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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the asides expose in the characters?
(a) interior thoughts.
(b) motive.
(c) exterior thoughts.
(d) exterior actions.

2. What is the important word that Figaro is arguing should to be changed in the letter?
(a) and, not or.
(b) and only.
(c) or, not and.
(d) not and or.

3. What does Figaro ask his mother to do once the news of his birthright is revealed?
(a) to take him in.
(b) to kiss him.
(c) to love him.
(d) to forgive him.

4. What is the Count's reason for wooing Suzanne in terms of his relationship with the Countess?
(a) a marriage needs lust to sustain it.
(b) a marriage needs spontaneity to sustain it.
(c) a marriage needs love to sustain it.
(d) a marriage needs variety to sustain it.

5. What does Marceline reveal?
(a) she is Figaro's cousin.
(b) she is Figaro's grandmother.
(c) she is Figaro's mother.
(d) she is Figaro's sister.

6. What does the Count announce just as Figaro is rejoicing in the judges decision?
(a) Figaro need not pay.
(b) Figaro will marry Marceline anyway.
(c) Figaro must pay tomorrow.
(d) Figaro must pay today.

7. What do Figaro and Suzanne talk about when they are finally alone together in the room where they are to be married?
(a) how much they love each other.
(b) the Countess' support.
(c) the events of the courtroom.
(d) the Count's temper.

8. What do the judges agree?
(a) the case is thrown out of court.
(b) the debt must be paid.
(c) the case lacks evidence.
(d) the debt is dismissed.

9. What does the Countess do after the Count realizes the Countess was pretending to be Suzanne and also that he's been caught trying to have an affair?
(a) she forgives him.
(b) she humiliates him.
(c) she divorces him.
(d) she slaps him.

10. What does Figaro show Bartholo to prove his point?
(a) his diplomas.
(b) his birthmark.
(c) his birth certificate.
(d) his documents.

11. What is the Count planning to do just as Suzanne believes the marriage should go ahead as planned?
(a) double cross Marceline and Bazile.
(b) feign interest in the wedding.
(c) go along with the wedding.
(d) double cross Suzanne and Figaro.

12. Who does the Count think Figaro is flirting with outside of the pavilion?
(a) the Countess.
(b) Fanchette.
(c) Suzanne.
(d) Marceline.

13. What does Figaro say to Suzanne about the meeting in the garden?
(a) it is still on.
(b) the Count will not show.
(c) it is called off.
(d) it is postponed.

14. What message does Fanchette give to Figaro regarding the Count and Suzanne?
(a) the meeting in the garden is still on.
(b) the meeting in the garden has taken place.
(c) the meeting in the garden is off.
(d) the meeting in the garden is postponed.

15. What is heard in the background as the Count is in utter disbelief at Figaro's manipulations?
(a) wedding music.
(b) the bustle of the crowd gathering.
(c) the Countess' voice.
(d) birdsong.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is left alone in the courtroom?

2. What is Figaro's explanation to the Count as to why he's taken so long to arrive?

3. What does Suzanne do when at first she is alone with the Count in the castle's throne room?

4. What does Fanchette promise the Count is he lets Cherubin go free?

5. What does Bartholo scoff at the idea of Figaro being?

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