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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What reason does Mrs. Cheveley give for her passion for listening through keyholes?
(a) You can hear wonderful things through them.
(b) She makes her living by blackmailing others based on what she hears.
(c) The best secrets occur behind closed doors.
(d) She once heard Goring confess his love for her through a keyhole.

2. What does Mrs. Cheveley find at Goring's while she is waiting for him?
(a) Lady Chiltern's letter.
(b) Sir Robert's letter.
(c) Nothing.
(d) A necklace.

3. 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) Lady Chiltern's tea party.
(d) The Bachelor's Ball.

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

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

6. Who says Lord Goring isn't good enough for Mabel?
(a) Caversham.
(b) Mabel.
(c) Lord Goring.
(d) Sir Robert.

7. Why does Lord Goring prefer pluck over genius?
(a) Geniuses are boring.
(b) It's not as common as genius is.
(c) People with pluck are more successful.
(d) He's a plucky person.

8. In Act 3, Part 2, when does Mrs. Cheveley say she wants Goring to promise to marry her?
(a) After Sir Robert's ruin.
(b) By week's end.
(c) Immediately.
(d) Tomorrow.

9. Who proposes to Mabel before Goring does so in Act 4?
(a) Caversham.
(b) Lord Devonshire.
(c) Tommy Trafford.
(d) Mason.

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

11. What does Mrs. Cheveley do to keep Goring from calling the police?
(a) Offers Goring money.
(b) Begs his forgiveness.
(c) Runs away.
(d) Gives him Sir Robert's letter.

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

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

14. 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.

15. When Sir Robert leaves Goring's, whom does Goring think Sir Robert was talking about?
(a) Lady Markby.
(b) Mabel.
(c) Mrs. Cheveley.
(d) Lady Chiltern.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Mabel say is the most ornamental person in London?

2. Who does Mrs. Cheveley say talks more and says less than anybody she's ever met?

3. What does Sir Robert tell Lady Chiltern was her mistake after she learns his secret?

4. Why does Lady Markby want Sir John to be sent to the Upper House?

5. How does Goring suggest to Lady Chiltern that she handle the theft of her letter to Goring?

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