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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What non-medial condition kills Mamillius in The Winter's Tale?
(a) Fear.
(b) Jealousy.
(c) Grief.
(d) Joy.

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

3. What role does Ariel take on the island in The Tempest?
(a) Caliban's accomplice.
(b) Prospero's assistant.
(c) Miranda's ward.
(d) Sycorax's suitor.

4. What name does Kent take to follow Lear in disguise?
(a) Roderigo.
(b) Edwin.
(c) Caius.
(d) Crassus.

5. What does Portia disguise herself as at the end of Merchant of Venice?
(a) A queen.
(b) A lawyer.
(c) A knight.
(d) An accountant.

6. At his castles, what appears before Macbeth directing him to Duncan's chamber?
(a) A witch.
(b) A dagger.
(c) A stream of blood.
(d) A black horse.

7. What does the juice of the purple flower do to people in A Midsummer Night's Dream?
(a) It makes them fall in love.
(b) It makes them fall out of love.
(c) It makes them fall asleep.
(d) It makes them wake up.

8. Why does Lear wander into a storm at night?
(a) He has not bathed in days.
(b) He does not want to live with his daughters.
(c) He wants to gather an army together.
(d) He is looking for Cordelia.

9. Who tips off Orlando that his life is in danger in As You Like It?
(a) Celia.
(b) Oliver.
(c) The duke.
(d) Adam.

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

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

12. What news does the wicked Queen tell the King at the beginning of Cymbeline?
(a) Imogen and Posthumus are married.
(b) Posthumus attempted to ravish her.
(c) There is a poisoner in the court.
(d) Imogen is not his true daughter.

13. When does Sycorax die in The Tempest?
(a) She didn't die.
(b) Days after Prospero and Mirand arrive at the island.
(c) The moment Prospero and Mirand arrive at the island.
(d) Before Prospero and Mirand arrive at the island.

14. At the beginning of Macbeth, the title character is than of what township?
(a) Cawdor.
(b) Cumberland.
(c) Glamis.
(d) Fife.

15. Which of the following is not a prophecy the witches make at the beginning of Macbeth?
(a) Banquo's children will be kings.
(b) Macbeth will be king.
(c) Banquo will be killed.
(d) Macbeth will be the thane of Cawdor.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Valentine meet Silvia in the wood in Two Gentlemen of Verona?

2. How does Prospero bring his enemies to the island in The Tempest?

3. At the end of Much Ado About Nothing, Hero pretends to be her own what?

4. Why does the French duke of As You Like It move to Arden?

5. Who is the second human Miranda meets in The Tempest?

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