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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Goring say is the only person now in danger in Act 4, Part 1?
(a) Goring.
(b) Mrs. Cheveley.
(c) Lady Chiltern.
(d) Mabel.

2. In Act 3, Part 1, who does Goring think is in his drawing room?
(a) Mabel.
(b) Lady Markby.
(c) Lady Chiltern.
(d) Mrs. Cheveley.

3. How does Goring reply when Caversham asks why he doesn't try to do something useful in life?
(a) He's already doing something useful.
(b) He just doesn't want to.
(c) He says he's too young.
(d) Usefulness is dull.

4. What does Lady Markby say Lady Bonar's new genius does?
(a) He's a doctor.
(b) He's a composer.
(c) Nothing at all.
(d) He's a poet.

5. At the end of Act 2, what does Mrs. Cheveley tell Lady Chiltern about Sir Robert?
(a) He was once a poor man.
(b) He made a pass at Lady Markby.
(c) He plans to divorce Lady Chiltern.
(d) He sold a stockbroker a cabinet secret.

6. What does Lady Chiltern want to do about the theft of her letter to Goring?
(a) Intercept it before it gets to Sir Robert.
(b) Tell Sir Robert everything.
(c) Have Mrs. Cheveley's house ransacked for the letter.
(d) Forget about it.

7. Why doesn't Mabel like geniuses?
(a) She can't talk to them.
(b) She says they are pretentious.
(c) She thinks they are quite impossible.
(d) She doesn't like people who are smarter than her.

8. Why do Lady Markby and Mrs. Cheveley say they've come to call on Mrs. Chiltern in Act 2, Part 2?
(a) To discuss Sir Robert.
(b) To thank her for the party.
(c) To see if anyone found Mrs. Cheveley's diamond brooch.
(d) To bring her a gift.

9. When does Act 4 take place?
(a) The evening of Mrs. Cheveley's visit to Goring's.
(b) Two weeks later.
(c) Immediately after Mrs. Cheveley leaves Goring's.
(d) The morning after Act 3.

10. Why doesn't Mrs. Cheveley think life has taught Lady Chiltern anything?
(a) Because Lady Chiltern hasn't changed.
(b) Lady Chiltern is ignorant.
(c) Lady Chiltern still looks very young.
(d) Lady Chiltern is a society lady.

11. What does Lady Markby say is the greatest blow to a happy married life since Higher Education of Women was invented?
(a) The House of Commons.
(b) Mrs. Cheveley.
(c) London society parties.
(d) Politics.

12. Why doesn't Goring like to know what people are saying behind his back?
(a) It hurts his feelings.
(b) They're all fools anyway.
(c) It makes him too conceited.
(d) He gets angry.

13. What good news does Goring deliver to Lady Chiltern in Act 4, Part 1?
(a) Sir Robert denounced the Argentine Canal scheme.
(b) Mrs. Cheveley confessed she never had a letter.
(c) He burned Sir Robert's letter.
(d) Mrs. Cheveley has left town.

14. What does Sir Robert say his sources found out about Mrs. Cheveley?
(a) She cheated while in school.
(b) Nothing.
(c) She once worked as a prostitute.
(d) She is a thief.

15. What does Goring say makes marriage such a hopeless, one-sided institution?
(a) Love.
(b) The moral sense of women.
(c) Dishonesty.
(d) Truth.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Sir Robert say spies are of no use nowadays?

2. Who proposes to Mabel before Goring does so in Act 4?

3. What does Goring want Lady Chiltern to do after he reads her letter?

4. What does Caversham say aren't fashionable anymore?

5. In Act 3, Part 2, when does Mrs. Cheveley say she wants Goring to promise to marry her?

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