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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. Up to this scene by whom has Segismundo been controlled?
(a) Clarnn.
(b) Clotaldo.
(c) Astolfo.
(d) Basilio.
2. What does Clarnn fail to do?
(a) Make the most of the mistake to get free.
(b) Say he is Segismundo.
(c) Protect himself from a sword thrust.
(d) Arise for the King.
3. What is the setting at the opening of this scene?
(a) The royal palace.
(b) An inn near the docks.
(c) The prison tower.
(d) A battleground.
4. How does Segismundo react to the soldiers' offer?
(a) Accepts it.
(b) Says he will give his answer in a few days.
(c) Declines it.
(d) Suggest they make the offer to Clarnn.
5. How does Segismundo reply to Clotaldo's lesson?
(a) Segismundo argues that Clotaldo is wrong.
(b) Segismundo punches Clotaldo in the face.
(c) Segismundo accepts Clotaldo's counsel.
(d) Segismundo kills himself.
Short Answer Questions
1. Where does Segismundo go at the end of this scene?
2. Where is the setting when this scene opens?
3. What does Segismundo do to Clotaldo instead of the action suggested in question #119?
4. What is Rosaura's response to Caltaldo's compromise?
5. What could be said of Rosaura by her statements at the end of this scene?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Clotaldo's waffling about this issue demonstrate the extent of the patriarchal culture in which he lives?
2. What does Segismundo do to Clotaldo?
3. What is happening to Segismundo when this scene opens?
4. What is ironic about the ending of this scene?
5. Does the king deserve Clotaldo's loyalty?
6. When this scene opens what is happening with Clarnn?
7. How does Segismundo respond to the idea that the right thing should be done even if one is dreaming?
8. How do Clotaldo's actions in this scene give the audience a glimpse into a possible positive characteristic of the man?
9. What foreshadows a possible positive ending to what could be a bloody civil war?
10. Perhaps the most logical of all the character's words and actions takes place now as Rosaura rebuts Clotaldo's claiming honor as a reason he cannot harm Astolfo. What is Rosaura's rationale as to why Clotoldo can honorably help her.
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