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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Comedy of Errors and Measure For Measure.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What false name does Rosalind choose for her flight into Arden?
(a) Orestes.
(b) Creon.
(c) Ganymede.
(d) Artemis.

2. How does Leontes want Polixenes killed at the beginning of The Winter's Tale?
(a) He wants him thrown from the battlements.
(b) He wants him set ablaze.
(c) He wants him poisoned.
(d) He wants him stabbed.

3. What does Petruchio declare he will do if he does not wed Katharine by Sunday?
(a) Leave Padua forever.
(b) Become a friar.
(c) Pay his competitors a years wages.
(d) Return his wedding garments.

4. Why does Bassanio need money at the beginning of Merchant of Venice?
(a) He wants to start a shipping business.
(b) He wants to buy land in the country.
(c) He wants to marry a wealthy heiress.
(d) He needs to pay off gambling debts.

5. In All's Well That Ends Well, which of the following characters does not return to France immediately after Bertrand's marriage in Italy?
(a) Bertram.
(b) The widow.
(c) Helena.
(d) The King.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Bertram called back to court at the beginning of All's Well That Ends Well?

2. The ghost of which character appears at Macbeth's banquet?

3. What is Isabel supposed to do the day she pleads to Angelo in Measure for Measure?

4. Which character does Nerissa fall in love with in Merchant of Venice?

5. Where does Camillo offer to marry Perdita and Florizel to avoid Leontes' wrath in The Winter's Tale?

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