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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 3, Scene 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do Florinda and Belvile make arrangements to meet when they see each other at the carnival?
(a) The next morning at Belvile's house.
(b) That night at her house.
(c) The next morning at the garden gate.
(d) That night at the garden gate.

2. Angellica allows which man to come inside her house without charge, something she rarely does?
(a) Blunt.
(b) Antonio.
(c) Willmore.
(d) Pedro.

3. What is the typical role of a woman at the time the play was written?
(a) To sell their bodies.
(b) To be seen and not heard.
(c) To travel in singing troupes.
(d) To run the local government only.

4. What does Hellena decide to do to Willmore to make him pay for his attention of another woman?
(a) She is going to buy him a present for their wedding day.
(b) She is going to introduce him to her brother.
(c) She is going to write him a love letter.
(d) She is going to play a trick on him.

5. Which suitor does Florinda's brother Pedro hope she will marry?
(a) Don Vicentio.
(b) Ned Blunt.
(c) Captain Belvile.
(d) Don Antonio.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was unusual about the author of this play?

2. The three couples in The Rover will struggle in what way?

3. Why is the playwright speaking in the prologue as a man?

4. Why does Behn choose to have a male playwright to speak in the Prologue?

5. As they are flirting with each other out on the street, how does Florinda reveal her true identity to Belvile?

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