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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why are the night watch told to put special watch on Leonato's house?
(a) Hero's wedding is the next day.
(b) He is the governor.
(c) He is housing royalty at the moment.
(d) He suspects a bad plot will go down there that night.

2. How often does Claudio promise to read the written statement declaring Hero's innocence?
(a) Every 5 years.
(b) Every other year.
(c) Bianually.
(d) Yearly.

3. What is Claudio's response when asked if he wants to marry Hero during the wedding ceremony?
(a) Never.
(b) Yes.
(c) No.
(d) Maybe.

4. What is the name of the constable of Messina?
(a) Dogberry.
(b) Dogman.
(c) Dogwood.
(d) Dogerry.

5. Who captured the suspects spoken of by Verges on the morning of Hero's wedding?
(a) Dogberry.
(b) The night watch.
(c) Verges.
(d) Don Pedro.

6. What does Borachio hear has happened to Hero as a result to the plot to dishonor her?
(a) She has been banished.
(b) She has died.
(c) She has been disowned by her father.
(d) She has been rejected by all worthy men in the country.

7. What is Leonato summoned to do just before he leaves to Hero's wedding?
(a) To arrange the dowry for Hero.
(b) To do an interrogation.
(c) To settle a dispute.
(d) To calm his daughter's nerves.

8. What does Hero say she thinks may happen on the morning of her wedding?
(a) Claudio will not accept her.
(b) She will get pregnant.
(c) She will faint.
(d) Disaster will strike.

9. Why does Claudio refuse to fight Leonato at the beginning of Act 5?
(a) He is in too much of a hurry to take time for a dual.
(b) He loves Leonato too much to hurt him.
(c) He will not fight 2 duals in a day.
(d) He will not fight an old man.

10. What happens to Hero when she hears some untrue accusations at her wedding?
(a) She runs away.
(b) She cries.
(c) She faints.
(d) She slaps and spits on Claudio.

11. What has happened to the man who paid Borachio for his part in the plot to dishonor Hero?
(a) He has been challenged to a dual.
(b) He has been arrested.
(c) He has left town.
(d) He is being held at Leonato's house.

12. What do Beatrice and Margaret tease Hero about on the morning of her wedding?
(a) Her youth.
(b) Being sad.
(c) Being nervous.
(d) Her wedding night.

13. What does the constable of Messina tell his night watch to do to the people of Messina who refuse to obey their orders?
(a) Let them go free.
(b) Write down their names.
(c) Ask them where they are going.
(d) Use force to arrest them.

14. Who announces the time when Hero must go to the church on the morning of her wedding?
(a) Friar Frances.
(b) Ursula.
(c) Margaret.
(d) Beatrice.

15. What does Claudio ask Leonato during his wedding ceremony?
(a) If Leonato is trying to fool him.
(b) If Leonato is aware of his daughter's impurity.
(c) If Hero is a virgin.
(d) If he is expected to marry someone so much below himself.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the constable tell the night watch to do with vagrants?

2. Who wakes up Beatrice on the morning of Hero's wedding?

3. What is Leonato so torn about at the beginning of Act 5?

4. What does Beatrice ask of Benedick when they are alone in the church after Hero's wedding?

5. What does Hero chide Margaret for on the morning of her wedding?

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