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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 2, Second Scene (p. 336-340).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Segismundo respond to what Clotaldo tells him?
(a) He is indifferent.
(b) He is delighted.
(c) He is outraged and threatens to kill Clotaldo.
(d) He calls Clotaldo father and hugs him.

2. What is ironic about Clotaldo's counsel to Segismundo?
(a) Clotaldo's behavior has not been that honorable as regards his daughter Rosaura.
(b) Clotaldo is secretly embezzeling money from the royal treasury.
(c) Caltaldo often dreams and in the dreams behaviors in a very cruel way.
(d) There not really anything ironic since Clataldo is above reproach.

3. Segismundo's thinking about his "dream" and the new revelation it gives him about life, might be called what?
(a) Deus ex machina.
(b) The road not taken.
(c) An epiphany.
(d) A headache.

4. What does Basilio want to do?
(a) Go to Great Britian for a state visit.
(b) Abdicate.
(c) Marry again.
(d) Start a war with Muscovy.

5. Upon whom did Clotaldo enact his concoction?
(a) Estrella.
(b) Basilio.
(c) Astolfo.
(d) Segismundo.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Rosaura and her companion hear?

2. How does Basilio likely feel about his treatment of Segismundo?

3. How does Segismundo reply to Clotaldo's lesson?

4. Who asks Segismundo for mercy?

5. What makes it possible for Clotaldo to convince Segismundo that the time in the palace was a dream?

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