal's offer of reconciliation?

5. What does the Cardinal do to the Duchess and her family?

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