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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 relationship are Lucy and Welldon pretending to have in the first scene of the play?
(a) Couple.
(b) Siblings.
(c) Cousins.
(d) Friends.

2. Who got rid of Oroonoko's wife?
(a) His mother.
(b) His sister.
(c) His brother.
(d) His father.

3. Who leads a successful attack against the invaders at the end of the entertainment in Act II, Scene III?
(a) Oroonoko.
(b) Governor.
(c) Captain.
(d) Blanford.

4. Who offers himself to Mrs. Lackitt in Act I, Scene II?
(a) Blanford.
(b) Stanmore.
(c) Captain.
(d) Jack.

5. Who is the Royal Slave whom Stanmore mentions near the end of Act II, Scene II?
(a) King of Angola.
(b) Imoinda.
(c) Clemene.
(d) Oroonoko.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Welldon?

2. What does Oroonoko warn the Captain of?

3. Why does the governor call on Imoinda in Act II, Scene III?

4. Why does Lucy exit in Act I, Scene I?

5. Who says "I am quite tir'd of setting up for a Husband" in Act II, Scene I?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Blanford defend Clemene? What does this show us about him?

2. What does Blanford try to assure Oroonoko of in Act II, Scene II?

3. Why does Oroonoko tell Blanford he is unhappy?

4. In Act II, Scene I how does Welldon put Widow Lackitt off marrying him?

5. Where are the two sisters living and how is this an advantage for them?

6. After the reunion of Oroonoko and Imoinda, what does the governor comment and what does this comment foreshadow?

7. Describe the interaction and relationship between the governor and his mistress at the beginning of Act II, Scene III.

8. What line tells us of Welldon's feelings towards Mrs. Lackitt and in regards to what in Act I, Scene I?

9. Oroonoko says: "Give me a Sword and I'll deserve your trust" in Act II, Scene III. How does he support his statement?

10. Take the following line: "Were not you an ill-natur'd thing to boggle at a Promise? I cou'd break twenty for you" in Act II, Scene I. Who is speaking and to whom? What is it in reference to and what do these words tell us about the speaker?

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