View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 3, Part 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Hastings' double entendre about the calf brains on the menu?
(a) Do you suggest we lack brains, sir?
(b) I supposed you had only a half a brain.
(c) A brain is something missing in most houses.
(d) Let your brains be knocked out, sir, I don't like them.

2. When Mrs. Hardcastle tries to get Tony to say home one night, where is he planning to go?
(a) The Cock and Bull pub.
(b) To church.
(c) The Three Pigeons pub.
(d) The theater.

3. What does Tony come running into the room to announce?
(a) That he has Constance's jewels to give her.
(b) That he overheard Hastings and Constance planning an elopement.
(c) That his mother will not release the jewels.
(d) That the barn is on fire.

4. What is the one area of agreement between Kate and Mr. Hardcastle about Marlow?
(a) He is a man with a split personality.
(b) They think they can change him to be a respectable gentleman.
(c) If he is what they saw of him on first meeting, neither of them will consent to a marriage.
(d) Maybe he is just tired from the long trip from London.

5. How is Mr. Hardcastle astonished by Kate's conversation?
(a) She says that Marlow is the very image of a grand gentleman.
(b) She says that Marlow was as much a gentleman as Hastings.
(c) She says Marlow was timid and had a bashful manner.
(d) She says that Marlow spoke well and was very courteous.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is so amusing about the way Kate and her father describe Marlow?

2. Who comes to visit Kate as she is contemplating the evening and meeting Marlow?

3. How interested is Hardcastle in politics?

4. What does Mr. Hardcastle expect from Diggory who was brought into the house from his work in the barn?

5. When Kate agrees to accept the young man if he asks for her hand, how does her father tease her?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 459 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample