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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. Who does Orsino marry at the end of Twelfth Night?
(a) No one.
(b) Sebastian.
(c) Olivia.
(d) Viola.

2. What does Petruchio declare he will do if he does not wed Katharine by Sunday?
(a) Pay his competitors a years wages.
(b) Become a friar.
(c) Leave Padua forever.
(d) Return his wedding garments.

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

4. What is Sebastian doing the last time Voila sees him in the shipwreck in Twelfth Night?
(a) Swimming to shore.
(b) Clinging to the mast.
(c) Sinking below the waves.
(d) Huddling in a lifeboat.

5. How does Thaisa seemingly die in Pericles?
(a) She falls from a tower.
(b) She is murdered by Antiochus's assassins.
(c) She drowns.
(d) She dies in childbirth.

Short Answer Questions

1. What catastrophic event befalls Aegeon's return home in his story at the beginning of Comedy of Errors?

2. What is Isabel supposed to do the day she pleads to Angelo in Measure for Measure?

3. Why does Pericles have to flee Greece at the beginning of the story?

4. What does the King of France suspect Bertrand of in All's Well That Ends Well?

5. Whose death is Olivia mourning at the beginning of Twelfth Night?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the state of affairs between Ephesus and Syracuse in Comedy of Errors?

2. How does Timon of Athens lose faith in mankind?

3. Why can Orsino not woo Olivia successfully in Twelfth Night?

4. How does Pericles end up marrying Thaisa?

5. Describe Romeo and Juliet's meeting and courtship.

6. Why does Hamlet kill Polonius?

7. How does Pericles lose Thaisa at sea?

8. Describe Iago's revenge against Othello.

9. What are the marriages that end Measure for Measure?

10. How does Helena trick Bertram out of his ring in All's Well That Ends Well?

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