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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Why does Lady Chiltern write a letter to Goring?
(a) She is too shy to talk to him.
(b) She is planning to leave Sir Robert and needs his help.
(c) She needs to meet with him.
(d) She is in love with him.

4. What is Tommy Trafford's occupation?
(a) He doesn't have a job.
(b) He is a doctor.
(c) He's a student.
(d) He is Sir Robert's secretary.

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

6. What happens to alert Sir Robert to the presence of someone in the next room when he is at Goring's?
(a) He hears a door close.
(b) A chair falls over.
(c) He hears laughing.
(d) Someone coughs.

7. According to Caversham, what does <i>The Times</i> say about Robert following his speech?
(a) He's a cad.
(b) He represents what's best in English public life.
(c) He should be thrown out of office.
(d) He's obviously misinformed.

8. After Sir Robert leaves Lady Chiltern and Lord Goring in Act 2, what subject does Lady Chiltern want to discuss with Goring?
(a) Caversham.
(b) Mabel.
(c) Mrs. Cheveley.
(d) Sir Robert.

9. What does Lord Goring say he knows by observation and not by experience?
(a) Love.
(b) A good marriage.
(c) Power.
(d) A practical life.

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

11. In Act 3, Part 2, what does Goring say is a dangerous thing?
(a) Ambition.
(b) Money
(c) Too much experience.
(d) Women.

12. Who does Mrs. Cheveley say has only two topics of conversation--his gout and his wife?
(a) Tommy Trafford.
(b) Lord Mortlake.
(c) Sir Robert.
(d) Caversham.

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

14. What does Caversham say aren't fashionable anymore?
(a) Dinner parties.
(b) Marriage.
(c) Bachelors.
(d) Neck ties.

15. What reason does Goring give for never having a serious conversation after seven?
(a) It makes him talk in his sleep.
(b) He can never sleep after a serious conversation.
(c) He finds them too boring.
(d) Nights are for fun.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Goring describe his proposal to Mabel?

2. In Act 3, Part 1, who does Goring think is in his drawing room?

3. According to Mabel, what does a man say to a girl before he marries her and never after?

4. What does Mrs. Cheveley say modern women don't understand?

5. Who does Goring say is the only person now in danger in Act 4, Part 1?

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