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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What legendary creature described as a two-legged dragon with a rooster's head does Sir Toby Belch mention in Act III Scene IV?
(a) Phoenix
(b) Cockatrice
(c) Gremlin
(d) Vulcan

2. Sir Toby Belch and Fabian convince Sir Andrew Aguecheek to do what in Act III Scene II?
(a) Challenge Orsino to a duel
(b) Challenge Titus to a duel
(c) Marry Viola
(d) Challenge Cesario to a duel

3. What does the jester say his house stands next to in Act III Scene I?
(a) The court
(b) A church
(c) A cemetery
(d) The police station

4. What does Maria claim Malvolio is wearing in Act III Scene II?
(a) Pink stockings
(b) Orange shoes
(c) A purple hat
(d) Yellow stockings

5. When Sir Andrew Aguecheek departs in Act III Scene II, Sir Toby Belch tells him that he and Fabian will call on him where?
(a) Olivia’s house
(b) The cubiculo
(c) Before Olivia’s house
(d) Olivia’s garden

6. Regarding Malvolio, Maria says in Act III Scene II, “he does smile his face into more lines than is in the new map with the augmentation of” what?
(a) The Antarctic
(b) The Himalayas
(c) The Ring of Fire
(d) The Indies

7. What kind of instrument is the jester carrying when he enters with Viola in Act III Scene I?
(a) A trumpet
(b) A lute
(c) A trombone
(d) A tabour

8. What word used by Olivia in Act IV Scene I means to wish evil on; to curse?
(a) Beshrew
(b) Compensate
(c) Dissemble
(d) Mellifluous

9. The stage directions describe the setting of Act IV Scene I as taking place where?
(a) Before Olivia’s house
(b) The Elephant
(c) The sea-coast
(d) Duke Orsino’s Palace

10. What is the setting of Act III Scene I?
(a) Olivia’s garden
(b) The cubiculo
(c) Elysium
(d) The Indies

11. Feste remarks that an old hermit said to a niece of whom, “What that is is” in Act IV Scene II?
(a) Titus
(b) Phoenix
(c) Sir Toby Belch
(d) King Gorboduc

12. Malvolio describes the room he is in as being what in Act IV Scene II?
(a) Painted blue
(b) Dark
(c) Sunny
(d) Padded

13. How many “souls and bodies” does Sir Toby Belch say Sir Andrew Aguecheek “hath divorced” when speaking with Cesario in Act III Scene IV?
(a) 3
(b) 0
(c) 1
(d) 5

14. What is the setting of Act IV Scene III?
(a) Duke Orsino’s Palace
(b) The sea-coast
(c) Olivia’s garden
(d) The cubiculo

15. What does Feste call Malvolio “by the most modest terms” in Act IV Scene II?
(a) Thou honorable saint
(b) Thou mockery of knaves
(c) Thou dishonest Satan
(d) Thou disobedient cull

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Sir Andrew Aguecheek greet Cesario in Act III Scene I?

2. What character is arrested in Act III Scene IV?

3. What word used interjectionally to express distaste, rejection, aversion, etc. does Sir Andrew Aguecheek use in Act III Scene IV?

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

5. Olivia’s last lines in Act IV Scene III are: “Then lead the way, good father; and heavens so shine, that they may fairly note this” what?

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