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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Mrs. Cheveley say modern women don't understand?
(a) Good manners.
(b) The value of education.
(c) Their husbands.
(d) Money.

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

4. How does Lord Goring find out about the speech Sir Robert gave in the House of Commons?
(a) Caversham tells him.
(b) He attends the speech.
(c) Sir Robert tells him.
(d) Lady Chiltern tells him.

5. In Act 3, Part 1, what event does Sir Robert say begins at eleven?
(a) The debate on the Argentine Canal.
(b) Mrs. Cheveley's trial.
(c) The Bachelor's Ball.
(d) Lady Chiltern's tea party.

6. What proof does Goring have that Mrs. Cheveley had stolen the brooch?
(a) A letter Mrs. Cheveley wrote.
(b) He has a picture of someone else wearing it.
(c) She didn't know it could be a bracelet and she can't remove it.
(d) Lady Chiltern's word that it once belonged to her.

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

8. Who says, "When a man has once loved a woman, he will do anything for her, except continue to love her"?
(a) Lady Chiltern.
(b) Mabel.
(c) Mrs. Cheveley.
(d) Goring.

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

10. What does Goring want Lady Chiltern to do after he reads her letter?
(a) Ask her husband to tell her the whole story.
(b) Confront Mrs. Cheveley.
(c) Stand by her husband.
(d) Leave her husband.

11. According to Goring, life can't be understood and lived without what?
(a) Charity.
(b) Power.
(c) Love.
(d) Money.

12. How does Goring suggest to Lady Chiltern that she handle the theft of her letter to Goring?
(a) Tell him she didn't write it.
(b) Forget about it.
(c) Tell Sir Robert everything.
(d) Steal the letter back.

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

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

15. Who does Mrs. Cheveley say she hates now more than ever in Act 3, Part 2?
(a) Goring.
(b) Baron Arnheim.
(c) Sir Robert.
(d) Lady Chiltern.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Caversham say has no common sense at all?

2. Why does Mrs. Cheveley come to visit Goring at his home?

3. According to Caversham, what does <i>The Times</i> say about Robert following his speech?

4. To whom does Goring say "Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear"?

5. When does Act 4 take place?

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