2. What is Daniel's response when Lucy asks him "Well, how do you like me now?" in Act II, Scene I?
(a) "...how do you think I can go to bed to a Woman I don't know?
(b) "You have bewitch'd me, I think.."
(c) "Why, pray, may I?"
(d) "...my Mother is always shaming one before company."

3. Where is Lucy and Welldon's original home?
(a) Spain.
(b) Surinam.
(c) England.
(d) America.

4. Why is Oroonoko so elated at the end of Act II, Scene III?
(a) He has returned home to Africa.
(b) He finally kills the Captain.
(c) He is finally reunited with Imoinda.
(d) He is finally freed of slavery.

5. To whom is "Why, a lusty young Fellow may happen to tempt you" being said in Act I, Scene I?
(a) Stanmore.
(b) Widow Lackitt.
(c) Welldon.
(d) Lucy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom do we learn is interested in marrying the widow near the end of Act I, Scene I?

2. Why is Lucy's sister dressed as a man?

3. What do Welldon and the widow agree upon in Act II, Scene I?

4. What relationship are Lucy and Welldon pretending to have in the first scene of the play?

5. What does the governor try to do to Imoinda at the beginning of Act II, Scene III?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Act I, Scene I, what does Stanmore offer to Welldon and why?

2. Why does Oroonoko tell Blanford he is unhappy?

3. 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?

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

5. What is an allusion and what allusion is made in Act I, Scene II?

6. Describe Daniel's character.

7. What do we learn about Oroonoko's past in Act II, Scene II?

8. How is Widow Lackitt's interest in Welldon shown (list 5 examples) and what does it foreshadow?

9. What do we understand of the relationship between Jack Stanmore and Widow Lackitt in Act I, Scene II?

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

(see the answer keys)

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