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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. The Prince tells the Count to place the Man in Black where?
(a) Cave of Despair.
(b) Zoo of Death.
(c) Chamber of Darkness.
(d) Throne of Delusions.

2. What does the Man in Black pour into two wine goblets?
(a) Iodine drops.
(b) Iocane powder.
(c) Sugarcane powder.
(d) Novocaine drops.

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

4. Buttercup doesn't care about her image and doesn't like to what?
(a) Bathe or comb her hair.
(b) Talk to people.
(c) Wear dresses.
(d) Cook.

5. How does young Buttercup like spending most of her time?
(a) Swimming in the river.
(b) Riding her horse.
(c) Sewing with her mother.
(d) Farming with her father.

Short Answer Questions

1. Discouraged because he can't find his father's murderer, Inigo starts to do what?

2. What does Westley do during the year he spends with the Dread Pirate Roberts?

3. Whenever Dread Pirate Roberts' ship is passed down to a successor, what happens?

4. When the author was a child in 1941, what happened to him?

5. Although the six-fingered man had promised to pay Inigo's father five hundred gold pieces for the custom-made item, in the end he's willing to pay no more than:

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Fezzik feel when he sees the Man in Black approaching after his fight with Inigo?

2. Why does Westley decide to leave Buttercup and sail to America?

3. Describe Inigo's childhood.

4. Who is the Dread Pirate Roberts?

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

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

7. How do Vizzini, Fezzik, and Inigo come to kidnap Buttercup?

8. How does the Man in Black outsmart and defeat Vizzini?

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

10. What does the author say is the outcome of his father reading "The Princess Bride" to him?

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