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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What first two words of a Latin maxim meaning “to get up at dawn is very helpful” does Sir Toby Belch say in Act II Scene III?
(a) Semper fidelis
(b) Te amo
(c) Antonio scribet
(d) Diluculo surgere

2. What “foolish knight” does Maria say Sir Toby Belch brought to woo Olivia in Act I Scene III?
(a) Malvolio
(b) Titus
(c) Sir Andrew Aguecheek
(d) Sir Topas

3. Malvolio hands Cesario what object in Act II Scene II?
(a) A letter
(b) A handkerchief
(c) A ring
(d) A necklace

4. What is the name of Olivia’s steward in the play?
(a) Titus
(b) Malvolio
(c) Feste
(d) Fabian

5. Viola refers to her disguise as what in Act II Scene II?
(a) A courtesy
(b) A wickedness
(c) An audacity
(d) A crime

6. Who governs the land where Viola arrives in Act I Scene II, according to the Captain?
(a) Sir Andrew Aguecheek
(b) Orsino
(c) Baptista
(d) Malvolio

7. Sir Toby Belch claims that the “foolish knight” he brought to woo Olivia earns how much per year in Act I Scene III?
(a) 1,500 ducats
(b) 3,000 ducats
(c) 12,000 ducats
(d) 7,000 ducats

8. Sebastian tells his friend and savior that he is bound for whose court in Act II Scene I?
(a) Sir Topas’s
(b) Orsino’s
(c) Fabian’s
(d) Olivia’s

9. The Captain tells Viola in Act I Scene II, “When my tongue blabs, then let mine eyes” what?
(a) Find beauty
(b) See thine
(c) Fall out
(d) Not see

10. What is the setting for Act I Scene V?
(a) The sea-coast
(b) Olivia’s garden
(c) Elysium
(d) Olivia’s house

11. Maria tells Sir Toby Belch that Olivia takes great exceptions to his what in Act I Scene III?
(a) Hasty departure
(b) Religious insincerity
(c) Drunken revelry
(d) Ill hours

12. Viola states in a soliloquy in Act II Scene II, “Fortune forbid my outside have not” what?
(a) Charm’d her
(b) Denied her
(c) Hasten’d her
(d) Chasten’d her

13. What word does Maria use in Act II Scene III that means to howl or screech like cats?
(a) Mellifluous
(b) Hyperbolical
(c) Consecrated
(d) Caterwauling

14. What does the jester say “are no bottle-ale houses” in Act II Scene III?
(a) The master’s homes
(b) The Myrmidons
(c) The Sirens
(d) The Vaspians

15. Who asks Sir Toby Belch and Sir Andrew in Act II Scene III, “Is there no respect of place, persons, nor time in you?”
(a) Olivia
(b) Orsino
(c) Fabian
(d) Malvolio

Short Answer Questions

1. The Captain tells Viola that he was born how many hoursof travel from the place they stand in Act I Scene II?

2. Olivia’s court jester states in Act I Scene V, “Many a good hanging prevents” what?

3. What is the name of Olivia’s court jester?

4. What is the setting of Act I Scene II?

5. Orsino describes music as a “sweet sound, that breathes upon a bank of ______” in Act I Scene I?

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