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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Segusmundo command at the end of this scene?
(a) His dog.
(b) Rosaura to return to Muscovy.
(c) An army.
(d) Clarnn to dual Astolfo for Rosaura's honor.

2. For whom do they mistake Clarnn?
(a) Astolfo.
(b) Segismundo.
(c) Estrella.
(d) Basilio.

3. What is likely to happen given that the story is incomplete and the foreshadowing that has taken place up to this point?
(a) Segismundo will commit suicide.
(b) Segismundo will kill his father.
(c) Segismundo will marry Astrea.
(d) Segismundo will escape from the tower.

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

5. How does Basilio visit Segismundo?
(a) He does not visit Segismundo; he never wants to see him again.
(b) In disguise.
(c) He has Segismundo secretly brought back to the palace and visits him in the Prince's quarters.
(d) He visits him with his most trusted advisers.

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

7. How does Segismundo reply to Clotaldo's lesson?
(a) Segismundo argues that Clotaldo is wrong.
(b) Segismundo kills himself.
(c) Segismundo accepts Clotaldo's counsel.
(d) Segismundo punches Clotaldo in the face.

8. Who is bemoaning his fate?
(a) Clarnn.
(b) Clotaldo.
(c) Basilio.
(d) Segismundo.

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

10. What may be foreshadowed about Segismundo's future behavior in this scene?
(a) That Segismundo will end up killing his father.
(b) That Clarnn will be hanged to silence him.
(c) That Astrea and Segismundo will marry.
(d) That he will act more honorably and humanely.

11. What could be said of Rosaura by her statements at the end of this scene?
(a) That she is so discouraged, she's leaving for Muscovy immediately.
(b) That she realizes that she was wrong to be so concerned with her honor.
(c) That she blames everyone for not helping her.
(d) That she is taking charge of her own destiny.

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

13. Why is Clarnn a security threat to the kingdom?
(a) He is a spy for the king of Great Britian.
(b) He is actually an illegetimate son of Basilio.
(c) He knows the secret of the tower.
(d) He is an accomplished assassin.

14. Where is the setting when this scene opens?
(a) Great Britian.
(b) The palace.
(c) Muscovy.
(d) The prison tower.

15. Where does Astolfo go?
(a) To the site of the military action.
(b) To the tower to intercept and kill Segismundo.
(c) To his room to pack and flee the riots.
(d) To Estrella's room to offer her some romantic poetry.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is ironic about Clotaldo's counsel to Segismundo?

2. What two characters are talking together?

3. What does Basilio confide to Clotaldo?

4. Up to this scene by whom has Segismundo been controlled?

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

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