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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does Sir Robert say spies are of no use nowadays?
(a) They cost too much.
(b) They are too lazy to work.
(c) No one has any secrets.
(d) The newspapers do their work instead.

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

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

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

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

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

8. What does Goring say is always unscrupulous?
(a) Ambition.
(b) Women.
(c) Politics.
(d) The government.

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

10. What kind of woman does Goring say he'd like to marry?
(a) A successful woman.
(b) The prettiest fool in England.
(c) A woman with a good sense of humor.
(d) A woman with intelligence.

11. Who does Mrs. Cheveley say talks more and says less than anybody she's ever met?
(a) Mabel.
(b) Lady Chiltern.
(c) Goring.
(d) Lady Markby.

12. What does Mabel tell Lady Chiltern is very unbecoming on Goring?
(a) Greed.
(b) Foul language.
(c) Seriousness.
(d) Foolishness.

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

14. What does Mrs. Cheveley reveal to Goring as she leaves his house?
(a) She still has Sir Robert's letter.
(b) She has Lady Chiltern's letter to Goring.
(c) She is still married to Baron Arnheim.
(d) She never loved him.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who says, "When a man has once loved a woman, he will do anything for her, except continue to love her"?

3. How does Goring claim to have gotten the brooch while talking to Mrs. Cheveley?

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

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

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