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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Viola states in a soliloquy in Act II Scene II, “Fortune forbid my outside have not” what?
(a) Denied her
(b) Charm’d her
(c) Hasten’d her
(d) Chasten’d her

2. Where does Viola say her brother is in Act I Scene II?
(a) Messaline
(b) Prague
(c) Illyria
(d) Elysium

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

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

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

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

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

8. Sebastian states that his father was Sebastian of where in Act II Scene I?
(a) Elysium
(b) Messaline
(c) Prague
(d) The cubiculo

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

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

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

12. 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

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

14. When given money to sing a song for Sir Toby Belch, the jester asks if he would like a love-song or what in Act II Scene III?
(a) A sorrowful song
(b) A song of good life
(c) A song of good fortune
(d) A dancing number

15. 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) 8
(c) 3
(d) 2

Short Answer Questions

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

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. How is Sir Toby Belch related to Olivia in the play?

4. By what name does the court jester refer to Olivia in Act I Scene V?

5. 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?

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