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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 2, Scenes 3, 4 and 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Infanta offers to use her authority as Princess to imprison which character?
(a) Chimene.
(b) Don Gomes.
(c) Don Rodrigue.
(d) Don Diegue.

2. Which characters enter first in Act 1, Scene 2?
(a) Chimene and Elvire.
(b) Chimene and Leonor.
(c) The Infanta and Leonor.
(d) The Infanta and Chimene.

3. In Act 2, Scene 1, Don Gomes says he can still live, even if which of the following occurs?
(a) If he is disabled in battle.
(b) If he is denied the tutoring position.
(c) If he is dishonored.
(d) If he is reduced to poverty.

4. In Act 2, Scene 4, the messenger reports that the two characters who leave the palace are doing what?
(a) Whispering.
(b) Dueling
(c) Arguing.
(d) Laughing.

5. Act 1, Scene 2 introduces which thematic element?
(a) The conflict between Chimene and the Infanta.
(b) The conflict between war and peace.
(c) The conflict between love and honor.
(d) The conflict between the social classes.

Short Answer Questions

1. As the play opens, who is considered likely to be offered the position of tutor to the King's son?

2. The King is trying to make peace between which two characters?

3. Don Arias believes whose arrogance gets him into trouble?

4. In Act 2, Scene 2, who challenges another character to a duel?

5. In Act 1, Scenes 4 and 6, which two characters speak in soliloquies?

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