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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much money does Sir Toby Belch give to the jester to have him sing a song in Act II Scene III?
(a) Tenpence
(b) Sixpence
(c) Twopence
(d) A pox

2. Maria tells Sir Toby Belch that Olivia takes great exceptions to his what in Act I Scene III?
(a) Hasty departure
(b) Religious insincerity
(c) Ill hours
(d) Drunken revelry

3. What does Sir Toby Belch claim Malvolio is when speaking with Maria in Act II Scene III?
(a) A lout
(b) A pox
(c) A Peg-a-Ramsey
(d) A coxcomb

4. Malvolio hands Cesario what object in Act II Scene II?
(a) A letter
(b) A handkerchief
(c) A necklace
(d) A ring

5. Olivia’s lips are compared to those of whom from Roman mythology in Act I Scene IV?
(a) Diana’s
(b) Athena’s
(c) Jove’s
(d) Titus’s

6. Viola refers to her disguise as what in Act II Scene II?
(a) A courtesy
(b) An audacity
(c) A wickedness
(d) A crime

7. What item does Olivia send with Malvolio to take to Cesario after his exit in Act I?
(a) A ring
(b) A handkerchief
(c) A necklace
(d) A letter

8. Olivia’s court jester states in Act I Scene V, “Many a good hanging prevents” what?
(a) A bad engagement
(b) A bad marriage
(c) A bad life
(d) A bad dropping

9. The Captain tells Viola in Act I Scene II, “When my tongue blabs, then let mine eyes” what?
(a) Not see
(b) Fall out
(c) Find beauty
(d) See thine

10. The jester says in Act II Scene III that “Malvolio’s nose is no” what?
(a) Coxcomb
(b) Hound’s
(c) Whipstock
(d) Lout

11. Valentine informs Orsino that Olivia will be observing a period of mourning for how many years in Act I?
(a) 7
(b) 2
(c)
(d)

12. Who sends Cesario to visit and woo Olivia for him in Act I Scene IV?
(a) Sir Andrew Aguecheek
(b) Orsino
(c) Feste
(d) Malvolio

13. What is the setting of Act II Scene V?
(a) The sea-coast
(b) Olivia’s garden
(c) Duke Orsino’s Palace
(d) Before Olivia’s house

14. What is the true identity of Cesario in the play?
(a) Malvolio
(b) Viola
(c) Fabian
(d) Olivia

15. According to the Captain in Act I Scene II Olivia is the daughter of a count that died how recently?
(a) Three months ago
(b) A year ago
(c) Three years ago
(d) Seven months ago

Short Answer Questions

1. Who governs the land where Viola arrives in Act I Scene II, according to the Captain?

2. The Captain compares Viola’s brother to whom “on the dolphin’s back” in Act I Scene II?

3. What is the setting of Act II Scene I?

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

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

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