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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Who comes in and speaks with Clotaldo?
(a) Volente.
(b) The Duke of Muscovy.
(c) Clarnn.
(d) Rosaura.
2. How does Clotaldo respond to Segismundo?
(a) Says Segismundo will still be king.
(b) Says Segismundo will be executed for murdering the servant.
(c) Says Rosuara is his daughter and Clotaldo wants to duel Segismundo for her honor.
(d) Says Segismundo never left his cell.
3. Who enters the prison tower?
(a) Basilio.
(b) Soldiers.
(c) Astolfo.
(d) Rosuara.
4. How does Segismundo react to the soldiers' offer?
(a) Says he will give his answer in a few days.
(b) Declines it.
(c) Suggest they make the offer to Clarnn.
(d) Accepts it.
5. Who believes Clotaldo has played him for a fool?
(a) Segismundo.
(b) Clarnn.
(c) Basilio.
(d) Astolfo.
6. What characteristic of Rosaura's might prove a weakness?
(a) Her single mindedness.
(b) Her timidity.
(c) Her disloyalty.
(d) Her charisma.
7. What in this scene is a possible theme of this work?
(a) That life can be confounded by a dream.
(b) That beautiful women are so irrisitable, rape is acceptable.
(c) That if you are too frustrated, you should just kill someone to solve the problem.
(d) That a father can predict a son's future at the son's birth.
8. Who is bemoaning his fate?
(a) Clarnn.
(b) Segismundo.
(c) Basilio.
(d) Clotaldo.
9. What does the character in the answer to #110 hear while complaining?
(a) The sound of Astolfo fighting with Duke Muscovy.
(b) The sound of trumpets and drums.
(c) A mockingbird.
(d) Rosuara's voice.
10. What is the dominant tension in this scene?
(a) There is no real tension in this scene.
(b) Between Astolfo and Segismundo.
(c) Between the "old" Segismundo and the "new" one.
(d) Between Clarnn and the soldiers.
11. To whom is Clotaldo ever loyal?
(a) Basilio.
(b) Rosaura.
(c) Astolfo.
(d) Segismundo.
12. What does Segismundo say when he awakes?
(a) He never wakes up; Clotaldo drugged him too deeply and he dies.
(b) Segismundo asks for his father, Basilio.
(c) Segismundo calls for his squire.
(d) Segismundo bemoans his unfortunate fate.
13. How did they get Segismundo back to his cell in the tower?
(a) Servants and Clarnn carried him.
(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) They forced him at swordpoint to walk back.
14. For whom do they mistake Clarnn?
(a) Basilio.
(b) Astolfo.
(c) Segismundo.
(d) Estrella.
15. How does Segismundo act about being in the tower and the palace scene being all a dream?
(a) Angry.
(b) Segismundo is not in the tower.
(c) Happy.
(d) Resigned.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who begs the king to intervene in the riots?
2. How does Clotaldo respond to Rosaura's rantings about Astolfo?
3. Why is Clotaldo torn about helping Rosaura?
4. What is Rosaura's response to Caltaldo's compromise?
5. Who in the play so far has the clearest grasp of what honor really entails?
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