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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 regret?
(a) Allowing Astolfo to marry Estrella.
(b) Allowing Clotaldo to tutor Segismundo all these years.
(c) Not satisfying Rosaura's honor.
(d) Having Segismundo for a son and letting him out of the prison.

2. What does Clotaldo urge Rosaura to do?
(a) Seek a champion to duel Astolfo for her honor.
(b) Secretly poison Astolfo.
(c) Use her sword and duel Astolfo herself.
(d) Drop the matter of her honor and go home.

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

4. What do Rosaura and Clarnn discover?
(a) An injured lamb.
(b) A waterfall with a crystal-clear pool.
(c) A man who has fallen down a ravine.
(d) A prison tower.

5. What does Segismundo say when he awakes?
(a) Segismundo asks for his father, Basilio.
(b) Segismundo bemoans his unfortunate fate.
(c) He never wakes up; Clotaldo drugged him too deeply and he dies.
(d) Segismundo calls for his squire.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the setting at the opening of this scene?

2. What is likely to happen given that the story is incomplete and the foreshadowing that has taken place up to this point?

3. What does Clotaldo say was all a dream?

4. What do Rosaura and her companion hear?

5. What do the mountainous Polish countryside partially obscure?

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