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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which two characters agree that love has the power to transcend sense?
(a) The Infanta and Chimene.
(b) Leonor and Elvire.
(c) The Infanta and Leonor.
(d) Chimene and Leonor.

3. Who does the King ask to escort Chimene home?
(a) Don Alonse.
(b) Don Diegue.
(c) Don Sanche.
(d) Don Arias.

4. In Act 3, Scene 4, who refuses to look at the sword after it is drawn?
(a) Don Rodrigue.
(b) Elvire.
(c) Don Sanche.
(d) Chimene.

5. In Act 2, Scene 6, how does the King plan to teach Don Gomes about respect?
(a) Challenge him to a duel.
(b) Sentence him to death.
(c) Order him to take lessons from his son's tutor.
(d) Imprison him.

6. In Act 3, Scene 3, what does Elvire advise Chimene to do, regarding her desire for vengeance?
(a) Kill Don Sanche.
(b) Leave the pursuit of justice to the King.
(c) Kill Don Rodrigue.
(d) Ask the King to forgive the man who kills Chimene's father.

7. The Infanta imagines what happens to Don Rodrigue, following the duel?
(a) Don Rodrigue's courage leads him to conquer kingdoms.
(b) Don Rodrigue kills himself out of guilt.
(c) Don Rodrigue is the new tutor for the King's son.
(d) Don Rodrigue's defeat causes him to leave the kingdom.

8. Which description best fits Elvire?
(a) Confidante of Chimene.
(b) Confidante of the Infanta.
(c) In love with Don Sanche.
(d) In love with Don Rodrigue.

9. The Infanta encourages a relationship between which two characters?
(a) Don Sanche and Chimene.
(b) Don Rodrigue and Elvire.
(c) Don Sanche and Elvire.
(d) Don Rodrigue and Chimene.

10. Who does the King imprison in the court?
(a) Don Arias.
(b) Don Diegue.
(c) Don Sanche.
(d) Don Rodrigue.

11. In Act 1, Scene 6, who resolves to take revenge in the way his father demands?
(a) Don Rodrigue.
(b) Don Sanche.
(c) Don Gomes.
(d) Don Diegue.

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

13. In Act 3, Scene 1, which characters go into hiding?
(a) Chimene and Elvire.
(b) Elvire, Don Rodrigue, and Don Sanche.
(c) Elvire and Don Sanche.
(d) Elvire and Don Rodrigue.

14. In Act 2, Scene 3. why is Chimene upset?
(a) The man she loves is killed.
(b) Her hopes for happiness are so quickly destroyed.
(c) The man she loves does not love her.
(d) Her father is missing.

15. In Act 2, Scenes 1 and 2, Don Gomes is motivated by which emotion?
(a) Sadness.
(b) Love.
(c) Anger.
(d) Fear.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Act 1, Scene 4, which character speaks in soliloquy, a solo speech heard only by the audience?

2. Chimene's father agrees with her choice of suitor because he possesses which quality?

3. Who does Chimene love?

4. In Act 2, Scene 4, which character bursts into tears and exits, believing the duel begins?

5. In Act 3, Scene 2, after Chimene responds to a character's offer to avenge her father's death, what does that character do?

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