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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose house does the action of Act 1, Scene 2 take place in front of?
(a) Florio.
(b) The Friar.
(c) Soranzo.
(d) Grimaldi.

2. What is the final line of Act 2, Scene 5?
(a) "Yet time is left you both-"
(b) "She is, like me, and I like her, resolved."
(c) "That one so excellent should give those parts / All to a second death."
(d) "Things being thus, a pair of souls are lost."

3. What name does Annabella call Putana in Act 2, Scene 1?
(a) Nurse.
(b) Woman.
(c) Mother.
(d) Guardian.

4. What is Donado's relation to Bergetto?
(a) Uncle.
(b) Brother.
(c) Family friend.
(d) Father.

5. Who says "To you I have unclasped my burdened soul, /Emptied the storehouse of my thoughts and heart, /Made myself poor of secrets"?
(a) Annabella.
(b) Florio.
(c) Friar.
(d) Giovanni.

6. Who is the last character to speak in Act 2, Scene 2?
(a) Soranzo.
(b) Hippolita.
(c) Annabella.
(d) Vasquez.

7. Why is Hippolita upset in Act 2, Scene 2?
(a) Because of her dead husband.
(b) Over the way she is treated by Soranzo.
(c) Because of Annabella's beauty.
(d) Her father is ill.

8. Who is Annabella referring to when she says "what blessed shape / Of some celestial creature now appears"?
(a) Soranzo.
(b) Giovanni.
(c) Donado.
(d) Grimaldi.

9. What has happened to Bergetto en route to see Annabella in Act 2, Scene 6?
(a) He got in a fight.
(b) He got drunk.
(c) He robbed a man.
(d) He spilled sauce on his clothes while eating.

10. Who says "O ignorance in knowledge!"?
(a) The Friar.
(b) Donado.
(c) Richardetto.
(d) Giovanni.

11. What is special about the horse of Bergetto's story in Act 1, Scene 3?
(a) He speaks.
(b) His head is where his tail is.
(c) He flies.
(d) He has eight legs.

12. What does Giovanni announce to the audience in his monologue in Act 1, Scene 2?
(a) That he is to leave his home forever.
(b) That he has prayed but still loves Annabella.
(c) That he has decided to kill himself.
(d) That he is to kill Annabella.

13. What does Bergetto say that his uncle thinks he is in Act 2, Scene 4?
(a) "Dunce."
(b) "Fool."
(c) "Imbecile."
(d) "Blockhead."

14. What does Richardetto find "mystery in"?
(a) Florio's hospitality.
(b) Hippolita spends much time with Soranzo.
(c) Giovanni's standoffish veneer.
(d) Annabella does not love any of her suitors.

15. "You are past all rules of sense." Who says this in Act 2, Scene 2?
(a) No answer is correct.
(b) Vasquez.
(c) Soranzo.
(d) Hippolita.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who of the following characters is NOT included in Act 1, Scene 3?

2. Why is the Friar so surprised that Giovanni has the feelings he does in Act 1, Scene 1?

3. What does Bergetto do as Donado says goodbye to Florio in Act 2, Scene 6?

4. Which of the following does Donado say he is to Bergetto in Act 2, Scene 4?

5. Who is being referred to in the quote "The man I hate / Worse than confusion-"?

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