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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What participle does Jack inadvertently substitute for "married" when he attempts to say "We must get married at once"?
(a) Plastered
(b) Stationed
(c) Buried
(d) Christened

3. Where does Algernon suggest dining instead of the Savoy?
(a) Trader Vic's
(b) Willis's
(c) Edmund's
(d) Conrad's

4. What is the only thing that allows Algernon to put up with his relatives?
(a) The gossip about his friends
(b) Seeing them leave
(c) The ocassional loans
(d) Hearing them privately abused

5. Who are the most interesting people, according to Algernon?
(a) Those with a willingness to lend money
(b) Those who choose not to speak
(c) Those you haven't met
(d) Those who enjoy your present

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of these is not a suggestion that Algernon makes as to what they should do after dinner?

2. What does Cecily pay no attention to, according to Jack?

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

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

5. What does Jack offer to present to Lady Bracknell in lieu of his parentage?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Algernon's stated opinion of love and marriage in Act I?

2. Why does Algernon discreetly write down Jack's country address on his cuff?

3. Describe Algernon and Jack's conversation concerning Cecily and Gwendolen.

4. How did Cecily become Jack's ward?

5. What is Lady Bracknell's response to the story of Jack's adoption?

6. How does Jack Worthing's cigarette case betray his identity to Algernon?

7. Why doe Jack go by the name of Ernest in London?

8. Describe Algernon Moncrieff.

9. What does Gwendolen love so much about the name Ernest?

10. What orders does Algernon give Lane at the end of the First Act?

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