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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 4, Scenes 4, 5, and 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Valpone lying about to the Venetian businessmen who have befriended him?
(a) His financial status.
(b) His health.
(c) His occupation.
(d) His name.

2. What does Celia beg her husband not to endanger?
(a) Her marriage.
(b) Her health.
(c) Her chastity.
(d) Her beauty.

3. How much of the plot of the play does Jonson spell out for the reader in the opening?
(a) None of it.
(b) All of it.
(c) Less than half of it.
(d) More than half of it.

4. Who shows Voltore into Valpone's room?
(a) Nano.
(b) Androgyno.
(c) Castrone.
(d) Mosca.

5. What does Valpone claim wounded him during his scuffle with Corvino?
(a) Corvino's knife.
(b) Corvino's fist.
(c) The thorns from a nearby rose bush.
(d) His love for Celia.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Valpone feel about doctors?

2. Who is representing Valpone in the court case?

3. What is Valpone pretending to do when Corbaccio enters the room?

4. What sense does Mosca tell Corvino that Valpone has lost?

5. What is the poem about that Nano recites for Valpone?

(see the answer key)

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