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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What self-destructive habit does Timon of Athens have at the beginning of his story?
(a) Drinking to excess.
(b) Womanizing.
(c) Sleeping late.
(d) Wasting money.

2. At the beginning of Comedy of Errors, what does Aegeon offer for his life?
(a) His story.
(b) A song.
(c) A large gem.
(d) Fine meats.

3. What does Iago suspect Emilia of?
(a) Colluding with Othello.
(b) Taking his money.
(c) Seducing Roderigo.
(d) Giving information to Desdemona.

4. In Timon of Athens, the titular character invites his friends to a what?
(a) War.
(b) Execution.
(c) Wedding.
(d) Feast.

5. What does the fisherman in Comedy of Errors do with Antipholus and Dromio when they arrive in Ephesus?
(a) He abandons them at a church.
(b) He puts them to work on his crew.
(c) He sells them.
(d) He adopts them.

6. At the beginning of Taming of the Shrew, Baptista declares that Bianca shall not wed until what?
(a) Until she is twenty years of age.
(b) Until Katharine weds.
(c) Until the final judgment.
(d) Until she finishes her schooling.

7. How does Othello die?
(a) He falls on his sword.
(b) Iago kills him.
(c) He is executed by the Venetian state.
(d) He perishes in a fire.

8. Why have Romeo and Juliet never met before the ball?
(a) Juliet was never allowed to leave her family's estate.
(b) Their families are feuding.
(c) They are from different towns.
(d) Romeo has been at university.

9. Why is Bertram called back to court at the beginning of All's Well That Ends Well?
(a) He must plead for his cousin's life.
(b) His father has died.
(c) He is betrothed to the duke's daughter.
(d) The nation is at war.

10. Who does Bertrand marry at the end of All's Well That Ends Well?
(a) The widow.
(b) Diana.
(c) No one.
(d) Helena.

11. In Othello, where does Othello's army travel to defeat the Turks?
(a) Jerusalem.
(b) Cyprus.
(c) Castille.
(d) Istanbul.

12. What is Tybalt's connection to Juliet?
(a) He is her son.
(b) They were once lovers.
(c) She is his daughter.
(d) They are cousins.

13. How is Laertes killed at the end of Hamlet?
(a) He drowns in a stream behind the castle.
(b) He is stabbed through a tapestry.
(c) Claudius gives him a poisoned goblet of wine.
(d) Hamlet stabs him with a poisoned rapier.

14. Where does the Duke claim he is going at the beginning of Measure for Measure?
(a) Poland.
(b) Norway.
(c) England.
(d) France.

15. What does Hamlet happen upon when he returns to Elsinore from England?
(a) Ophelia's funeral.
(b) Gertrude's remarriage.
(c) Laerte's reembarking.
(d) Claudius's coronation.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Olivia respond to Viola's entreaties of Orsino's behalf in Twelfth Night?

2. What happens to Timon when he asks his friends for money?

3. How does Thaisa seemingly die in Pericles?

4. Where does Bertram live in Italy?

5. In Measure for Measure the law citizens of Vienna are constantly breaking concerns what?

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