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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who has just saved Sebastian’s life in Act II Scene I?
(a) Titus
(b) Fabian
(c) Sir Topas
(d) Antonio

3. The Captain tells Viola in Act I Scene II that he last saw her brother clinging to what?
(a) A mast
(b) A ship wheel
(c) A suitcase
(d) A branch

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

5. The Captain tells Viola that he was born how many hoursof travel from the place they stand in Act I Scene II?
(a) 6
(b) 3
(c) 8
(d) 2

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

7. Sir Toby Belch sings of the twelfth day of what month in Act II Scene III?
(a) October
(b) May
(c) December
(d) June

8. How much money does Sir Toby Belch give to the jester to have him sing a song in Act II Scene III?
(a) Twopence
(b) Sixpence
(c) A pox
(d) Tenpence

9. 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 is lost, sir
(d) It’s extrapolated, sir

10. Upon entering, Sir Toby Belch states in Act II Scene III, “Approach, Sir Andrew: not to be abed after midnight is to be” what?
(a) Up betimes
(b) Beside oneself
(c) In revelry
(d) Up late

11. When the jester enters in Act II Scene III Sir Andrew Aguecheek speaks of his discussion of whom “passing the equinoctial of Queubus”?
(a) The cannibals
(b) The Vaspians
(c) The Romans
(d) The French

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

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

14. 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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who invites Orsino to go hunt in Act I Scene I?

2. With whom is Sir Toby Belch speaking in the opening of Act II Scene V?

3. Where does Viola say her brother is in Act I Scene II?

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

5. What does Viola solicit to “untangle this” confusion in Act II Scene II?

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