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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 2, Scene 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Florinda intend to do at the carnival?
(a) Kiss her future husband.
(b) Dance all night.
(c) Give a note to Captain Belvile.
(d) Run away.

2. Who is Angellica's servant?
(a) Frederic.
(b) Sancho.
(c) Phillipo.
(d) Moretta.

3. Why is the playwright speaking in the prologue as a man?
(a) The audience is deaf.
(b) The play was written by a man.
(c) The audience prefers a male playwright over a female.
(d) The audience is always just men.

4. The three couples in The Rover will struggle in what way?
(a) To live the way they want instead of what society wants.
(b) To live well beyond their means.
(c) To have children.
(d) To move to America.

5. What is unusual about the three couples at the center of the play?
(a) Two of the couples involve the same woman.
(b) They are children.
(c) They are all circus performers.
(d) Two of the couples involve the same man.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Blunt try to take from Angellica's after the Englishmen chase off Antonio and his men?

2. The Rover was first performed on stage in what year?

3. What are the women's attitudes toward the men in Act 1, Scene 2?

4. Florinda is in love with which of the following characters?

5. At the beginning of Act 2, Scene 1, how does Belvile know that it is not possible for Willmore to approach Angellica yet?

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