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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) Womanizing.
(b) Sleeping late.
(c) Wasting money.
(d) Drinking to excess.

2. How does Othello kill Desdemona?
(a) He smothers her.
(b) He sets fire to her bedchamber.
(c) He stabs her.
(d) He throws he from a battlement.

3. How is Viola's work with Orsino immediately complicated in Twelfth Night?
(a) She accidentally kills his favorite bird.
(b) She falls in love with him.
(c) She learns of his affair with a distant princess.
(d) She discovers that he knows Sebastian.

4. What is Mariana's connection to Angelo in Measure for Measure?
(a) She is his former betrothed.
(b) She is his wife.
(c) She is his adopted daughter.
(d) She is his sister.

5. What disguise does the Duke maintain while Angelo is in power in Measure for Measure?
(a) Minstrel.
(b) Beggar.
(c) Friar.
(d) Jailer.

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

7. Why is Marina not killed by Dionysa's servant?
(a) She tosses away by a storm.
(b) Pirates kidnap her.
(c) She hides in a chest.
(d) The servant poisons himself.

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

9. On her second visit to Olivia in Twelfth Night, Viola protests that she will never love a what?
(a) Fool.
(b) Woman.
(c) Illyrian.
(d) Scoundrel.

10. How does Antipholus of Syracuse attempt to show his appreciation to the duke at the end of Comedy of Errors?
(a) He offers fealty to Ephesus.
(b) He offers to marry his daughter.
(c) He agrees never to return to Ephesus.
(d) He offers him money.

11. Who does Juliet's father betroth her to?
(a) Tybalt.
(b) Paris.
(c) Benvolio.
(d) Romeo.

12. Whose shrine does Helena visit in All's Well That Ends Well?
(a) St. Joan.
(b) St. Jacques le Grande.
(c) St. Thomas au Beckett.
(d) St. Bernadette.

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

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

15. Why does Pericles go to Ephesus at the end of the story?
(a) He hears that his wife is alive.
(b) He wants to see it before he dies.
(c) His army is needed there.
(d) A dream tells him to.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is in the dishes Timon serves his friends?

2. How does Pericles win the Thaisa's hand in marriage?

3. What is Diana given at the end of All's Well That Ends Well as a reward?

4. Who acts as go-between for Othello's wooing of Desdemona?

5. What request does the ghost of Hamlet's father make?

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