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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Lorenzo said to be doing in "boiling lead and the blood of innocents"?
(a) Celebrating.
(b) Succeeding.
(c) Bathing.
(d) Crawling.

2. Lorenzo tells Bel-Imperia that something has angered Castile. What does he say this thing is?
(a) Bel-Imperia's grief at Andrea's death.
(b) Bel-Imperia's failure to love Balthazar.
(c) Lorenzo's lies to Hieronimo.
(d) Lorenzo's capture of Bel-Imperia.

3. What is primarily demonstrated by the presence of the third citizen in this scene?
(a) Friendship between two social classes.
(b) Hieronimo's increasing state of grief and possible insanity.
(c) The theme of kindness to strangers.
(d) Hieronimo's generosity.

4. After her imaginary journey, to what do Isabella's thoughts return?
(a) Her faith in God.
(b) Her desire for death.
(c) Her husband.
(d) The men who killed her son.

5. Why is the Ghost of Andrea upset after Hieronimo agrees to meet Lorenzo?
(a) He is not upset.
(b) He is afraid Hieronimo will kill Lorenzo.
(c) He is afraid the two are joining forces.
(d) He is afraid Lorenzo will kill Hieronimo.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lorenzo give to Pedringano to encourage him to help in killing Serberine?

2. Why does Lorenzo plan to kill Serberine?

3. Why does Hieronimo, in madness, start digging in the ground?

4. What role will Hieronimo play in the play that he wrote?

5. 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?

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