Q.1
What is the immediate context for this passage?
  • Hero and Ursula have sent Margaret to inform Beatrice that they are gossiping about her in the orchard
  • Leonato has just agreed to marry his daughter Hero to Claudio
  • Benedick has just written a sonnet to Beatrice
  • Margaret has just impersonated Hero in her chamber with Borachio
Q.2
What immediately follows this passage?
  • Dogberry instructs the watchmen
  • Beatrice decides to reciprocate Benedick's love
  • Claudio rejects Hero at the altar
  • Beatrice calls Benedick to dinner
Q.3
Which of the following is an example of foreshadowing in this passage?
  • "If I should speak / She would mock me into air, O, she would laugh me / Out of myself"
  • "Therefore let Benedick, like covered fire, / Consume away in sighs, waste inwardly"
  • "And truly, I’ll devise some honest slanders / To stain my cousin with. One doth not know / How much an ill word may empoison liking"
  • "Signor Benedick, / For shape, for bearing, argument, and valor / Goes foremost in report through Italy"
Q.4
Hero says she has never met a man that Beatrice does not "spell backwards". What does she mean by this?
  • Beatrice is not very good at spelling
  • Beatrice casts spells on men
  • Beatrice is easily confused, like Dogberry
  • Beatrice is contrary; she portrays each man in reverse
Q.5
What does Hero identify to be as bad as death caused by tickling?
  • Death caused by sorrow
  • Death by physical torture
  • Death by mockery
  • Death by war
Q.6
Hero says, in her aside, that Cupid kills some "with arrows, some with traps". What does she mean by this?
  • People can find themselves unexpectedly paired together, even if they have never fallen passionately in love
  • People who do not fall passionately in love would be better off not getting married
  • People who do not fall passionately in love have been able successfully to avoid Cupid
  • Beatrice and Benedick have absolute freedom to make whatever choices they desire
Q.7
Who is compared to a bird in this passage?
  • Beatrice
  • Benedick
  • Hero
  • Claudio
Q.8
Which of the following lines expresses the idea that reputation is created by deeds?
  • "Signor Benedick, / For shape, for bearing, argument, and valor / Goes foremost in report through Italy"
  • "Stand I condemned for pride and scorn so much?"
  • "He is the only man of Italy, / Always excepted my dear Claudio"
  • "His excellence did earn it ere he had it"
Q.9
Ursula appeals to which of Beatrice's characteristics?
  • Humility
  • Jealousy
  • Pride
  • Greed
Q.10
Beatrice refers to "fire" in her ears. What is the significance of this metaphor?
  • Gossip is dangerous, like fire
  • She feels some shame at the impression of herself which her dear friends hold
  • Beatrice's ears are "burning" because other people are talking about her
  • All of the above
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