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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lady Chiltern say gives one an instinct to things?
(a) Love.
(b) Education.
(c) Social standing.
(d) Experience.

2. What does Lady Chiltern demand that Sir Robert do immediately, in Act 1, Part 3?
(a) Retire from public life.
(b) Write a letter to Mrs. Cheveley saying he will not support the Argentine Canal scheme.
(c) Throw Mrs. Cheveley out of their house.
(d) Tell Goring to leave the party.

3. At the Chiltern's dinner party, what does Mrs. Cheveley say cannot explain women?
(a) Religion.
(b) Psychology.
(c) Other women.
(d) Men.

4. Who says, "As a rule, everybody turns out to be somebody else"?
(a) Mabel.
(b) Lady Markby.
(c) Lady Chiltern.
(d) Goring.

5. During the Chiltern's dinner party, where does Mrs. Cheveley say she will be the next night at half past eleven?
(a) In the Ladies Gallery.
(b) At Baron Arnheim's house.
(c) At Gorings.
(d) At Sir Robert's door.

Short Answer Questions

1. What request does Mrs. Cheveley make of Sir Robert concerning the report he is to give to the House of Commons?

2. How does Mrs. Cheveley say she stays young and beautiful?

3. According to Mrs. Cheveley, what do Englishmen always get after a good meal?

4. What reason does Mrs. Cheveley give Sir Robert for not giving him time to consider her offer?

5. Who wrote the letter Mrs. Cheveley plans to blackmail Sir Robert with?

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