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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 does Sideway hand out in Act Two: Scene 11 for luck?
(a) Salt.
(b) Leaves.
(c) Sugar.
(d) Flowers.

2. In Act Two: Scene 11, what does the aborigine have on his skin?
(a) Rash.
(b) Red patches.
(c) Scaly sores.
(d) Oozing sores.

3. In Act Two: Scene 9, what does Clark call Mary when he asks her to share his bed?
(a) My love.
(b) Sweetheart.
(c) Mary.
(d) Silvia.

4. What does Phillip say that a slave boy can learn in Act Two: Scene 2?
(a) Astronomy.
(b) Science.
(c) Philosophy.
(d) Mathematics.

5. How is Silvia known when she is a man in The Recruiting Officer?
(a) Martin Williams.
(b) Peter Forceful.
(c) David Vincent.
(d) Jack Wilful.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Campbell make remove his shirt in Act Two: Scene 5?

2. In Act Two: Scene 11, what does Arscott think of when he say his lines?

3. What illness does Ketch say that the aborigines have?

4. What does Wisehammer do after his line "My dear, I'm yours," in Act Two: Scene 7?

5. What does Duckling make at the beginning of Act Two: Scene 8?

Short Essay Questions

1. What can Arscott forget when he is rehearsing in the play?

2. What does Duckling say and do when Brewer is ill?

3. Who is brought to the rehearsal in Act Two: Scene 5, and why is one prisoner still in chains?

4. Why is Arscott not at the rehearsal in Act Two: Scene 5?

5. What happened when Tom Barret was hung?

6. What does Sideway want to do after the play?

7. What does Caesar say about escaping and dying?

8. In Act Two: Scene 5, why does everyone struggle to go on with the rehearsal after Campbell leaves?

9. What do Mary and Ketch say about the "savages" watching the play?

10. What questions does the aborigine have about the colonists?

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