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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Maria’s reply when asked in Act I Scene III, “Wherefore, sweetheart? What’s your metaphor?”
(a) It’s dry, sir
(b) It is lost, sir
(c) It’s extrapolated, sir
(d) It is blighted, sir

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

3. For whom is Olivia observing a period of mourning in Act I?
(a) Her mother
(b) Her sister
(c) Her brother
(d) Her husband

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

5. Sir Toby Belch asks Sir Andrew Aguecheek in Act II Scene III, “Does not our life consist of” what?
(a) The seven saints
(b) The four elements
(c) The five wits
(d) The Ten Commandments

6. Sebastian tells his friend and savior that he is bound for whose court in Act II Scene I?
(a) Sir Topas’s
(b) Fabian’s
(c) Orsino’s
(d) Olivia’s

7. Who asks Sir Toby Belch and Sir Andrew in Act II Scene III, “Is there no respect of place, persons, nor time in you?”
(a) Fabian
(b) Malvolio
(c) Orsino
(d) Olivia

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

9. With whom is Sir Toby Belch speaking in the opening of Act II Scene V?
(a) Orsino
(b) Curio
(c) Olivia
(d) Fabian

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

11. Who invites Orsino to go hunt in Act I Scene I?
(a) Curio
(b) Antonio
(c) Fabian
(d) Valentine

12. Sebastian states in Act II Scene I that his “determinate voyage is mere” what?
(a) Endurance
(b) Excellence
(c) Extravagancy
(d) Extrapolation

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

14. What is the setting for Act I Scene V?
(a) The sea-coast
(b) Olivia’s garden
(c) Elysium
(d) Olivia’s house

15. Orsino describes music as a “sweet sound, that breathes upon a bank of ______” in Act I Scene I?
(a) Lupines
(b) Poppies
(c) Violets
(d) Tulips

Short Answer Questions

1. Who sends Cesario to visit and woo Olivia for him in Act I Scene IV?

2. How does Sir Andrew Aguecheek describe the jester’s singing voice in Act II Scene III?

3. Who claims not to care “for good life” in Act II Scene III?

4. The setting of Act II Scene II is described as being where in the stage directions?

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

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