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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who in the play so far has the clearest grasp of what honor really entails?
(a) Astolfo.
(b) Clotaldo.
(c) Rosaura.
(d) Segismundo.

2. How does Clotaldo respond to Rosaura's rantings about Astolfo?
(a) Pretends he doesn't hear her.
(b) Agrees she has a legitimate grievance.
(c) Tells her that most women get into the same sort of situation and don't feel the need to do something about it.
(d) Tells her to grow up and quit whining.

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

4. How does Clotoldo attempt to compromise with Rosaura?
(a) Tells her that if she doesn't stop talking about this situation, she'll have to return home.
(b) Tells her he'll find her a husband that won't care if she's a virgin.
(c) Tells her he will name her his heir.
(d) Offers her one thousand gold coins.

5. What is Rosaura's response to Caltaldo's compromise?
(a) She says that Caltaldo is a coward.
(b) That she will kill Caltaldo.
(c) That she will seduce Segismundo and have him save her honor.
(d) That she will kill the duke herself.

6. How did they get Segismundo back to his cell in the tower?
(a) They forced him at swordpoint to walk back.
(b) Segismundo is still at the castle and merely dreaming that he is back in his cell.
(c) They put him in the king's carriage.
(d) Servants and Clarnn carried him.

7. What in this scene is a possible theme of this work?
(a) That beautiful women are so irrisitable, rape is acceptable.
(b) That if you are too frustrated, you should just kill someone to solve the problem.
(c) That a father can predict a son's future at the son's birth.
(d) That life can be confounded by a dream.

8. Who else has been thrown into a cell in the tower?
(a) Four servants.
(b) Rosaura.
(c) Astolfo.
(d) Clarnn.

9. What percentage of the people of Poland desire Segismundo as their king?
(a) Almost ninety-five percent.
(b) About ten percent.
(c) Roughly fifty percent.
(d) No one wants the brute for their king.

10. What lesson does Clotaldo offer for what happens in Segismundo's "dream"?
(a) That dreams are reflections of real life.
(b) That even when something is a dream, you should still do the right thing in the dream.
(c) That a dream tells you who you really are.
(d) That Segismundo should not get so drunk that he dreams such nonsense.

11. Who is probably relieved that Segismundo has been returned to the tower in disgrace?
(a) Astrea.
(b) Clarnn.
(c) Rosaura.
(d) Astolfo and Estrella.

12. Who is in the tower drugged?
(a) Astolfo.
(b) Rosaura.
(c) Estrella.
(d) Segismundo.

13. Who arrives on the scene?
(a) Clotaldo.
(b) Astrea.
(c) Estrella.
(d) Segismundo.

14. What does Clotaldo tell the king?
(a) That Segismund is dead.
(b) That Clarnn escaped from the tower.
(c) News of Segismundo's escape and rebellious plans.
(d) That Rosaura is his daughter.

15. What does Basilio confide to Clotaldo?
(a) That his recent escapade was probably all an error.
(b) That Clotaldo is really Basilio's illegitimate son and should be king.
(c) That Basilio is naming Estrella as his successor.
(d) That Basiolio is naming Astolfo as his successor.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who begs the king to intervene in the riots?

2. What is Caltaldo's final word on the subject?

3. Segismundo's thinking about his "dream" and the new revelation it gives him about life, might be called what?

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

5. Who enters the prison tower?

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