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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Rosaura and her companion hear?
(a) A baby crying.
(b) The sound of a waterfall.
(c) A wolf's howl.
(d) Someone moaning and calling from nearby.

2. Who does Clotaldo bring before Basilio?
(a) Two thieves caught in Muscovy.
(b) A message from the King of England.
(c) A rusted knight's sword.
(d) Rosaura and Clarnn.

3. What does Rosaura reply to Clotaldo's question about the item in #26?
(a) Refuses to answer him.
(b) Offers it to him in exchange for her safety.
(c) Offers to let him examine it.
(d) Tells him it was her father's.

4. By whom is Rosaura accompanied?
(a) Segismundo.
(b) No one.
(c) Clarnn.
(d) Basila.

5. Who was Clotaldo's long-ago sexual partner?
(a) Elizabeth.
(b) Anne.
(c) Clarnn.
(d) Violante.

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

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

8. Of whom is Astolfo the son?
(a) Clotaldo.
(b) Recisunda.
(c) Clorilene.
(d) Basilio.

9. How does Basilio likely feel about his treatment of Segismundo?
(a) Wise.
(b) Stupid.
(c) Guilty.
(d) Justified.

10. Who are meeting together when the scene opens?
(a) Segismundo and Basilio.
(b) Basilio and Clotaldo.
(c) Clotaldo and Rosaura.
(d) Astolfo and Estrella.

11. How is Rosaura dressed?
(a) In fine silk dresses.
(b) Like a man.
(c) Like a peasant woman.
(d) In flowing white robes.

12. What is likely to be Segismundo's performance as a king?
(a) Quite good because he had a private tutor for many years and knows a lot.
(b) Horrid and beastly.
(c) His father would never consider making Segismundo king.
(d) No worse than his father.

13. How does Clotaldo feel about these revelations?
(a) Saddened.
(b) Surprised.
(c) Excited.
(d) Angry.

14. What does Basilio do to Rosaura and Clarnn?
(a) Releases them.
(b) Embraces them as his cousins.
(c) Sends them to the dungeon.
(d) Has them hanged.

15. What is the current king of Poland re-considering?
(a) Whether he should allow Astolfo to retain his dukedom.
(b) Whether he will allow Segismundo to ascend the throne.
(c) Whether he should abdicate.
(d) If Astolfo should marry.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what is Basilio very skilled?

2. What did Clotaldo leave with Violante?

3. Who is Segismundo's tutor.

4. Who is victorious in the battle for the throne?

5. What has Segismundo done in response to Basilio's announcement?

(see the answer keys)

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