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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. Does Castile give a time frame for the marriage between Balthazar and Bel-Imperia?
(a) No, he says she will come around in time.
(b) Yes, he says it will happen in a month.
(c) Yes, he says it will happen within the year.
(d) No, he says she will not get married.

2. Which of the following is not a way that the Scene 1 in the play acts?
(a) As a prologue.
(b) As a frame.
(c) As exposition.
(d) As foreshadowing.

3. Who challenged Don Pedro during the battle between Portugal and Spain?
(a) Balthazar.
(b) Andrea.
(c) Hieronimo.
(d) Lorenzo.

4. Why is Andrea told he is brought back from the underworld?
(a) To kill his best friend.
(b) To understand the hatred of humanity.
(c) To see revenge taken on the man who killed him.
(d) To see how to write a play.

5. When the procession in Act 1, Scene 2 passes by the king, to whom does the king demand a reward be given?
(a) All the soldiers.
(b) Horatio and Balthazar.
(c) Lorenzo and Balthazar.
(d) Andrea and Lorenzo.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the ambassador prove to the viceroy that Balthazar is alive?

2. How do the king and his people celebrate their victory in the battle against Portugal?

3. Why is Hieronimo expected at the king's banquet in Act 1, Scene 4?

4. Why does the viceroy command Alexandro's imprisonment?

5. What does the Ghost complain to Revenge that he should be seeing instead of his friend being slain?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is difference between the imagery of heaven in Act 3, Scene 8, and earlier references of the afterlife in the play?

2. Describe Bel-Imperia's soliloquy in Act 3, Scene 9.

3. Who does Pedringano reveal to Lorenzo as an object of Bel-Imperia's love and how does he know that she loves him?

4. How does the viceroy respond to Villuppo's offer to tell the truth about Balthazar and what does Villuppo tell him?

5. Describe the conversation that Bel-Imperia and Hieronimo have regarding avenging Horatio's death.

6. What is Hieronimo's purpose at the king's banquet and how does this play out?

7. Whom does Balthazar request for a companion as prisoner and why?

8. What is Alexandro's fate at the end of Act 3, Scene 1 and what are the viceroy's plans?

9. Describe how Hieronimo kills himself and another that he kills with the same weapon.

10. Three men come in to seek justice from Hieronimo in his position as marshal. Describe the three complaints.

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