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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the constable tell the night watch to do if they must sleep?
(a) Take turns.
(b) Not snore.
(c) Not get their spears stolen.
(d) Find a replacement.

2. Where are the suspects spoken of by Vergeson the morning of Hero's wedding being kept?
(a) The jail.
(b) The courthouse.
(c) The town square of Messina.
(d) The church.

3. What is Leonato so torn about at the beginning of Act 5?
(a) Disowning his daughter or forgiving her.
(b) Believing Hero is innocent and believing the evidence against her.
(c) Challenging Claudio to a dual or allowing him to leave peacefully.
(d) Sending Hero away, or locking her up in his house.

4. What news does Ursula bring Benedick and Beatrice as they are discussing traditional wooing?
(a) Hero has been proven innocent.
(b) Don John has fled the country.
(c) Leonato has challenged Claudio to a duel.
(d) Borachio has been arrested.

5. What does Borachio hear has happened to Hero as a result to the plot to dishonor her?
(a) She has been banished.
(b) She has been rejected by all worthy men in the country.
(c) She has died.
(d) She has been disowned by her father.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Beatrice and Margaret tease Hero about on the morning of her wedding?

2. Who does Leonato send to do what he is summoned for on the morning of Hero's wedding?

3. Who arrives to take Hero to the church?

4. Who does the constable of Messina tell the night watch they are responsible for?

5. What does Hero say she thinks may happen on the morning of her wedding?

Short Essay Questions

1. What question does Dogberry ask Seacoal when choosing him for his night guard?

2. How do Leonato's unexpected visitors feel about what Leonato asks them to do as he leaves to attend his daughter's wedding?

3. What does Hero scold Margaret for on the morning of her wedding?

4. What does Benedick do with the help of Margaret to try and show his love for Beatrice?

5. What does one of the arrested men call Dogberry and Verges after their interrogation is complete?

6. Who steps up to give witness to the scandalous statement that Claudio makes about Hero at his wedding?

7. What happens to the main instigator of the plan that got the two suspects in the jail arrested?

8. What does Hero say she thinks may happen during her wedding?

9. Who or what does Margaret praise on the morning of Hero's wedding?

10. Why does Beatrice say that she and Benedick cannot use the traditional form of wooing?

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