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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What position is the Cardinal resigning from?
(a) Being in charge of the town's finances.
(b) Official historian of the town.
(c) Cardinal
(d) Governor

2. Bosola believes he is haunted by:
(a) The Duchess's children
(b) The Duchess
(c) The father he never knew
(d) His dead mother

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Delio feel about the Cardinal and Antonio's plan to confront him?

2. Ferdinand believes that the Duchess is damned specifically because:

3. Who is the Duke of Malfi?

4. How does Antonio die?

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

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