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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Maria tells Sir Toby Belch that his “quaffing” and what will undo him in Act I Scene III?
(a) Smoking
(b) Trickery
(c) Dancing
(d) Drinking

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

6. 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) Malvolio
(c) Fabian
(d) Olivia

7. How is Sir Toby Belch related to Olivia in the play?
(a) He is her cousin
(b) He is her brother
(c) He is her uncle
(d) He is her father

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

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

10. Orsino states in Act I Scene I, “If music be the food of ___, play on…”
(a) Forgetfulness
(b) Faith
(c) Honesty
(d) Love

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

12. 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

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

14. 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 dancer, a coward, and a dead man
(b) Like a jester dancing on a roof
(c) Like a worried man falling through time
(d) Like a drowned man, a fool and a mad man

15. In what country has Viola arrived in Act I Scene II?
(a) Prague
(b) Messaline
(c) Illyria
(d) Elysium

Short Answer Questions

1. Valentine informs Orsino that Olivia will be observing a period of mourning for how many years in Act I?

2. What item does Olivia send with Malvolio to take to Cesario after his exit in Act I?

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

4. Sebastian tells his friend and savior that he is bound for whose court in Act II Scene I?

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

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