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

2. What do the mountainous Polish countryside partially obscure?
(a) Segismundo's army on the slopes.
(b) A tower.
(c) An army coming through the pass.
(d) A valley of plenty.

3. Where does this scene open?
(a) At Clotaldo's favorite Inn.
(b) Back at the prison tower.
(c) In Moscovy.
(d) A room in the royal palace.

4. What does Segismundo threaten when he hears someone?
(a) To fine the person ten ducats.
(b) To murder any who comes within his grasp.
(c) To ask his father to imprison the person.
(d) To induct the person into his army.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who arrives on the scene?

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

3. What does Segusmundo command at the end of this scene?

4. To whom is Clotaldo ever loyal?

5. What is Astolfo's suggestion to Estrella?

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