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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the poem about that Nano recites for Valpone?
(a) Nano's skills.
(b) Valpone's skills.
(c) Androgyno's skills.
(d) Mosca's skills.

2. What does Corbaccio call his son in open court?
(a) A disappointment.
(b) A knave.
(c) A monster.
(d) A hero.

3. Where does Bonario wound Valpone during their scuffle?
(a) In the face.
(b) In the legs.
(c) In the heart.
(d) In the arms.

4. What does Valpone offer to throw on Mosca to calm down Valpone?
(a) Water.
(b) Money.
(c) Gold.
(d) Dirt.

5. Which of the following characters does NOT enter Valpone's home with the intent to fight against his named heir?
(a) Corbaccio.
(b) Peregrine.
(c) Lady Political Would-Be.
(d) Corvino.

6. Which of the following men does NOT join the procession to the courts to press charges against Bonario?
(a) Voltore.
(b) Mosca.
(c) Valpone.
(d) Corbaccio.

7. After hearing the news of the rumors regarding him, in what animal carcass does Sir Politic hide?
(a) A bear.
(b) A tiger.
(c) A zebra.
(d) A sea turtle.

8. How does Mosca feel about Voltore's defense of Valpone in the court room?
(a) He thinks he did a marvelous job.
(b) He thinks he did a mediocre job.
(c) He thinks he did an adequate job.
(d) He thinks he did a poor job.

9. What is Voltore's punishment for misleading the courts?
(a) He is rewarded for standing up to Valpone.
(b) He is executed.
(c) He is given a hefty fine.
(d) He is disbarred.

10. In what room of the house does Mosca encourage Bonario to await his father's arrival to Valpone's?
(a) In the library.
(b) In the gallery.
(c) In the smoking room.
(d) In the study.

11. Which of the following adjectives best describes Valpone as he is waiting for Mosca to return from his meeting with Corbaccio?
(a) Impatient.
(b) Excited.
(c) Apathetic.
(d) Intimidated.

12. Which of the following themes is Lady Would-Be obsessed with?
(a) Vanity.
(b) Honesty.
(c) Lust.
(d) Money.

13. Who runs to Celia's aide when she is threatened to be raped?
(a) Mosca.
(b) Valpone.
(c) Bonario.
(d) Corvino.

14. How does Mosca feel in relation to all of Valpone's other servants?
(a) Mosca is Valpone's only servant.
(b) He feels better than them.
(c) He feels worse than them.
(d) He feels equal to them.

15. To whom does Valpone admit that he has been faking his illness?
(a) Celia.
(b) Mosca.
(c) Corvino.
(d) Bonario.

Short Answer Questions

1. What realization about independence does Mosca make while he is addressing the audience?

2. How does Mosca feel about having to deceive so many people?

3. Which of the following is NOT one of the men that Valpone calls to entertain him while he awaits Mosca's return?

4. Who is called as the main witness against Celia?

5. When Lady Politic finds her husband hiding, where does she announce she is going?

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