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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What good news does Antonio learn after winning his case against Shylock?
(a) His ships are not lost.
(b) Nerissa accepts his hand in marriage.
(c) His father will not die.
(d) He has been promoted to magistrate.

2. Why does Proteus betray Valentine's love of Silvia to the duke in Two Gentlemen of Verona?
(a) He loves SIlvia too.
(b) He has sworn feelty to the duke.
(c) He intends to help them leave Milan.
(d) He does no know the duke has other plans for Silvia.

3. Who concocts the scheme to marry Beatrice and Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing?
(a) Claudio.
(b) Leonato.
(c) Hero.
(d) Don Pedro.

4. Where do Belarius and her two brothers, Polydore and Cadwal, live?
(a) A ship's hull.
(b) A hovel.
(c) A castle.
(d) A cave.

5. In Much Ado About Nothing, what does Hero do when accused of infidelity?
(a) She storms out.
(b) She slaps Don Pedro.
(c) She admits to it.
(d) She faints.

6. What does Prospero do to Antonio when the two meet at the end of The Tempest?
(a) He forgives him.
(b) He marries him to Miranda.
(c) He kills him.
(d) He imprisons him in a tree.

7. In Cymbeline, why does the King raise Posthumus?
(a) He saved the queen's life.
(b) He is the King's favorite fool.
(c) His father was a royal night.
(d) He brings good luck to the kingdom.

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

9. In Merchant of Venice, how does Shylock make money as a usurer?
(a) He charges interest.
(b) He collects finder's fees.
(c) He runs a textile-works on the side.
(d) He invests in fishing interests.

10. What is the root of Oberon and Titania's feud in A Midsummer Night's Dream?
(a) Titania suspects Oberon of infidelity.
(b) Both want a changeling boy.
(c) Oberon refuses to allow the sun rise.
(d) Titania refuses to let the rain fall.

11. How does Prospero bring his enemies to the island in The Tempest?
(a) A siren's song.
(b) A steady wind.
(c) A transporting spell.
(d) A storm.

12. Where does Camillo offer to marry Perdita and Florizel to avoid Leontes' wrath in The Winter's Tale?
(a) Illyria.
(b) Sicily.
(c) Cyprus.
(d) Bohemia.

13. How does Lamb describe Hero at the beginning of Much Ado About Nothing?
(a) Serious.
(b) Sultry.
(c) Mannish.
(d) Frivolous.

14. Who does Demetrius marry at the end of A Midsummer Night's Dream?
(a) Titania.
(b) Hippolyta.
(c) Helena.
(d) Hermia.

15. In The Winter's Tale, Polixenes is the king of what kingdom?
(a) Bohemia.
(b) Persia.
(c) Atlantis.
(d) Illyria.

Short Answer Questions

1. Lying to his father in Two Gentlemen of Verona, Proteus says his letter from Julia is from whom?

2. What does the wicked queen tell Pisanio the vial of potion she gives him is?

3. What do Orlando and the disguised Rosaline discuss when they meet in Arden?

4. Who has gone to war with Britain in Cymbeline?

5. Why does Bassanio need money at the beginning of Merchant of Venice?

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