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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 3, Scene 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following does the viceroy not lament during his aside to his two courtiers?
(a) Spending too much money on the war.
(b) Balthazar being lost to him.
(c) Having not killed enough enemies.
(d) Being defeated.

2. How can the language of the viceroy's soliloquy (really an aside) in Act 1, Scene 3 be described?
(a) Emotionally extravagant.
(b) Subtly depressing.
(c) Politely understated.
(d) Ravingly mad.

3. Who is with Bel-Imperia when Balthazar arrives in the Spanish court?
(a) Lorenzo.
(b) Horatio.
(c) Nobody.
(d) Hieronimo.

4. What does the Ghost complain to Revenge that he should be seeing instead of his friend being slain?
(a) The death of Balthazar.
(b) The exhaltation of Horatio.
(c) The death of Lorenzo.
(d) The happiness of Bel-Imperia.

5. In the Spanish court, who pleads with Horatio to tell her more about the circumstances of Andrea's death, referring poetically to how much she loved him?
(a) Lorenza.
(b) Bel-Imperia.
(c) Alexandria.
(d) Elizabeth.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the viceroy respond to Alexandro's claims about Balthazar?

2. Who accompanies the Ghost who appears in Act 1, Scene 1?

3. Whom does Balthazar request as his companion when he is captured?

4. How does the viceroy react when Alexandro protests his innocence?

5. As Bel-Imperia and Horatio return to the banquet after their private conversation, where does Lorenzo say Horatio's soul is headed soon?

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