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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 3, Second Scene (p. 346 - 351).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Basilio decide to do about Segismundo.
(a) Have him executed.
(b) Give him one chance to redeem himself.
(c) Exile him to Russia.
(d) Marry him to Clarnn.

2. What does Segismundo occasionally wonder about throughout the rest of the story?
(a) If his dream could be prophetic.
(b) Whether he really did dream the experience.
(c) If he should try to compensate the family of the servant he killed.
(d) If Rosaura is in love with him.

3. What is Astolfo's suggestion to Estrella?
(a) That she go join a nunnery.
(b) That she is in love with Segismundo.
(c) That she should become his mistress.
(d) That they marry.

4. What in this scene is a possible theme of this work?
(a) That life can be confounded by a dream.
(b) That a father can predict a son's future at the son's birth.
(c) That beautiful women are so irrisitable, rape is acceptable.
(d) That if you are too frustrated, you should just kill someone to solve the problem.

5. Who arrives on the scene?
(a) Clotaldo.
(b) Estrella.
(c) Astrea.
(d) Segismundo.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a possible word to describe the elderly king of Poland's plan about Segismundo.

2. What is Caltaldo's final word on the subject?

3. What is Clotaldo's response to Rosaura naming the person in #46 as the one who has wronged her?

4. What characteristic of Rosaura's might prove a weakness?

5. How did they get Segismundo back to his cell in the tower?

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