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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 happens when the mother-in-law pulls the rope?
(a) Bells ring.
(b) Ponza appears.
(c) The Butler leads her inside.
(d) Sirelli appears.

2. Where is Ponza's apartment where he lives?
(a) The center of town.
(b) The castle.
(c) The edge of town.
(d) The next town away.

3. Where is the village the Ponzas are from?
(a) Bologna.
(b) Roma.
(c) Marsica.
(d) Sicily.

4. What does Signora Sirelli say of Ponza's face?
(a) There's something bad in it.
(b) There's something kind in it.
(c) It is twisted.
(d) It is black.

5. What blinds the mother-in-law while she's talking to her daughter?
(a) Her ignorance.
(b) Her veil.
(c) The sunlight.
(d) Her beauty.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Amalia married to?

2. What is Agazzi's position?

3. What did Amalia say to Ponza at the door in Act 1, Scene 2?

4. Who has Agazzi run to in Act 1, Scene 1?

5. Who appears at the end of Act 1, Scene 1?

Short Essay Questions

1. What about the documents makes them unreliable?

2. What does Laudisi tell the Sirellis regarding their argument with one another?

3. Why does Signora Frola apologize in Act 1, Scene 4? What is the reaction?

4. What is the reaction the townspeople have to Laudisi in Act 1, Scene 2? How do they act on this?

5. How does Signora Frola say she communicates with her daughter? How do they feel about this arrangement?

6. What does Signora Sirelli say that she always is? How does Laudisi respond to her argument?

7. What does Dina say about the piano heard offstage in Act 2, Scene 6?

8. How does Signora Frola respond to Sirelli's comment that it is Ponza who bars her from seeing her daughter in Act 1, Scene 4?

9. What is Signora Frola's reason for not accepted guests in Act 1, Scene 4? What do the townspeople ask her regarding this?

10. What is the outcome of the play? What does Signora Ponza tell the crowd?

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