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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Man in Black pour into two wine goblets?
(a) Sugarcane powder.
(b) Iocane powder.
(c) Iodine drops.
(d) Novocaine drops.

2. What does Westley do during the year he spends with the Dread Pirate Roberts?
(a) Writes poetry about love and beauty.
(b) Writes a book about the pirate.
(c) Learns to fence, hand fight, and sail.
(d) Learns to cook and clean.

3. Buttercup doesn't care about her image and doesn't like to what?
(a) Cook.
(b) Wear dresses.
(c) Bathe or comb her hair.
(d) Talk to people.

4. How does the Sicilian want Fezzik to finish off the Man in Black?
(a) By stabbing him.
(b) By choking him.
(c) By throwing a rock at his head.
(d) By throwing him down the cliffs.

5. What happens to Fezzik in the middle of Greenland?
(a) His girlfriend dumps him.
(b) He is attacked by a band of thieves.
(c) The circus fires him.
(d) His best friend abandons him.

6. Whenever Dread Pirate Roberts' ship is passed down to a successor, what happens?
(a) The ship is painted a different color.
(b) The ship is renamed.
(c) The existing crew is brainwashed.
(d) A new crew is brought aboard.

7. When Buttercup pushes the Man in Black down a ravine and says he can die for all she cares, he says what?
(a) As you wish.
(b) What have you done?
(c) You will pay for this.
(d) Is that the best you can do?

8. As a child, the author was what?
(a) A painfully shy child who loved math and science.
(b) A loner who did not excel in sports.
(c) A bubbly child who played the banjo.
(d) An active, social child involved in theater and sports.

9. Who is William Goldman?
(a) The book's fictitious author.
(b) The father of the book's author.
(c) The son of the book's author.
(d) The book's author.

10. The initials R.O.U.S. stand for what?
(a) Rodents of unquestionable savageness.
(b) Reptiles of uncommon strength.
(c) Rodents of unusual size.
(d) Reptiles of unthinkable swiftness.

11. Inigo's father is a master craftsman who makes what?
(a) Saddles.
(b) Swords.
(c) Shields.
(d) Tables.

12. Although the six-fingered man had promised to pay Inigo's father five hundred gold pieces for the custom-made item, in the end he's willing to pay no more than:
(a) Fifty.
(b) A hundred.
(c) One.
(d) Ten.

13. The Prince announces that his wedding to Buttercup will take place on what occasion?
(a) His birthday.
(b) Her birthday.
(c) The 500th anniversary of Florin.
(d) His parents' 60th wedding anniversary.

14. How old is Fezzik when he has his first professional fight?
(a) Sixteen.
(b) Seven.
(c) Nine.
(d) Twenty.

15. Why is Westley leaving for America?
(a) Buttercup has broken his heart.
(b) He was invited to travel to America with the Countess.
(c) He wants to seek his fortune to build a life for himself and Buttercup.
(d) He is tired of being abused and wishes to start over in America.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Humperdinck refuse to marry Princess Noreena?

2. When Buttercup awakens in the bottom of a boat, who is there with her?

3. What do Fezzik's parents die from in Mongolia?

4. What is the purpose of the Zoo of Death?

5. Who or what is Prince Humperdinck's one true love?

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