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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1, Scene 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the mother offer to give her son's fiancée?
(a) A dress.
(b) Brass earrings.
(c) A necklace.
(d) A diamond ring.

2. Why does the neighbor tell the mother that she dislikes the bride's mother?
(a) Because she was mean.
(b) Because she didn't love her children.
(c) Because she had no love for her husband.
(d) Because she wouldn't speak to anyone.

3. Who tells Leonardo's wife that he has been riding his horse to the edge of the plain?
(a) The young girl.
(b) The blacksmith.
(c) The woman who gathers capers.
(d) The bride.

4. What does Leonardo's wife ask that he buy for their baby?
(a) A dress.
(b) A cap with ribbons.
(c) Food.
(d) A cradle.

5. Who sees the horse "in a lather"?
(a) The mother-in-law.
(b) The bride.
(c) The girl.
(d) Leonardo's wife.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of the play?

2. When describing a man coming home dead, what item does the mother mention is placed across his breast?

3. Who says, "Whenever I leave you I feel a great emptiness and a kind of lump in my throat"?

4. What color is the room where the mother and son argue in Scene 1?

5. Who says, "I'm happy. When I say 'yes', I say it because I mean it"?

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