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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sir Robert compare himself to in Act 3, Part 1?
(a) A lovelorn teenager.
(b) The tip of a pen.
(c) A ship without a rudder.
(d) A compass without a needle.

2. Why does Mabel want Lady Chiltern to talk to Tommy Trafford?
(a) He's making poor decisions.
(b) He keeps proposing to Mabel.
(c) He's very unhappy.
(d) She wants him to propose to her.

3. In Act 3, Part 1, what does Sir Robert say is the greatest thing in the world?
(a) Ambition.
(b) Power.
(c) Money.
(d) Love.

4. With whom does Caversham agree when she says one can never believe a word Goring says?
(a) Lady Markby.
(b) Lady Chiltern.
(c) Mabel.
(d) Mrs. Cheveley.

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

6. 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 says he's too young.
(c) Usefulness is dull.
(d) He just doesn't want to.

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

8. According to Mabel, what does a man say to a girl before he marries her and never after?
(a) I love you.
(b) Tell me how you feel.
(c) What is your opinion?
(d) Please be serious.

9. 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) The House of Commons.
(d) London society parties.

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

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

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

13. Who does Goring say Mrs. Cheveley stole the brooch from?
(a) Lady Berkshire.
(b) Lady Chiltern.
(c) Himself.
(d) Mabel.

14. How does Mrs. Cheveley say she got the brooch in Act 3, Part 2 when she is talking to Goring?
(a) She found it.
(b) It was a present.
(c) She bought it.
(d) She stole it.

15. Who does Caversham say has no common sense at all?
(a) Goring.
(b) Women.
(c) Mabel.
(d) Lady Chiltern.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who says Lord Goring isn't good enough for Mabel?

2. Why does Goring say Mrs. Cheveley knows nothing about love?

3. When Sir Robert leaves Goring's, whom does Goring think Sir Robert was talking about?

4. In Act 3, Part 1, what event does Sir Robert say begins at eleven?

5. What happens to alert Sir Robert to the presence of someone in the next room when he is at Goring's?

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