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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. What news does Ursula bring Benedick and Beatrice as they are discussing traditional wooing?
(a) Leonato has challenged Claudio to a duel.
(b) Borachio has been arrested.
(c) Don John has fled the country.
(d) Hero has been proven innocent.

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

3. What does Benedick discuss with Margaret after challenging Claudio to a duel?
(a) His love for Beatrice.
(b) Hero's innocence.
(c) Music.
(d) Poetry.

4. Whom does the main interrogator of Borachio ask to help him?
(a) The sexton.
(b) Dogberry.
(c) Leonato.
(d) Verges.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dogberry think is a worse crime than the plot to dishonor Hero?

2. Who arrives to take Hero to the church?

3. What does Antonio tell Leonato will relieve his suffering soul?

4. What kept Beatrice awake all night the night before Hero's wedding?

5. How often does Claudio promise to read the written statement declaring Hero's innocence?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to the main instigator of the plan that got the two suspects in the jail arrested?

2. What does Hero scold Margaret for on the morning of her wedding?

3. What does Beatrice tease Hero about just before she heads to the church for her wedding?

4. What does Dogberry tell his men on the night guard to do at the alehouses?

5. What does Claudio think Hero has died of?

6. Who steps up to give witness to the scandalous statement that Claudio makes about Hero at his wedding?

7. What question does Dogberry ask Seacoal when choosing him for his night guard?

8. Who are the two suspects that Dogberry and Verges must interrogate?

9. What does one of the arrested men call Dogberry and Verges after their interrogation is complete?

10. What does Balthasar do to mourn Hero's death?

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