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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. How does Vizzini try to outsmart the Man in Black?
(a) By coming up with a better rhyme.
(b) By distracting him.
(c) By poisoning the cheese.
(d) By speaking in another language.

2. What does Buttercup say when Prince Humperdinck demands that she marry him?
(a) She has no interest in marriage.
(b) She's already married.
(c) She can't marry someone so pompous.
(d) She cannot love another.

3. When Humperdinck demands that Buttercup marry him, he tells her that he doesn't want her love and will give her what?
(a) All the food she could ever want.
(b) Complete privacy.
(c) None in return.
(d) Any horse she wants.

4. What does the Man in Black notice about the Count?
(a) He is in love with Buttercup.
(b) He has one blue eye and one brown eye.
(c) He is more confident than the Prince.
(d) He has six fingers.

5. As the kidnappers start climbing the Cliffs of Insanity, what happens to the boat?
(a) It crashes into the rocks and is destroyed.
(b) It drifts away.
(c) It sinks.
(d) It's captured by pirates.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long does it take Inigo's father to create the special item requested by the six-fingered man?

2. How old is Fezzik when he has his first professional fight?

3. Who is Count Rugen?

4. How old is Inigo when the Sicilian finds him?

5. When Roberts takes Westley aside to explain that he is not the real Dread Pirate Roberts, what does he say about the original Roberts?

Short Essay Questions

1. Is there any love in the courtship between Buttercup and Humperdinck?

2. Does the author's account of his father reading "The Princess Bride" seem credible to him?

3. How does Goldman try to connect with his son, Jason, through "The Princess Bride"?

4. What obstacles do Westley and Buttercup face in the Fire Swamp?

5. Describe Inigo's childhood.

6. As future queen of Florin, how does Buttercup regard the people?

7. Why does Buttercup grow jealous over the way the Countess stared at Westley?

8. What are the dynamics of the relationship between King Lotharon and Queen Bella?

9. Why does Buttercup leave Westley and go with Humperdinck outside the Fire Swamp?

10. Why does the six-fingered man kill Domingo Montoya?

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