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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 3, Scenes 11 and 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Hieronimo urge Isabella to be calm and conceal her grief after Horatio's death?
(a) Because grief is unladylike.
(b) So he can better conduct an investigation.
(c) Because she is annoying him.
(d) Because he wants to pretend that Horatio is alive.

2. Who does the viceroy ask to bring Alexandro to him in Act 3, Scene 1?
(a) The courtier.
(b) Pedringano.
(c) Castile.
(d) Villuppo.

3. Who is Castile?
(a) Bel-Imperia's brother.
(b) Balthazar's father.
(c) Balthazar's brother.
(d) Bel-Imperia's father.

4. How does Pedringano say he found out about Bel-Imperia and Horatio's relationship?
(a) By spying on them in the garden.
(b) By seeing love letters she sent Horatio.
(c) By overhearing the maids talking about it.
(d) By the admission of Bel-Imperia.

5. After seeing Hieronimo digging in the ground, what does the King tell Lorenzo to do?
(a) Kill Hieronimo.
(b) Disappear from the kingdom.
(c) Kill himself.
(d) Give Hieronimo the ransom.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who challenged Don Pedro during the battle between Portugal and Spain?

2. How does the king interpret the the use of warriors in the play presented at his banquet?

3. What is the relationship between Balthazar and Andrea?

4. Who says the way to find Lorenzo is to take the path of a guilty conscience "unto a forest of distrust and fear" and to the "rocky cliffs" of despair and death?

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

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