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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 is the prisoner's mother?
(a) Almeda.
(b) Zenocrate.
(c) Calliope.
(d) Zabina.

2. The Sultan is angry because Zenocrate is being kept as Tamburlaine's:
(a) Harem.
(b) Wife.
(c) Concubine.
(d) Love slave.

3. Tamburlaine intends to conquer every territory to what region?
(a) North Pole.
(b) America.
(c) The Atlantic Ocean.
(d) South pole.

4. Mycetes is urged to offer what to the soldiers?
(a) Immortality.
(b) Gold.
(c) Fame.
(d) Silks.

5. The Sultan vows to free which prisoner?
(a) Menaphon.
(b) Mycetes.
(c) Techelles.
(d) Bajazeth.

Short Answer Questions

1. What item does Mycetes decide to hide?

2. What is the name of Bajazeth's wife?

3. To which of these is Tamburlaine not compared?

4. Tamburlaine is urged not to move forward into what country?

5. What is the name of Bajazeth's son?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Tamburlaine mock the kings after they are captured?

2. What items are used by Tamburlaine to prove to Theridimas that he has been well blessed?

3. What causes Calyphas to proclaim his eagerness to kill?

4. What is the purpose of creating a Part Two to the play?

5. What spurs on Callapine's conviction to humiliate and kill Tamburlaine?

6. What is a basso? What is the purpose of sending one to Tamburlaine?

7. Why does Mycetes hide his crown? From whom is he hiding it?

8. What is Callapine's plan if he is successful in escaping from Tamburlaine's jail?

9. How does Tamburlaine greet Almeda? What will be done to acknowledge Almeda's assistance to Callapine?

10. What is the purpose of Tamburlaine's treatment of Bajazeth and Zabina?

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