1: In the first scene of the play, what fate does Proteus propose for Speed's failure to serve successfully as a go-between?
a. Vanquish from the kingdom
b. Hanging
c. Servitude as a shepherd
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2: Where does Valentine's father decide to send him for worldly experience?
a. To the local brothel
b. Verona on the Thames
c. Milan
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3: Who woos Valentine into falling in love with her?
a. Silvia
b. Julia
c. Lucetta
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4: Launce suffers emotional separation from the ungrateful
a. Crab, his dog.
b. Julia, his once betrothed.
c. Romeo, his bastard brother.
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5: Shakespeare uses what concept to revive a dying plot?
a. Til death do you part
b. Love at first sight
c. All power to the people
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6: The playwright casts Proteus as a
a. noble man.
b. dullard.
c. villain.
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7: In Act II, Silvia compares her love to
a. the movement of a stream.
b. a flower's petals.
c. the soft sounds of a nightingale.
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8: Who does the Duke want his daughter to marry?
a. Valentine
b. Thurio
c. Speed
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9: What does the Duke find inside Valentine's cloak in Act III?
a. A love letter and a ladder
b. A bottle of bourbon and a knife
c. A list of cosmetics and a powder puff
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10: What role does the honorable band of thieves offer Valentine in their Act IV encounter?
a. The generalship of their gang
b. The chief cook at their upcoming celebration
c. The disguised peasant who will free their brethren
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11: Julia dresses as what character to discover truth revealed about Proteus affections?
a. A lady of the night
b. The Queen of England
c. A page
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12: What has become of Eglamour's true love when Silvia invites him along to Mantau?
a. She married another man.
b. She died.
c. She revealed her interest her other women.
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13: Who said the following: "That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man/If with his tongue he cannot win a woman."
a. The Duke
b. Silvia
c. Valentine
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14: Who relieves himself under the Duke's table?
a. a. Speed, for comic relief
b. Launce's dog
c. Eglamour, who suffers from a painful disease
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15: At the end of the play, who does Julia meet and characterize as “A virtuous gentlewoman, mild and beautiful!”
a. Her biological mother
b. Her arch rival
c. Her trusted servant, who returns from afar
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