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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. What does Florinda intend to do at the carnival?
(a) Run away.
(b) Dance all night.
(c) Kiss her future husband.
(d) Give a note to Captain Belvile.

2. Who saves Florinda from Willmore when he is attacking her in Act 3, Scene 5?
(a) Blunt and Frederic appear and pull him off her.
(b) Belvile and Phillippo appear and pull him off her.
(c) Belvile and Frederic appear and pull him off her.
(d) Pedro and Antonio appear and pull him off her.

3. 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) That he is looking for a girl to marry.
(c) That it doesn't matter that he doesn't know her name.
(d) How honest he is.

4. Just as Don Pedro appears at the carnival, what does Florinda give Belvile?
(a) A lace handkerchief.
(b) A locket.
(c) A love letter.
(d) A lock of her hair.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What comment does Pedro make as his servant tells him that Florinda is safe after the attack in the garden?

2. How do the men of the family treat Hellena and Florinda?

3. What do Belvile and Frederic do as the action escalates in the garden?

4. Florinda can't stand which of her possible suitors?

5. What kind of "mask" does Willmore show Angellica in their first meeting?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Angellica "masking" as she meets Willmore for the first time?

2. How does Belvile plan to give Florinda time to escape from Pedro's house?

3. How does Belvile try to persuade Antonio to spare him?

4. Why does Angellica want to get revenge on Willmore?

5. What does Florinda call Pedro as he repeatedly thwarts her efforts to marry Belvile?

6. What theme of The Rover does Blunt's costume at the end of the play reinforce?

7. How does Florinda feel about the way Pedro treats her and why?

8. What is the difference between an aside and a soliloquy?

9. Does Hellena seem well suited to become a nun? Why or why not?

10. What is a striking difference between how Pedro expects Hellena and Florinda to behave and how they actually act?

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