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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old is Cecily?
(a) Eighteen
(b) Fourteen
(c) Twenty-five
(d) Thirty-two

2. When the Cecily and Gwendolen both discover that each is engaged to Ernest, what do they compare?
(a) Diaries
(b) Figures
(c) Rings
(d) Wedding notices

3. What is Lady Bracknell's first question for Jack?
(a) Do you smoke?
(b) Are your parents living?
(c) What are your politics?
(d) What is your income?

4. What German writer is Cecily studying at the top of Act II?
(a) Hegel
(b) Schiller
(c) Goethe
(d) Schopenhauer

5. Where does Cecily tell Algernon he is being sent?
(a) Manchuria
(b) Australia
(c) Belaruse
(d) India

Short Answer Questions

1. Why will Cecily not allow Algernon to read her diary?

2. Which of the following is not a condition that Jack and Algernon consider to kill Ernest?

3. In Act I, what relation does Jack claim to Cecily?

4. How does Algernon describe the day?

5. In terms of playing music, what is Algernon's forte?

(see the answer key)

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