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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. Why does Macduff not pertain to the prophecy the witches give Macbeth?
(a) He was a breach birth.
(b) He was cut from his mother's womb.
(c) He never knew his mother.
(d) He was born prematurely.

2. Why does Bassanio need money at the beginning of Merchant of Venice?
(a) He needs to pay off gambling debts.
(b) He wants to buy land in the country.
(c) He wants to start a shipping business.
(d) He wants to marry a wealthy heiress.

3. How does Leontes want Polixenes killed at the beginning of The Winter's Tale?
(a) He wants him thrown from the battlements.
(b) He wants him set ablaze.
(c) He wants him poisoned.
(d) He wants him stabbed.

4. What does Portia disguise herself as at the end of Merchant of Venice?
(a) A knight.
(b) A queen.
(c) An accountant.
(d) A lawyer.

5. In The Winter's Tale, Polixenes is the king of what kingdom?
(a) Bohemia.
(b) Persia.
(c) Atlantis.
(d) Illyria.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what state does Cordelia's army find the mad Lear?

2. In Merchant of Venice, how does Shylock make money as a usurer?

3. What relative does Lysander plan to flee to with his beloved in A Midsummer Night's Dream?

4. What news does the wicked Queen tell the King at the beginning of Cymbeline?

5. What do Orlando and the disguised Rosaline discuss when they meet in Arden?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Don Pedro's attitude to Beatrice and Benedick at the beginning of Much Ado About Nothing?

2. How are Cordelia and Lear reunited?

3. How does Prospero find Ariel in The Tempest?

4. What is the rift in the spirit room at the beginning of A Midsummer Night's Dream?

5. How are Orlando and Oliver reconciled in As You Like It?

6. Describe the interaction between Prospero and his enemies on the island at the end of The Tempest.

7. In A Midsummer Night's Dream, how does Oberon change the hearts of the Athenian youths?

8. How does Leontes respond to his new daughter at the beginning of The Winter's Tale?

9. How does Proteus betray his friend Valentine in Two Gentlemen of Verona?

10. In The Tempest, how does Prospero bring his enemies to the island?

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