1. What are the two enemy states mentioned in the play ‘Comedy of Errors’?
Answer: Syracuse and Ephesus.
2. What would happen if any merchant of Syracuse was seen in Ephesus?
Answer: He would be put to death or pay a thousand marks as a ransom.
3. Where did Aegeon belong to?
Answer: Syracuse.
4. Where was Aegeon discovered?
Answer: In the street of Ephesus.
5. Who asked Aegeon to tell the story of his life?
Answer: The Duke of Ephesus.
6. Where was Aegeon forced to go after marriage?
Answer: Epidamnum.
7. Who were called Antipholus?
Answer: The twin sons of Aegeon.
8. Why did Aegeon buy the twins of a poor woman?
Answer: To attend his sons.
9. What was the cause of the shipwreck?
Answer: Violent storm.
10. Who took care of the elder ones at the time of shipwreck?
Answer: The wife of Aegeon.
11. Who rescued the wife of Aegeon and the elder ones?
Answer: Fishermen.
12. What are the names of the twin slaves?
Answer: Dromio.
13. Who saved the life of Aegeon?
Answer: The sailors.
14. At which age did Younger Antipholus want to search his mother and brother?
Answer: At eighteen years.
15. How many years did Aegeon wait for Younger Antipholus and slave Dromio to return home?
Answer: Seven years.
16. How many years did Aegeon search for them after that?
Answer: Five years.
17. Why did the Duke give Aegeon one more day?
Answer: To pay the fine by begging or borrowing money from someone.
18. Why could not Aegeon hope to get any help from someone?
Answer: As nobody knew him at Ephesus.
19. Which identity did Antipholus of Syracuse take to avoid punishment?
Answer: Merchant of Epidamnum.
20. Who advised him to assume the identity?
Answer: A friend of Younger Antipholus.
21. Why did Younger Antipholus come to Ephesus?
Answer: To search for his mother and brother.
22. Who was allowed freedom of speech by Younger Antipholus?
Answer: Younger Dromio.
23. Who compared himself to a drop of water in the ocean?
Answer: Younger Antipholus.
24. Who came out in search of Elder Antipholus?
Answer: Elder Dromio.
25. Why did Elder Dromio search for him?
Answer: For dinner.
26. Why was Younger Antipholus surprised to hear that his mistress was waiting for him for dinner?
Answer: Because he was not married yet.
27. Why did Younger Antipholus lose all patience and beat Elder Dromio?
Answer: On hearing about his mistress from Elder Dromio repeatedly.
28. Why did Adriana get furious?
Answer: Adriana got furious on hearing her husband’s refusal to acknowledge her.
29. Who is Luciana?
Answer: Adriana’s sister.
30. Why did Adriana come to the inn?
Answer: To take her husband home.
31. Who was allowed freedom of speech by Younger Antipholus?
Answer: Younger Dromio.
32. Who compared himself to a drop of water in the ocean?
Answer: Younger Antipholus.
33. Who came out in search of Elder Antipholus?
Answer: Elder Dromio.
34. Why did Elder Dromio search for him?
Answer: For dinner.
35. Why was Younger Antipholus surprised to hear that his mistress was waiting for him for dinner?
Answer: Because he was not married yet.
36. Why did Younger Antipholus lose all patience and beat Elder Dromio?
Answer: On hearing about his mistress from Elder Dromio repeatedly.
37. Why did Adriana get furious?
Answer: On hearing her husband’s refusal to acknowledge her.
38. Who is Luciana?
Answer: Adriana’s sister.
39. What did Adriana think of her husband?
Answer: She thought he was in love with another lady.
40. Why did Adriana come to the inn?
Answer: To take her husband home.
41. Where had Elder Antipholus lived?
Answer: At Ephesus.
42. For how many years had Elder Antipholus been living there?
Answer: For 20 years.
43. Who sold Elder Antipholus and Elder Dromio after the shipwreck?
Answer: The fishermen.
44. Whom did they sell to?
Answer: To the Duke Menaphon.
45. Who was Menaphon?
Answer: The uncle of the Duke of Ephesus.
46. Who made Elder Antipholus an officer in the army?
Answer: The Duke of Ephesus.
47. How did Elder Antipholus establish himself at Ephesus?
Answer: As a brave warrior.
48. Who was Adriana?
Answer: A rich lady of Ephesus and the wife of Elder Antipholus.
49. Where did Younger Antipholus intend to dine?
Answer: In an inn.
50. Who did not allow Elder Antipholus and Elder Dromio inside the house?
Answer: The servants.
51. Why did not the servants allow them?
Answer: As their mistress ordered them not to allow anyone.
52. Whom was Younger Antipholus attracted to?
Answer: Luciana.
53. Who gave Younger Antipholus a gold chain?
Answer: A goldsmith.
54. Why did the goldsmith give the gold chain to Younger Antipholus?
Answer: As Elder Antipholus ordered him to do so.
55. Why was the goldsmith arrested?
Answer: As he did not pay the debts.
56. Why was Elder Antipholus arrested?
Answer: As he refused to pay for the gold chain.
57. Who was sent to Adriana to take money for avoiding arrest?
Answer: Younger Dromio.
58. To whom did Younger Dromio give the money that he brought from Adriana?
Answer: To Younger Antipholus.
59. With whom did Elder Antipholus dine when he was denied admittance into the house?
Answer: With another lady.
60. Why did Elder Antipholus resolve to dine with another lady?
Answer: To take revenge for his insult the previous night.
61. What did Elder Antipholus promise to present the lady?
Answer: The gold chain.
62. What did the lady give Elder Antipholus?
Answer: A ring.
63. Who came to Adriana to tell about her husband’s lunacy?
Answer: The lady with whom Elder Antipholus dined.
64. Who decided to pay for the gold chain for the second time?
Answer: Adriana.
65. Where was Elder Antipholus ordered to bind in?
Answer: In a dark room.
66. Why was Elder Dromio considered mad?
Answer: As he confirmed what his master had said.
67. Who reported that Antipholus and Dromio had broken loose from captivity and seen roaming in the streets?
Answer: A servant.
68. Where did Younger Antipholus and Younger Dromio run to save themselves from Adriana?
Answer: To a convent.
69. Who was married to Younger Antipholus at last?
Answer: Luciana.
70. What, according to the abbess, was the reason for Antipholus’s madness?
Answer: Adriana’s jealous temper and her continuous brawls with her husband.
71. Where was the execution to take place?
Answer: Near the convent.
72. Why did the Duke attend the place of execution?
Answer: To pardon Aegeon if anyone would come forward to pay the fine.
73. Why did Elder Antipholus demand justice from the Duke?
Answer: As he was unjustly confined on the charge of lunacy by Adriana.
74. Why did Elder Antipholus refuse to pay the fine to save Aegeon’s life?
Answer: As he could not recognize his father.
75. Who was actually the abbess of the convent?
Answer: The wife of Aegeon.
