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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Figaro reveal he is most jealous of in terms of the Count?
(a) his advantage of money, wealth, and position.
(b) his advantage of wisdom and age.
(c) his advantage of strength and maturity.
(d) his advantage of looks and charm.

2. Who reads the letter aloud?
(a) the Count.
(b) Figaro.
(c) Bartholo.
(d) the judge.

3. What is the reason the Count gives for thinking he might not take Figaro with him to London?
(a) Figaro is not gentlemen enough.
(b) The Count does not trust Figaro.
(c) The Countess has asked Figaro stay.
(d) Figaro cannot speak English.

4. What is Figaro's explanation to the Count as to why he's taken so long to arrive?
(a) he was eating.
(b) he changed his dirty clothes.
(c) he was looking for Cherubin.
(d) he was talking with Suzanne.

5. Who presents Suzanne with flowers in honor of her wedding?
(a) the Countess and Fanchette.
(b) a group of maidens.
(c) Marceline.
(d) a group of peasant girls.

6. What does Suzanne do when at first she is alone with the Count in the castle's throne room?
(a) Suzanne help the Count with his paperwork.
(b) Suzanne flirts with the Count.
(c) Suzanne sings for the Count.
(d) Suzanne eases the Counts mind.

7. Who is an aside spoken directly to when performed onstage?
(a) the actor himself.
(b) the set.
(c) the opposing character.
(d) the audience.

8. Who does the Countess pretend to be as she waits for the Count?
(a) Figaro.
(b) Marceline.
(c) Suzanne.
(d) Fanchette.

9. Who get's the room ready for the hearing?
(a) Cherubin.
(b) Suzanne.
(c) the Countess.
(d) Figaro.

10. Where did Suzanne get the money to pay for Figaro's debt?
(a) from Dr. Bartholo.
(b) from a bank loan.
(c) from Antonio.
(d) from the Countess.

11. How does everyone react to the news from Marceline and Bartholo?
(a) with shock.
(b) with joy.
(c) with terror.
(d) with fear.

12. Who is the defendant?
(a) the Count.
(b) the Countess.
(c) Marceline.
(d) Figaro.

13. Who performs the wedding ceremony?
(a) a priest.
(b) Brid-Oisin.
(c) the Count.
(d) Bartholo.

14. What did Marceline misinterpret the calling for love for Figaro as?
(a) sex.
(b) friendship.
(c) desire.
(d) marriage.

15. If Figaro does not follow court orders, what will result?
(a) He will marry Marceline.
(b) He will marry Suzanne.
(c) He will marry the Countess.
(d) He will never marry.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the judges agree?

2. What does the Count announce just as Figaro is rejoicing in the judges decision?

3. Who does Figaro see when he first arrives on the castle grounds?

4. Who does Suzanne, pretending to be the Countess, flirt with incessantly and even becomes angry with enough to slap?

5. Which two pivotal characters will be part of the general public that is let into the courtroom?

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