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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Comedy of Errors and Measure For Measure.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did the second set of twins in Comedy of Errors come under Aegeon's care?
(a) He took them after their mother died.
(b) He confused them for his sons.
(c) He purchased them.
(d) He wins them in a game of lots.

2. What does Katharine do when Petruchio does not show for their wedding in Taming of the Shrew?
(a) Weep.
(b) Dance.
(c) Faint.
(d) Laugh.

3. Which of the following characters does not die at the end of King Lear?
(a) Edmund.
(b) Cordelia.
(c) Albany.
(d) Lear.

4. Who marries Cordelia at the beginning of King Lear?
(a) The King of Padua.
(b) The King of France.
(c) The King of Milan.
(d) The King of Spain.

5. In King Lear, Edmund is the bastard son of what earl?
(a) Kent.
(b) Albany.
(c) Gloucester.
(d) Cornwall.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do Claudio and Don Pedro indicate to Benedick that Beatrice loves him in Much Ado About Nothing?

2. What does the jail provost send the Duke in Measure for Measure to ensure Claudio's safety?

3. What earl helps the mad Lear escape to France?

4. What wild animal kill Antigones in The Winter's Tale?

5. What does Rosalind give Orlando when she first meets him?

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