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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. How is the Duchess murdered?
(a) By strangulation
(b) By poison
(c) By hanging
(d) By stabbing

5. Bosola learns of the Cardinal's plans to kill him by:
(a) A letter Antonio sent him.
(b) Overhearing him.
(c) A dropped letter he found.
(d) The Cardinal told him directly.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Ferdinand pay Bosola for murdering the Duchess?

2. What does Antonio think the Duchess's dream means?

3. Why do the pilgrims think what they do about the Duchess's choice to marry Antonio?

4. Act 3, Scene 3 is a scene with many characters discussing a minor plot. Who interrupts the scene to bring an important message to the Cardinal and Ferdinand about the Duchess?

5. What do the pilgrims think about what the Cardinal does to the Duchess and her family?

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