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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What reasoning does Miss Prism initially give Jack that she cannot be his mother?
(a) She is younger than him
(b) She has never been with a man
(c) She has never married
(d) She looks nothing like him

3. How does Lady Bracknell characterize cloak rooms in general?
(a) Stuffy
(b) Dirty
(c) Plebeian
(d) Draughty

4. When does Jack take the name of Ernest?
(a) When he signs legal documents
(b) When he is in town
(c) When he is in the country
(d) When he travels abroad

5. As Cecily and Gwendolen attempt to speak at the same time, who beats time to cue them?
(a) Gwendolen
(b) Cecily
(c) Algernon
(d) Jack

Short Answer Questions

1. What gesture does Miss Prism have at address from Lady Bracknell?

2. According to Lady Bracknell, what two things rarely go together?

3. What did Miss Prism intend to place in her handbag

4. When Algernon arrives, under what name is he traveling?

5. Where in Victoria Station was the handbag with Jack in it discovered?

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