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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. Why does Buttercup toss and turn all night following the visit from the Count and Countess?
(a) She doesn't want her horse to be taken away.
(b) She wonders why women follow the farm boy around.
(c) She doesn't want her parents to be arrested.
(d) She is worried she might have insulted the Count.

2. Why did the author's son not finish reading The Princess Bride?
(a) Too boring.
(b) No interest.
(c) No time.
(d) Too difficult.

3. How old is Inigo when the Sicilian finds him?
(a) Forty-two.
(b) Thirty.
(c) Twenty-six.
(d) Twenty-one.

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

5. Inigo grows up in Central Spain raised by his:
(a) Father.
(b) Mother.
(c) Mother and father.
(d) Older sister.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Humperdinck refuse to marry Princess Noreena?

2. What happens to Westley's ship off the coast of America?

3. Who is Prince Humperdinck?

4. As a child, the author was what?

5. For years, the author heard The Princess Bride being told in the voice of his what?

Short Essay Questions

1. Is there any love in the courtship between Buttercup and Humperdinck?

2. What are the dynamics of the relationship between King Lotharon and Queen Bella?

3. Why does Westley decide to leave Buttercup and sail to America?

4. What is Prince Humperdinck's demeanor as he pursues whoever kidnapped Buttercup?

5. During a fancy dinner, why does the Prince storm out in a huff shouting that he will not marry Princess Noreena, a dinner guest?

6. Why does the six-fingered man kill Domingo Montoya?

7. As future queen of Florin, how does Buttercup regard the people?

8. What does the author say is the outcome of his father reading "The Princess Bride" to him?

9. Whenever the farm boy says "As you wish", what does he really mean?

10. How does the Man in Black outsmart and defeat Vizzini?

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