Q.1
What is the immediate context for this passage?
  • Leonato, the Friar, Beatrice and Benedick have agreed to pretend that Hero is dead
  • Don John has just persuaded Don Pedro and Claudio to spy at Hero's window
  • Dogberry has brought Borachio and Conrad to Leonato to confess
  • Claudio and Don Pedro have just persuaded Benedick that Beatrice is in love with him
Q.2
What immediately follows this passage?
  • Claudio agrees to marry a niece of Antonio's
  • Leonato challenges Claudio to a duel
  • Benedick agrees to challenge Claudio for Hero's honor
  • Leonato holds a second feast
Q.3
What is meant by Benedick's line, "Beat—"?
  • He loses his train of thought
  • Beatrice interrupts him
  • The private conversation between Beatrice and Benedick is interrupted by Hero regaining consciousness
  • The private conversation between Beatrice and Benedick is suddenly interrupted by the appearance of Don John
Q.4
"I will swear by it that you love me, and I will make him eat it that says I love not you." Benedick swears by his sword that he loves Beatrice. What does he mean by "I will make him eat it"?
  • He will invite anyone who denies his love for Beatrice to a feast where he will prove the doubter wrong
  • He will argue endlessly with anyone who denies his love for Beatrice
  • He will make anyone who denies his love for Beatrice metaphorically eat his words
  • He will use his sword to fight anyone who denies his love for Beatrice
Q.5
Referring to the answer to the previous question, how does Beatrice overturn Benedick's boastful promise?
  • She undermines the useless boast and asks him for an act which would prove his love to her
  • She redirects attention to Hero's situation
  • She asks him to kill Claudio
  • All of the above
Q.6
"O that I were a man! What, bear her in hand until they come to take hands, and then with public accusation, uncovered slander, unmitigated rancor - O God that I were a man! I would eat his heart in the market place." Which aspect of Claudio's refusal to marry Hero does Beatrice most condemn in these lines?
  • That Claudio refused to listen to Hero
  • That Claudio shamed her in public
  • That Claudio, a man, could ill treat Hero, a woman
  • That Leonato did not defend his own daughter
Q.7
Which of the following refers to fighting a duel for Hero's honor?
  • "It is a man’s office"
  • "What offense, sweet Beatrice?"
  • "And do it with all thy heart"
  • "Talk with a man out at a window"
Q.8
Which of the following lines does NOT imply that Benedick is somehow physically restraining Beatrice?
  • "Nay, I pray you, let me go"
  • "In faith, I will go"
  • "We’ll be friends first"
  • "You dare easier be friends with me than fight with mine enemy"
Q.9
"Will you not eat your word?" Beatrice's question aligns two different weapons capable of violence. What are these?
  • Love and lies
  • Darkness and lies
  • Words and swords
  • Love and poison
Q.10
Which of the following lines contrast outer appearances with inner reality?
  • "I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest"
  • "Come, bid me do anything for thee"
  • "I am gone though I am here"
  • "Is Claudio thine enemy?"
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