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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Rover contrasts what two things?
(a) What the characters say versus how they actually feel.
(b) How the characters act versus others' acting ability.
(c) The Montagues and the Capulets
(d) Good versus evil.

2. What in particular do Belvile, Willmore, and the others find objectionable about Antonio?
(a) His stinginess.
(b) His lack of cooperation.
(c) His generosity.
(d) His bad temper.

3. What effect does tricking Blunt have on Phillippo?
(a) He becomes angry and beats Lucetta.
(b) He become greedy and looks for other victims.
(c) He becomes aroused, and takes Lucetta to bed.
(d) He becomes aroused, and takes Angellica to bed.

4. What is the general attitude of men toward women in the scene at the beginning of the carnival?
(a) Woman are to be taken care of and loved.
(b) Women are meant to be wives and mothers.
(c) Women are sexual objects to be own or traded around.
(d) Women are lovely creatures to be worshipped.

5. Willmore is willing to pay any price to be with Angellica because she is_______.
(a) "truly lovely."
(b) "utterly alluring."
(c) "dangerously beautiful."
(d) "divinely powerful."

6. What does Blunt tell Lucetta as he prepares to get into bed with her?
(a) If Lucetta would consent, he would like to marry her.
(b) If Lucetta's rich old husband were dead, he would marry her.
(c) If Lucetta young handsome husband were dead, he would marry her.
(d) If Lucetta wouldn't mind, he likes the candle lit.

7. What does Blunt dread the most about his unfortunate incident with Lucetta and her accomplices?
(a) He dreads being hungry and poor.
(b) He dreads having no money.
(c) He dreads losing Lucetta.
(d) He dreads his friends finding out.

8. Why does Willmore offer to join forces and finances with the other merchants of the town?
(a) To afford to be with Angellica.
(b) To destroy Don Antonio.
(c) To start a war.
(d) To go to the carnival.

9. What kind of costumes are Hellena and Florinda wearing to the carnival?
(a) Courtesan costumes.
(b) Gypsy costumes.
(c) Circus acrobat costumes.
(d) Princess costumes.

10. What is unusual about the three couples at the center of the play?
(a) They are all circus performers.
(b) Two of the couples involve the same man.
(c) They are children.
(d) Two of the couples involve the same woman.

11. Which of the following is NOT one of the things Willmore tells Florinda before he realizes who she is in the garden?
(a) How attractive she is.
(b) How honest he is.
(c) That it doesn't matter that he doesn't know her name.
(d) That he is looking for a girl to marry.

12. How does Hellena intend to get into the carnival?
(a) By wearing a disguise.
(b) By sneaking into a back gate.
(c) By paying double the entrance fee.
(d) By dressing to look like her sister.

13. What was unusual about the author of this play?
(a) The author was a 90 year old man.
(b) The author was only 11 years old.
(c) The author was a woman.
(d) The author grew orchids as a hobby.

14. Why doesn't the playwright want to say anything to welcome the audience?
(a) He says the audience didn't pay to get in.
(b) He says they should all go home.
(c) He says the play is bad.
(d) He says it doesn't matter.

15. What little thing do Willmore and Antonio duel over in Act 2?
(a) A small picture of Hellena.
(b) Money.
(c) A small locket of Florinda's.
(d) A small picture of Angellica.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hellena intend to find at the carnival?

2. What do Lucetta, Sancho, and Phillippo do with Blunt's belongings?

3. What is a "double entendre"?

4. At the beginning of Act 2, Scene 1, how does Belvile know that it is not possible for Willmore to approach Angellica yet?

5. What is the typical role of a woman at the time the play was written?

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