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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Cardinal do to the Duchess and her family?
(a) Officially marry Antonio and the Duchess, and recognize their children as legitimate.
(b) Baptize them
(c) Banish them
(d) Forgive them

2. 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) War from a neighboring country.
(d) Antonio's impending doom.

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

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

5. 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 servants
(b) Her imprisoned husband and children
(c) Her imprisoned servants
(d) Her murdered husband and children.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When Antonio and the Duchess separate at the end of Act 3, Antonio takes with him:

3. How is Julia murdered?

4. The Cardinal's career change is best described as:

5. How does Antonio die?

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