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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Algernon describe Lane at the end of the First Act?
(a) A pessimist
(b) A prig
(c) A modern stoic
(d) A rube

2. What is Algernon enjoying at the end of the Act?
(a) A coffee and a biscuit
(b) A tea and a song
(c) A whiskey and a sanwich
(d) A sherry and a cigarette

3. What has Gwendolyn asked Lady Bracknell to refrain from?
(a) Berating the servants publicly
(b) Pocketing silverware
(c) Abruptly reentering rooms
(d) Quoting scripture

4. In reality, what it is the relationship between Cecily and Jack?
(a) They are siblings
(b) She is his ward
(c) She does not exist
(d) They are engaged

5. According to Lady Bracknell, what two things rarely go together?
(a) Having much and owing little
(b) Making love and making peace
(c) Knowing much and knowing self
(d) Behaving well and feeling well

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What aspect of humanity is Jack sick of?

3. In what town does the First Act take place?

4. To what composer does Algernon compare his Aunt's ring? Tchaikovsky

5. What most attracts Gwendolyn to "Ernest"?

(see the answer key)

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