View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Pedro react when he sees Willmore, Belvile, and Frederic in his garden?

2. What do the Englishmen decide to do to pass the time and bolster their spirits after all the women depart from the street in front of Angellica's?

3. As Blunt walks away from the carnival to follow Lucetta, what do his friends comment about him?

4. What lie does Willmore tell Hellena when she approaches from the shadows in the first scene of Act 3?

5. At the beginning of the play, who has been banished, penniless from his homeland?

Short Essay Questions

1. Does Hellena seem well suited to become a nun? Why or why not?

2. What happens when Willmore tries to make a joke to Belvile about his attack on Florinda?

3. What is the reason, other than the carnival, that Frederic and Blunt have come to town?

4. What is a striking difference between how Pedro expects Hellena and Florinda to behave and how they actually act?

5. Is Willmore being truthful with Angellica at the end of Act 2, Scene 2?

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

7. What is Angellica "masking" as she meets Willmore for the first time?

8. Why does Blunt hate all women in general?

9. Why does it seem that sometimes masks and disguises are necessary to the characters?

10. What is a farce?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe in detail three particular events in Act 1, Scene 2 that foreshadowed what would happen to Ned Blunt later in the play.

Essay Topic 2

Give three examples of "double entendre" in The Rover. What purpose do they serve to the plot of the play?

Essay Topic 3

How do the scenes in which Blunt is tricked by Lucetta function to lay the groundwork for his important role in the play's climax? What, specifically, does he do in the last scene of Act 4 that plays such a pivotal role?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 588 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample