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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. Who is Florinda waiting for in the beginning of Act 3, Scene 5?
(a) Pedro to give her money.
(b) Antonio to take her away.
(c) Belvile to take her away.
(d) Belvile to give her a sign.

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

3. What do Lucetta, Sancho, and Phillippo do with Blunt's belongings?
(a) They sell them.
(b) They go through Blunt's clothes and jewelry, taking what's valuable.
(c) They burn them because he has nothing of value.
(d) They take them to use as a disguise to escape.

4. What does Florinda do to test Belvile's love for her as they are standing around with Frederica and Valeria?
(a) While still in disguise, she offers him a lock of her hair as a token of her affection.
(b) She removes her disguise and offers him a ring as a token of her affection.
(c) While still in disguise, she offers him a ring as a token of her affection.
(d) She gives him a complicated quiz.

5. What does Blunt dread the most about his unfortunate incident with Lucetta and her accomplices?
(a) He dreads his friends finding out.
(b) He dreads being hungry and poor.
(c) He dreads having no money.
(d) He dreads losing Lucetta.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the playwright speaking in the prologue as a man?

2. Why do Lucetta, Sancho, and Phillippo feel safe from Blunt's retribution?

3. What does Angellica give to Willmore after Antonio and his men depart her house?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Angellica want to get revenge on Willmore?

2. What is a soliloquy?

3. Why was it so easy for Lucetta to trick Blunt?

4. Why doesn't Florinda want to marry Don Antonio?

5. Why doesn't Angellica let Antonio kill Willmore in Act 5, Part 2?

6. Give two examples of how men show their disregard for women in the first act of The Rover.

7. Why does Florinda rush in and try to stop the duel between Pedro and Belvile?

8. How does Belvile try to persuade Antonio to spare him?

9. Why is Willmore's "mask" extremely precarious in Scenes 3 and 4 of Act 4?

10. The Rover is considered to be what type of play?

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