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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. What effect does tricking Blunt have on Phillippo?
(a) He becomes aroused, and takes Angellica to bed.
(b) He become greedy and looks for other victims.
(c) He becomes angry and beats Lucetta.
(d) He becomes aroused, and takes Lucetta to bed.

2. What is the general attitude of men toward women in the scene at the beginning of the carnival?
(a) Woman are to be taken care of and loved.
(b) Women are meant to be wives and mothers.
(c) Women are sexual objects to be own or traded around.
(d) Women are lovely creatures to be worshipped.

3. How does Pedro react when he sees Willmore, Belvile, and Frederic in his garden?
(a) He punches Willmore in the face.
(b) He draws his sword and fights Willmore.
(c) He calls his guards to attack the men.
(d) He runs after Florinda.

4. What does Willmore reveal in an aside to the audience in Act 2, Scene 2?
(a) He believes Angellica love Antonio.
(b) He is falling in love with Angellica.
(c) He can't stop thinking about Hellena.
(d) He believes Angellica is manipulating him.

5. Why doesn't the playwright want to say anything to welcome the audience?
(a) He says they should all go home.
(b) He says it doesn't matter.
(c) He says the audience didn't pay to get in.
(d) He says the play is bad.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What do Lucetta, Sancho, and Phillippo do with Blunt's belongings?

4. Why does Behn choose to have a male playwright to speak in the Prologue?

5. What does Hellena make Willmore promise after she catches him coming out of Angellica's house?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is ironic about what happened between Blunt and Lucetta?

2. What happens when Blunt shows Belvile the ring his victim offered as proof of her innocence?

3. What is the overall tone of the scenes in Act 3 with Ned Blunt?

4. Why is it significant that The Rover was written by a woman?

5. What does the Epilogue say about the audience?

6. What are the merits of Don Antonio as a husband?

7. What does removing the mask of the hardened business woman reveal about Angellica?

8. How does Florinda walk past Pedro on the street without him recognizing her?

9. What core theme of The Rover is becoming clear as Antonio mistakes his prisoner Belvile for Willmore?

10. What is an "aside"?

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