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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 2, Scene 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a "double entendre"?
(a) A deadly poison that can't be tasted.
(b) A plot twist that the audience knows will happen, while the characters remain oblivious.
(c) A word or phrase that is code for "I love you."
(d) A word or phrase that when spoken, has a clear, simple meaning, but in context is understood as having a sexual meaning as well.

2. 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.

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

4. In teasing his friend as they go to the carnival, Captain Belvile refers to Willmore as what?
(a) The casanova.
(b) The sailor.
(c) The rover.
(d) The captain.

5. Where do Florinda and Belvile make arrangements to meet when they see each other at the carnival?
(a) The next morning at Belvile's house.
(b) The next morning at the garden gate.
(c) That night at her house.
(d) That night at the garden gate.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. As he agrees to the duel, who does Don Antonio believe that the disguised Pedro really is?

3. Who is Ned Blunt infatuated with?

4. Why doesn't Willmore wear his mask to the carnival?

5. The Rover contrasts what two things?

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