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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. As Pedro leaves the first scene, what does he tell the maid Callis to do?
(a) Take the night off.
(b) Lock Hellena in her room.
(c) Lock Florinda in her room.
(d) Take Hellena to the carnival.

2. As the play opens, who is about to go to a convent?
(a) Callis.
(b) Valeria.
(c) Hellena.
(d) Florinda.

3. Florinda can't stand which of her possible suitors?
(a) Ned Blunt.
(b) Don Antonio.
(c) Captain Belvile.
(d) Don Vincentio.

4. Willmore is willing to pay any price to be with Angellica because she is_______.
(a) "truly lovely."
(b) "divinely powerful."
(c) "utterly alluring."
(d) "dangerously beautiful."

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why doesn't the playwright want to say anything to welcome the audience?

2. Why does Pedro challenge Don Antonio to a duel outside of Angellica's?

3. Just as Don Pedro appears at the carnival, what does Florinda give Belvile?

4. In teasing his friend as they go to the carnival, Captain Belvile refers to Willmore as what?

5. Willmore tells Angellica that he disapproves of what as he banters with her in Act 2?

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