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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Viola states in Act II Scene II, “As I am man, My state is desperate for” what?
(a) Justice
(b) A wife
(c) An honorable death
(d) My master’s love

2. By what name does the court jester refer to Olivia in Act I Scene V?
(a) Beatrice
(b) Katharina
(c) Madonna
(d) Diana

3. What is the setting of Act II Scene I?
(a) The sea-coast
(b) The cubiculo
(c) Before Olivia’s house
(d) The Elephant

4. Viola states in a soliloquy in Act II Scene II, “Fortune forbid my outside have not” what?
(a) Denied her
(b) Charm’d her
(c) Hasten’d her
(d) Chasten’d her

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

6. Where does Act I Scene IV take place?
(a) The sea-coast
(b) Olivia’s garden
(c) Duke Orsino’s Palace
(d) Olivia’s house

7. What French term does Sir Andrew Aguecheek not understand when speaking with Sir Toby Belch in Act I Scene III?
(a) Caterwauling
(b) Pour quoi
(c) Valor
(d) Diluculo surgere

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

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

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

11. What does Viola solicit to “untangle this” confusion in Act II Scene II?
(a) Time
(b) Fate
(c) God
(d) Love

12. What “foolish knight” does Maria say Sir Toby Belch brought to woo Olivia in Act I Scene III?
(a) Sir Andrew Aguecheek
(b) Sir Topas
(c) Malvolio
(d) Titus

13. By what name does Sir Toby Belch refer to Maria when bidding her goodnight in Act II Scene III?
(a) Pythagoras
(b) Diana
(c) Penthesilea
(d) Venus

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

15. What does Sebastian believe has happened to his sister in Act II Scene I?
(a) She was stabbed
(b) She married
(c) She was hanged
(d) She drowned

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the setting of Act II Scene IV?

2. What word does Maria use in Act II Scene III that means to howl or screech like cats?

3. What is the true identity of Cesario in the play?

4. What is the setting of Act II Scene III?

5. In what country has Viola arrived in Act I Scene II?

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