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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Chasuble quote in Act III as proof of a religious revival?
(a) The Times of London
(b) The previous year's Almanack
(c) The Confessions of St. Augustine
(d) The Beggar's Opera

2. What does Miss Prism instruct Cecily to read while she is gone?
(a) German History
(b) Political Economy
(c) Geometic Theory
(d) Verb Conjugation

3. What does Cecily do with the scissors?
(a) Scare off Algernon's advances
(b) Prune a bush while Algernon eats
(c) Cut a rose for Algernon
(d) Cut a thread from the hem of her skirts

4. Why does Algernon suggest Jack not get christened?
(a) He might get a chill
(b) The name "Jack" suits him
(c) It is tedious
(d) It is blashpemous

5. Which of these is not an occasion when Chasuble has preach his sermon on manna?
(a) Weddings
(b) Festal Days
(c) Confirmations
(d) Christenings

6. What does Jack tell Algernon has happened to Bunbury?
(a) He has exploded
(b) He has moved away
(c) He has found a proper nurse
(d) He has recuperated

7. What ailment does Cecily claim Miss prism has?
(a) A general malaise
(b) A headache
(c) An allergy attack
(d) A slight chill

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

9. Next to whose room does Merriman place Algernon's luggage?
(a) Jack's
(b) Cecily's
(c) Miss Prism's
(d) Chasuble's

10. Where does Cecily get her ideas for her diary?
(a) At church
(b) From Miss Prism's reading
(c) In her room
(d) In the garden

11. Why does Gwendolyn decline sugar in her tea?
(a) It is too rich
(b) It is out of style
(c) She fears poisoning
(d) She prefers lemon

12. How does Cecily have letters from Ernest?
(a) Other boys wrote them and she changed the name
(b) Algernon wrote them
(c) Jack wrote them
(d) She wrote them herself

13. Why was Miss Prism's novel never published?
(a) She lost the manuscript
(b) She never finished it
(c) The editor stole the manuscript and published it himself
(d) No publisher would take it

14. What is Cecily's justification that she should not have to learn German?
(a) German is a boorish language
(b) Germany has done nothing for Britain
(c) There is no profit in learning German
(d) Germany is overpopulated

15. When Algernon arrives, under what name is he traveling?
(a) Oscar
(b) Ernest
(c) Bunbury
(d) Jack

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Cecily's constant distraction?

2. What is Miss Prism's first name?

3. How does Jack describe Algernon's eating in times of distress?

4. Upon finding out the Cecily is Mr. Worthing's ward, how old does Gwendolen wish Cecily was?

5. What lunch has Jack traditionally been enjoying of late?

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