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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. Who is the first character we are introduced to in the beginning of the play?
(a) Welldon.
(b) Oroonoko.
(c) Charlotte.
(d) Lucy.

2. What does the line "poor Women be thought decaying and unfit/for the Town at One or Two and twenty" in Act I, Scene I mean exactly?
(a) That women who look like they are old are actually 21 or 22 years of age.
(b) That women are considered old at 21 or 22 years of age.
(c) That women, no matter their age are always thought to be 21 or 22 years of age.
(d) That women who are 21 or 22 years of age are never considered old.

3. Who says: "...but I won't lose her so" at the end of Act II, Scene III?
(a) Oroonoko.
(b) Captain.
(c) Governor.
(d) Stanmore.

4. What does the line "I shou'd like mightily to be call'd Mrs. Welldon" foreshadow in Act I, Scene I?
(a) Lucy's romantic interest in Welldon.
(b) Widow Lackitt's romantic interest in Welldon.
(c) Widow Lackitt's interest in adopting Welldon.
(d) Widow Lackitt's interest in marrying her daughter to Welldon.

5. What does Daniel make his mother promise near the end of Act II, Scene I?
(a) Not to marry Jack.
(b) Not to leave him.
(c) Not to marry Welldon.
(d) Not to marry him off.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who speaks the line "I am a better Christian, I thank you, than to keep it with a Heathen" in Act I, Scene II?

2. What is the true identity of the governor's mistress?

3. Who is the Royal Slave whom Stanmore mentions near the end of Act II, Scene II?

4. What does Welldon say to the widow's first suggestion of a husband for Lucy?

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. Describe the Captain's character in Act I, Scene II.

3. In Act I, Scene I, who is disguised as a man and why?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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