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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Orsino
(b) Fabian
(c) Olivia
(d) Malvolio

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) Semper fidelis
(b) Antonio scribet
(c) Diluculo surgere
(d) Te amo

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

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

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

6. How does Sir Andrew Aguecheek describe the jester’s singing voice in Act II Scene III?
(a) Hyperbolical
(b) Mellifluous
(c) Caterwauling
(d) Consecrated

7. Sir Toby Belch claims that the “foolish knight” he brought to woo Olivia earns how much per year in Act I Scene III?
(a) 1,500 ducats
(b) 12,000 ducats
(c) 3,000 ducats
(d) 7,000 ducats

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

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

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

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

12. Sir Toby Belch claims that Olivia is what when speaking with Maria in Act II Scene III?
(a) A Cataian
(b) A clodpole
(c) A Roman
(d) A Vespian

13. Who says in Act II Scene IV, “I am all the daughters of my father's house, And all the brothers too”?
(a) Sebastian
(b) Viola
(c) Sir Topas
(d) Fabian

14. What dog breed does Sir Toby Belch tell Sir Andrew that Maria is in Act II Scene III?
(a) A Beagle
(b) A Burmese Mountain Dog
(c) A German Shepherd
(d) A Great Dane

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The Captain tells Viola in Act I Scene II, “When my tongue blabs, then let mine eyes” what?

2. What is the court jester’s response when Olivia asks him in Act I Scene V, “What’s a drunken man like, fool?”

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

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

5. Malvolio hands Cesario what object in Act II Scene II?

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