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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 3, Scenes 11 and 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who gives Isabella advice in Act 3, Scene 8?
(a) Hieronimo.
(b) Bel-Imperia.
(c) Her maid.
(d) A servant.

2. What is contained in the box that Lorenzo gives a servant and says must remain closed?
(a) Pedringano's pardon.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Gold.
(d) Pebbles.

3. Which of the following characters' motives are exposed and explained in Act 2, Scene 3?
(a) Balthazar's.
(b) The king's.
(c) Bel-Imperia's.
(d) The ambassador's.

4. Hieronimo calls to Pedringano, and Lorenzo follows him and tells Pedringano that Bel-Imperia has been hidden by whom?
(a) Lorenzo.
(b) Castile.
(c) Serberine.
(d) The viceroy.

5. Of what does Lorenzo try to assure Balthazar at the start of Act 2?
(a) That Bel-Imperia will love him.
(b) That his life is not at risk.
(c) That he is not guilty of murder.
(d) That he will inherit a position of power.

Short Answer Questions

1. How can the language of the viceroy's soliloquy (really an aside) in Act 1, Scene 3 be described?

2. How do the king and his people celebrate their victory in the battle against Portugal?

3. Who is the god of the dead?

4. How does Balthazar respond to Bel-Imperia's rejection?

5. As Bel-Imperia calls for help after Lorenzo, Balthazar, Pedringano, and Serberine enter disguised, who grabs Bel-Imperia?

(see the answer key)

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