Much Ado About Nothing

1. Who is Leonato?

2. Where does this play take place?

3. Which is a good description of Don John?

4. Who are made for each other but refuse to marry at the beginning of the play?

5. Don John makes Claudio think that Hero is cheating on him by doing which of the following?

by making Claudio watch Borachio woo Margaret, who is standing at Hero's window
by having Borachio describe how Hero has confessed that she does not love Claudio
by giving him proof that Hero has had many past lovers
by bringing in his friend, Borachio, who admits that he is Hero's new lover

6. Claudio, Don Pedro and their friends play a trick to get Beatrice and Benedick to fall in love by doing which of the following?

They have Benedick overhear their conversation where they talk about how Beatrice is in love with Benedick.
They make the two of them spend the night in an abandoned castle and talk all night.
They convince Benedick that the two of them are really similar.
They show the two of them that the reason why they are enemies is really because they like each other.

7. What does Don John give as the reason for his sullenness?

8. Who discovers Don John’s evil plot?

9. Why does the Leonato household tell people that Hero has died?

10. Who in the play is the most socially powerful?