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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the name of Olivia’s steward in the play?
(a) Fabian
(b) Titus
(c) Feste
(d) Malvolio

3. Who claims not to care “for good life” in Act II Scene III?
(a) Feste
(b) Sir Topas
(c) Sir Andrew Aguecheek
(d) Benvolio

4. The setting of Act II Scene II is described as being where in the stage directions?
(a) Before Orsino’s palace
(b) Before Baptista’s house
(c) Before Olivia’s house
(d) A street

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. What is the name of Olivia’s lady-in-waiting?
(a) Viola
(b) Madonna
(c) Maria
(d) Katharina

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

15. What is the setting of Act I Scene I?
(a) Orsino’s Palace
(b) Olivia’s garden
(c) Olivia’s house
(d) The sea-coast

Short Answer Questions

1. Viola states in her soliloquy in Act II Scene II, “I am the man: if it be so, as 'tis, Poor lady, she were better love” what?

2. What is the setting of Act II Scene V?

3. Who has just saved Sebastian’s life in Act II Scene I?

4. According to the Captain in Act I Scene II Olivia is the daughter of a count that died how recently?

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

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