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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the Cardinal believe the Duchess should be punished?
(a) By going into solitude for 1 year.
(b) He believes she should be forgiven for her sins.
(c) By being banished with Antonio and their children.
(d) By having to pay the church as penance for her sins.

2. When the Cardinal asks Bosola to kill Antonio, Bosola:
(a) Hires someone else to do it.
(b) Says he'll do it, but for a very high price.
(c) Agrees to do it.
(d) Lies to the Cardinal, and says he'll do it.

3. Antonio says that he is glad to die when he hears the news of:
(a) His son's plans to marry.
(b) The new king taking the throne.
(c) The Cardinal being named pope.
(d) The murder of his wife and children.

4. Ferdinand believes that the Duchess is damned specifically because:
(a) She has made a false religious pilgrimage.
(b) She has lied to members of the church.
(c) She has had children while remaining unmarried.
(d) She has lied to her brothers.

5. Who kills Antonio?
(a) Julia
(b) The Cardinal
(c) His own son
(d) Bosola

6. What does Ferdinand tell Bosola to do in regards to the Duke of Malfi?
(a) Advise him about the problems in the local government.
(b) Go and seek his religious counsel.
(c) Write to him.
(d) Ask him for money for the upcoming war.

7. How does Antonio die?
(a) He is poisoned.
(b) He is drowned.
(c) He is strangled.
(d) He is stabbed.

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

9. Why do the pilgrims think what they do about the Duchess's choice to marry Antonio?
(a) They are surprised, because the Duchess is "beneath" Antonio.
(b) They are surprised, because Antonio is "beneath" the Duchess.
(c) They are grateful to God for such a happy union.
(d) They are happy, because the wedding has been planned for a long time.

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

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

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

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

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

15. What does Delio think of Antonio confronting the Cardinal with the hope of reconciliation?
(a) That Antonio has also gone mad.
(b) That Antonio should not go on such a dangerous errand.
(c) That Antonio should pray at a church first.
(d) That they should hire Ferdinand to confront the Cardinal.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bosola bring to the Duchess and Antonio once they have left Malfi?

2. Ancona is the name of:

3. The item Bosola brings to Antonio and the Duchess is originally from:

4. How is Julia murdered?

5. When the Duchess sees the fake scene, what does she express?

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