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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How are Recisunda and Clorilene related?
(a) Aunt and niece.
(b) They are sisters.
(c) They are not related.
(d) Cousins.

2. 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) No worse than his father.
(c) Horrid and beastly.
(d) His father would never consider making Segismundo king.

3. 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.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who are meeting together when the scene opens?

2. What does Clotaldo not reveal at this point?

3. What does Basilio want to do?

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

5. What does Basilio decide to do about Segismundo.

Short Essay Questions

1. Do you believe Rosaura should demand justice from the man who essentially rules the Dukedom in which she lives, or should she chalk the situation up to experience and get on with her life, as is later suggested by Caltalfo.

2. What is Basilio's response to hearing about why Rosaura and Clarnn are brought before him in chains?

3. What is Estrella's response to Astolfo's protestations of love and desire for marriage?

4. Why do you think Clotaldo questions Clarnn about Rosaura?

5. Of course, this type of scenario is quite unlikely to occur in one's experience today; however, what do you imagine you would think of finding a man in the state in which Segismundo is and how do you think you would respond?

6. How does Segismundo's state of mind change from wonder to rage?

7. Who has overheard Segismundo and what does this person do upon hearing Segismundo threaten murder?

8. What is Basilio's decision regarding who the heir is to the throne?

9. Because of some "portent" Basilio reads in the stars at his son's birth, he locks up his son, Segismundo, while still a baby and is determine to keep him confined for the rest of Segismundo's life. Is this a wise decision?

10. What is Segismundo doing in this first scene?

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