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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mr. Hardcastle expect from Diggory who was brought into the house from his work in the barn?
(a) To perform the duties of butler.
(b) To make a show at the side table.
(c) To dance and entertain the guests.
(d) To act as doorman.

2. What do Hastings and Marlow believe?
(a) That what Tony told them about the innkeeper is true.
(b) That they might stay over one more night.
(c) That they must get away from Hardcastle.
(d) That Hardcastle can tell them which way to go to find Kate.

3. As soon as Hardcastle is out of sight, what do the servants begin saying?
(a) They say they are going back to their old jobs.
(b) They begin arguing over which one is most important.
(c) None of them can remember his or her job.
(d) They say the master has lost his mind.

4. What dichotomy does Marlow bewail?
(a) An impudent man may fake modesty, but a modest man cannot fake impudence.
(b) You cannot pay upper class women the same as you do the lower class.
(c) Low class women are not bound by the reserve of upper class women.
(d) Lower class women do not expect marriage like the upper class.

5. As the play opens, who are the two characters who enter from the right?
(a) The maid and Mrs. Hardcastle
(b) Marlow and Hastings
(c) Mr. and Mrs. Hardcastle
(d) Kate and Marlow

6. What does Hardcastle assume from Kate's comments about Marlow?
(a) That her judgement is failing her.
(b) That Marlow knows how to speak with a lady.
(c) That she must have met someone else.
(d) That she finds him as objectionable as he does.

7. Hardcastle does not recognize the insults at first and attempts to do what?
(a) Enter into a conversation with Marlow and Hastings.
(b) Get them to sit at a table.
(c) Advise them about their dress.
(d) Order Marlow and Hastings to sit down.

8. How does Hardcastle finally get the attention of Marlow and Hastings?
(a) By firing a pistol.
(b) By mentioning sex.
(c) By kicking them.
(d) By talking louder.

9. What happens when Hardcastle hears a coach drive up in front of the house?
(a) He hurries out to greet Marlow.
(b) He thinks it is the mail coach.
(c) He runs to sit down in the living room.
(d) He rushes the servants through their jobs one more time.

10. Why does Constance not believe that Mrs. Hardcastle has lost her jewels?
(a) Because Mrs. Hardcastle knows the value of the jewels.
(b) Because she has them herself.
(c) Because she knows where Mrs. Harcastle keeps them.
(d) Because Tony told her they are not lost.

11. What does Tony say his mother would part with before she gave up the jewels?
(a) Her husband, Mr. Hardcastle.
(b) Her latest Paris fashions.
(c) Her favorite son.
(d) The last sound tooth in her head.

12. What hinders Marlow from seeking a wife?
(a) Going through the terrors of a formal courtship.
(b) He has no one to arrange a marriage for him.
(c) His preference for barmaids.
(d) He fears he cannot endure an arranged marriage.

13. What is Hardcastle's reaction when Kate enters the room?
(a) That she must stay in her room until Marlow departs.
(b) He is pleased with the modesty of her dress as they had agreed.
(c) That she will hate him for recommending Marlow to her.
(d) That she must leave at once and go to London.

14. What does Diggory say will be difficult for him?
(a) To walk without tripping over his feet.
(b) To speak in a refined manner.
(c) To keep his hands off the sherry.
(d) To see people eating at the table and not be able to eat himself.

15. Who comes to visit Kate as she is contemplating the evening and meeting Marlow?
(a) Constance Neville, her best friend.
(b) Tony Lumpkin, her stepbrother.
(c) Mrs. Hardcastle wanting to know what her husband told Kate.
(d) The maid with a glass of milk.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Marlow's plan for meeting Kate Hardcastle?

2. Of what does Marlow envy Hastings?

3. What does Tony tell Marlow and Hastings about the owner of the inn?

4. Where does Diggory say he learned how to hold his hands?

5. How interested is Hardcastle in politics?

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