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MARZIO IS LED IN..

by Percy Bysshe Shelley.

Ten questions on craft, meaning, and form. Untimed. Answer every question to submit.

Q01of 10

What is the primary dramatic form and structure of this passage?

Q02of 10

What does the First Judge mean when he asks Marzio, 'Dare you, with lips yet white from the rack's kiss / Speak false?'

Q03of 10

Beatrice's long speech to Cardinal Camillo (lines 35–57) primarily argues that:

Q04of 10

Which literary technique does Shelley use in the phrase 'He shrinks from her regard like autumn's leaf / From the keen breath of the serenest north'?

Q05of 10

In Beatrice's speech beginning 'O thou who tremblest on the giddy verge' (line 115), what is the thematic purpose of her reference to her father's abuse?

Q06of 10

What is the significance of Marzio's manner of death at the end of the scene?

Q07of 10

The Judge's image—'Let tortures strain the truth till it be white / As snow thrice sifted by the frozen wind'—is best described as:

Q08of 10

When Beatrice rhetorically argues that a guilty schemer would not have left Marzio 'this two-edged instrument / Of my misdeed…unsheathed amid a world of foes,' she is employing which technique?

Q09of 10

Cardinal Camillo's emotional response to Beatrice is most directly influenced by:

Q10of 10

What does Beatrice mean when she says, 'Worse than a bloody hand is a hard heart'?

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