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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In The Winter's Tale, what does Leontes want his counselors to ask the oracle at Delphos?
(a) If Polixenes is dead.
(b) If his kingdom is safe.
(c) If his wife is faithful.
(d) If his son will be king.

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

3. In what city does A Midsummer Night's Dream begin?
(a) Paris.
(b) Athens.
(c) Venice.
(d) London.

4. In what state does Cordelia's army find the mad Lear?
(a) Asleep int he Dover castle.
(b) Wandering a field.
(c) Raving in a ravine.
(d) Swimmin in a filthy brook.

5. In Merchant of Venice, why can Antonio not pay his bond to Shylock?
(a) His ships sink.
(b) His lands are seized by the state.
(c) His father recovers his health.
(d) His crops whither.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is not a prophecy the witches make at the beginning of Macbeth?

2. When does Sycorax die in The Tempest?

3. Which of the following characters does not die at the end of King Lear?

4. What is Edmund's brother's name?

5. Who constantly torments Caliban at the beginning of The Tempest?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who does Valentine offer Silvia to Proteus at the end of Two Gentlemen of Verona?

2. Why is Cordelia banished at the beginning of King Lear?

3. How is Paulita saved from death at a young age in The Winter's Tale?

4. Why does Claudio think Hero is cheating on him in Much Ado About Nothing?

5. How does Oliver try to kill Orlando in As You Like It?

6. What is the rift in the spirit room at the beginning of A Midsummer Night's Dream?

7. At the end of As You Like It, what happy news arrives concerning the banished duke?

8. How are Orlando and Oliver reconciled in As You Like It?

9. How does Valentine becomes the leader of bandits in Two Gentlemen of Verona?

10. How does Leontes respond to his new daughter at the beginning of The Winter's Tale?

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