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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who leads a successful attack against the invaders at the end of the entertainment in Act II, Scene III?
(a) Captain.
(b) Governor.
(c) Blanford.
(d) Oroonoko.

2. Who got rid of Oroonoko's wife?
(a) His sister.
(b) His father.
(c) His brother.
(d) His mother.

3. What does the line "poor Women be thought decaying and unfit/for the Town at One or Two and twenty" in Act I, Scene I mean exactly?
(a) That women, no matter their age are always thought to be 21 or 22 years of age.
(b) That women who look like they are old are actually 21 or 22 years of age.
(c) That women are considered old at 21 or 22 years of age.
(d) That women who are 21 or 22 years of age are never considered old.

4. What does Blanford vow to help Oroonoko do at the beginning of Act II, Scene II?
(a) Beat him.
(b) Send him home.
(c) Free him.
(d) Reunite him with his wife.

5. Whom do we learn is interested in marrying the widow near the end of Act I, Scene I?
(a) Stanmore.
(b) Jack.
(c) Blanford.
(d) Welldon.

6. Who is Imoinda?
(a) Oroonoko's step-mother.
(b) Oroonoko's mother.
(c) Oroonoko's sister.
(d) Oroonoko's wife.

7. What relationship are Lucy and Welldon pretending to have in the first scene of the play?
(a) Friends.
(b) Cousins.
(c) Siblings.
(d) Couple.

8. Who is "The Dog" that Oroonoko refers to at the beginning of Act II, Scene II?
(a) Blanford.
(b) Captain.
(c) Governor.
(d) Stanmore.

9. In Act II, Scene III, who comes to attack the plantations near the end of the entertainment?
(a) Pirates.
(b) Indians.
(c) Slaves.
(d) Planters.

10. Whom do we learn owns several plantations in Act I, Scene I?
(a) Welldon.
(b) Widow Lackitt.
(c) Lucy.
(d) Stanmore.

11. What does the widow tell the captain that she wants?
(a) A male slave.
(b) A husband.
(c) A maid.
(d) A female slave.

12. Who says: "...but I won't lose her so" at the end of Act II, Scene III?
(a) Governor.
(b) Stanmore.
(c) Oroonoko.
(d) Captain.

13. What subject does the widow bring up with Welldon at the beginning of Act II, Scene I?
(a) Marriage to Jack.
(b) Lucy's marriage to her son.
(c) Lucy's marriage to the Captain.
(d) Marriage to him.

14. Where is Lucy and Welldon's original home?
(a) Spain.
(b) America.
(c) Surinam.
(d) England.

15. What is Daniel afraid of, regarding Lucy, near the end of Act II, Scene I?
(a) Being a husband.
(b) Kissing Lucy.
(c) Marrying and sleeping with Lucy.
(d) Providing for Lucy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Oroonoko so elated at the end of Act II, Scene III?

2. Who is Daniel?

3. Who speaks the lines: "Captain, I'm afraid the world won't speak so honourably of this action of yours, as you wou'd have 'em" in Act I, Scene II?

4. Who is the Royal Slave whom Stanmore mentions near the end of Act II, Scene II?

5. Who speaks the line "I am a better Christian, I thank you, than to keep it with a Heathen" in Act I, Scene II?

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