The Misanthrope Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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The Misanthrope Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What news does the new visitor have for one of the characters?
(a) A telegram from his distand family.
(b) He must get to work.
(c) He wants to fight for Celimene's heart.
(d) Summon to the royal court.

2. To Alceste, what is worse, people's false friendship or their ridicule?
(a) They are equally bad.
(b) Ridicule.
(c) He doesn't know.
(d) False friendship.

3. Who is Basque?
(a) Célimène's brother.
(b) Célimène's servant.
(c) Célimène's cousin.
(d) Célimène's father.

4. Who is representing that kind of hypocrisy in the beginning of the play, according to the person who complains of hating hypocrisy?
(a) Alceste.
(b) Philinte.
(c) Acaste.
(d) Célimène.

5. Who visits Célimène in Act 2, Scene 2?
(a) Éliante.
(b) Basque.
(c) Acaste.
(d) Alceste.

6. How does Celimene feel when someone is at the door?
(a) Happy.
(b) Anxious.
(c) Excited.
(d) Depressed.

7. In the beginning of Act 1, Scene 2, we are introduced to yet another suitor of Célimène's. Who?
(a) Alceste.
(b) Arsinoé.
(c) Oronte.
(d) Philinte.

8. Why does Philante advise Alceste to get help with the lawsuit in which he is involved?
(a) Philante does not want Alceste to go to jail.
(b) He is definitely in the wrong and needs a good defense.
(c) His accuser is very popular and influential.
(d) His accuser works for the police.

9. With what does Alceste plan to change Celimene?
(a) His social position.
(b) His love.
(c) His money.
(d) His education.

10. In Act 2, Scene 5, what does Alceste receive?
(a) A gift.
(b) Flowers.
(c) A surprise.
(d) A visitor.

11. What does Alceste want Celimene to tell Basque?
(a) That she is not home.
(b) That she is not receiving any other visitors.
(c) That she and Alceste are in the middle of something more important.
(d) That she will see Acaste later.

12. Who does Alceste confide in when he is grieving in Act Two, Scene One?
(a) Oronte.
(b) Philinte.
(c) Eliante.
(d) Celimene.

13. What does Alceste think love and relationship should be based on?
(a) Reason.
(b) Status.
(c) Education.
(d) The heart.

14. At the end of Act 2, Scene 1, we discover Alceste wishes he could do what?
(a) Stop loving Célimène.
(b) Start being dishonest.
(c) Stop being honest.
(d) Run away from his court case.

15. Who is upset by the new visitor in Act Two, Scene Two?
(a) Acaste.
(b) Philinte.
(c) Alceste.
(d) Basque.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Act 3, Scene 2, who enters the room?

2. How does Oronte react to Alceste's opinion of his work?

3. Why is Alceste upset in Act 2, Scene 2?

4. During Oronte's reading of his sonnet to Philinte and Alceste, how does Philinite react to the poem?

5. What does Alceste wish he can do about Celimene?

(see the answer keys)

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