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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act II.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the setting of Act I Scene I?
(a) Olivia’s house
(b) Orsino’s Palace
(c) The sea-coast
(d) Olivia’s garden

2. What first two words of a Latin maxim meaning “to get up at dawn is very helpful” does Sir Toby Belch say in Act II Scene III?
(a) Antonio scribet
(b) Te amo
(c) Semper fidelis
(d) Diluculo surgere

3. What is the court jester’s response when Olivia asks him in Act I Scene V, “What’s a drunken man like, fool?”
(a) Like a drowned man, a fool and a mad man
(b) Like a dancer, a coward, and a dead man
(c) Like a worried man falling through time
(d) Like a jester dancing on a roof

4. What does the jester say “are no bottle-ale houses” in Act II Scene III?
(a) The Myrmidons
(b) The master’s homes
(c) The Vaspians
(d) The Sirens

5. Upon entering, Sir Toby Belch states in Act II Scene III, “Approach, Sir Andrew: not to be abed after midnight is to be” what?
(a) Up late
(b) Beside oneself
(c) Up betimes
(d) In revelry

Short Answer Questions

1. By what name does Sir Toby Belch refer to Maria when bidding her goodnight in Act II Scene III?

2. Sir Toby Belch sings of the twelfth day of what month in Act II Scene III?

3. What is Maria’s reply when asked in Act I Scene III, “Wherefore, sweetheart? What’s your metaphor?”

4. Orsino states in Act I Scene I, “If music be the food of ___, play on…”

5. Sir Toby Belch asks Sir Andrew Aguecheek in Act II Scene III, “Does not our life consist of” what?

(see the answer key)

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