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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 3, First Scene (p. 340 - 346).

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does person in the answer to question #74 express?
(a) Depression.
(b) The person says nothing.
(c) Amazement.
(d) Anger.

3. What does Segismundo say he ought to do to Clotaldo?
(a) Have him proclaimed Lord Chancellor.
(b) Have him executed.
(c) Have him exiled.
(d) Have him crowned as king.

4. What does Segismundo do to the servant who tries to protect Estrella?
(a) Pays him a gold piece to leave the room.
(b) Slaps his with a sword.
(c) Orders him thrown into the dungeon.
(d) Flings him off the balcony to his death.

5. What did Clotaldo leave with Violante?
(a) A book of verse.
(b) Nothing; he does not know Violante.
(c) A token to identify his son.
(d) A jeweled knife.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of whom is Estrella the daughter?

2. What might the idea of using a dream to convince Segismundo he has never left his cell be considered?

3. What do the mountainous Polish countryside partially obscure?

4. Who believes Clotaldo has played him for a fool?

5. What does Rosaura reply to Clotaldo's question about the item in #26?

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