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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 does Celimene feel when someone is at the door?
(a) Happy.
(b) Depressed.
(c) Excited.
(d) Anxious.

2. What does the officer's uniform tell the characters?
(a) He is the Marshall's Sergeant-at-Arms.
(b) He is Colonel.
(c) He is a police man.
(d) He is a Lieutenant.

3. Acaste and Clitandre start naming members of what in Act 2, Scene 4?
(a) The court.
(b) The government.
(c) A secret club.
(d) Célimène's suitors.

4. At the beginning of Act Three, Scene One who talks in private?
(a) Basque and Acaste.
(b) Clitandre and Acaste.
(c) Clitandre and Basque.
(d) Clitandre and Celimene.

5. Who tries to make Celimene make a choice between her visitors?
(a) Philinte.
(b) Clitandre.
(c) Eliante.
(d) Alceste.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many lines are in Act 3, Scene 2?

2. Which word best describes Act 2, Scene 5?

3. Why does Celimene re-enter the room?

4. What is the relationship between Alceste and Philiminte?

5. What does Philinte do in Act 1, Scene 3, even though Alceste tells him not to?

Short Essay Questions

1. Act 2, Scene 1, opens with Alceste and Celimene arguing. What is the relationship between Alceste and Celimene?

2. In Act Two, Scene Two, why is Alceste upset with Celimene?

3. What are Celimene's feelings when she hears someone at the door?

4. Why does Arsinoe go to Celimeme's home?

5. Besides the court case, describe what else we learn about Alceste's life in Act 1, Scene 1?

6. When Act 3, Scene 5 ends, what does Arsinoé turn the conversation to?

7. How does Célimène react to Alceste's insistence to choose in Act 2, Scene 4?

8. What is the significance of the man at the door in Act Two, Scene Five?

9. What happens when Alceste gives his honest opinion of Oronte's sonnet?

10. What do we learn is the result of Alceste's court case in Act 5, Scene 1?

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