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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is Ponza's apartment where he lives?
(a) The center of town.
(b) The castle.
(c) The edge of town.
(d) The next town away.

2. What do they let up and down on ropes at the Ponza's house?
(a) Bayonets.
(b) Flowers.
(c) Crates.
(d) Baskets.

3. When does Ponza come to visit Signora Frola?
(a) Once every three days.
(b) Every evening.
(c) Once a month.
(d) Once a week.

4. Who says, "Oho, you can be sure he's at the bottom of the whole thing. Maybe he has his mother-in-law under lock and key too?"
(a) Agazzi.
(b) Ponza.
(c) Laudisi.
(d) Sirelli.

5. What does Signora Frola say that she and her friends arranged?
(a) Her daughter's humiliation.
(b) The pretense of a second wedding.
(c) Her daughter's death.
(d) Her daughter's divorce.

6. What blinds the mother-in-law while she's talking to her daughter?
(a) Her veil.
(b) The sunlight.
(c) Her beauty.
(d) Her ignorance.

7. What does Signora Frola say to Amalia regarding not having paid a visit?
(a) She laughs at her.
(b) She apologizes.
(c) She says she doesn't like her.
(d) She sneers at her.

8. What does Signora Frola say that she and her daughter are with their arrangement?
(a) Angry.
(b) Overjoyed.
(c) Satisfied.
(d) Miserable.

9. Who insists everyone be seated before the guests arrive?
(a) Ponza.
(b) Amalia.
(c) The Butler.
(d) Agazzi.

10. What does Signora Sirelli refer to Amalia as in Act 1, Scene 2?
(a) The wife of the governor.
(b) The wife of a superior.
(c) The wife of a sailor.
(d) The wife of a hero.

11. Who is Agazzi's daughter?
(a) Amalia.
(b) Signora Frola.
(c) Dina.
(d) Signora Ponza.

12. What does Laudisi say to the others is useless in Act 1, Scene 2?
(a) Their curiosity.
(b) Their hostility.
(c) Their anger.
(d) Their ambilalence.

13. Who says, "You don't mean to say you understand it if a mother--unable to bear being away from the daughter--follows her and then is compelled to live apart from her in a city where after all she's a stranger too?"
(a) Dina.
(b) Agazzi.
(c) Amalia.
(d) Laudisi.

14. Who arrives unexpectedly in Act 1, Scene 4?
(a) Signora Zici.
(b) Signora Frola.
(c) Signora Ponza.
(d) Signora Mancini.

15. What does Laudisi say to do with "what other people see and touch even if it's the opposite of what you see and touch?"
(a) Put down.
(b) Respect.
(c) Disbelieve.
(d) Believe.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which character asks Signora Frola if she climbs all the stairs twice a day in Act 1 Scene 4?

2. Who says, "We come here as to the fountain, two poor women athirst for news?"

3. Who is above Ponza at his office?

4. Who is Ponza's mother-in-law?

5. Who has Agazzi run to in Act 1, Scene 1?

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