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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What lunch has Jack traditionally been enjoying of late?
(a) tea and cucumber sandwiches
(b) water and biscuits
(c) roast beef and lager
(d) pate sandwiches and champagne

2. Upon finding out the Cecily is Mr. Worthing's ward, how old does Gwendolen wish Cecily was?
(a) Forty-two
(b) Sixteen
(c) Eight
(d) Sixty

3. What is Cecily's constant distraction?
(a) Her diary
(b) Her narcolepsy
(c) Her appetite
(d) The gardener

4. What minor character defames the German language at the beginning of the Act?
(a) Lane
(b) Merriman
(c) Mr. Grigsby
(d) Moulton

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

6. Immediately after proposing to Cecily, who does Algernon seek out?
(a) Lady Bracknell
(b) Chasuble
(c) Miss Prism
(d) Jack

7. Whom has Gwendolen already contacted about her betrothal to Ernest?
(a) The Morning Post
(b) Her father
(c) The Census Bureau
(d) Westminster Cathedral

8. Who does Cecily wish would come to the country manor?
(a) Algernon
(b) Gwendolen
(c) Ernest
(d) Jack

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

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

11. How does Algernon describe the day?
(a) The most wonderful Bunbury he has had
(b) The worst Bunbury he has had
(c) A middling Bunbury
(d) Rather hot

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

13. As she copies Algernon's words into her diary, what does Cecily chastise him for doing?
(a) Staring
(b) Mumbling
(c) Laughing
(d) Coughing

14. Which two words do Miss Prism and Cecily confuse as they talk about Jack and his "brother"?
(a) dirth and death
(b) great and grate
(c) night and knight
(d) sow and sew

15. About whom has Algernon - as Ernest - been talking to Cecily?
(a) Lady Bracknell
(b) Miss Prism
(c) Bunbury
(d) Jack

Short Answer Questions

1. For how long does Cecily say she and Ernest have been engaged?

2. How does Cecily have letters from Ernest?

3. Who does Chasuble cite in chastising Algernon for gluttony?

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

5. With what does Grigsby present Algernon?

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