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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Madame Desmortes encourage to dance in Act 1, Scene 2?
(a) Hugo and Isabelle.
(b) Diana and Hugo.
(c) Lady India and Hugo.
(d) Frederic and Diana.

2. Who enters Act 1, Scene 2 with a guest list?
(a) Capulet.
(b) Diana.
(c) Joshua.
(d) Madame Desmortes.

3. What will be Isabelle's reward for doing as Hugo requests regarding the event at the chateau?
(a) She will be paid and she can keep her ball gown.
(b) She will be adopted by Madame Desmortes.
(c) She will marry Hugo.
(d) She will obtain a role in an upcoming ballet.

4. What does Capulet pretend to forget so she can return to the conservatory?
(a) Her gloves.
(b) Her boa.
(c) The guest list.
(d) Noodles.

5. In whose honor is the ball being given?
(a) Lady India.
(b) Diana.
(c) Isabelle.
(d) Madame Desmortes.

6. After Frederic and Diana exit the stage in the first scene, who enters?
(a) Lady India and Patrice.
(b) Madame Desmortes and Joshua.
(c) Lady India and Joshua.
(d) Patrice and Hugo.

7. What does Isabelle's mother say she told Capulet?
(a) That Isabelle loves Romainville.
(b) That Hugo loves Isabelle.
(c) That Isabelle loves Frederic.
(d) That Frederic loves Isabelle.

8. What event is about to take place at the chateau?
(a) A funeral.
(b) A ballet.
(c) A ball.
(d) A wedding.

9. What does Hugo want the guests at the ball to think?
(a) That he is in love with Lady India.
(b) That he is already married.
(c) That he is in love with two women.
(d) That he is in love with Isabelle.

10. What is unusual about one character's diet?
(a) The diet consists of nothing but noodles, with no butter or salt.
(b) The diet consists of noodles with butter but no salt.
(c) The diet consists of noodles with salt but no butter.
(d) The diet consists of noodles smothered in butter and salt.

11. What is a characters' sarcastic complaint when she is waiting to see the guest list?
(a) She might as well have asked to have the lake restocked with carp.
(b) She might as well have asked to have the chateau rebuilt.
(c) She might as well have asked to have snow in summer.
(d) She might as well have asked to have the rhododendrons replaced.

12. Whose joke upsets Frederic?
(a) Hugo's.
(b) Madame Desmortes'.
(c) Diana's.
(d) Joshua's.

13. What plan does Hugo reveal to Isabelle in Act 1, Scene 2?
(a) He wants Lady India to fall in love with Frederic.
(b) He wants Isabelle to fall in love with Frederic.
(c) He wants Frederic to fall in love with Isabelle.
(d) He wants Frederic to fall in love with Lady India.

14. Which character is well known for pranks?
(a) Joshua.
(b) Frederic.
(c) Hugo.
(d) Messerschmann.

15. Romainville interrupts Hugo and Isabelle with what news?
(a) Capulet and Messerschmann are old childhood friends.
(b) A guest at the ball will eat only noodles.
(c) Isabelle's mother and Madame Desmortes are old childhood friends.
(d) Isabelle's mother and Capulet are old childhood friends.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the gardener intend to do with the shrubbery?

2. Why is Hugo irritated when Isabelle's mother appears after the etiquette lessons?

3. Who examines the guest list in Act 1, Scene 2?

4. Who is in a wheelchair?

5. Who do Hugo and Romainville discuss in the first scene?

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