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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 does Lady Bracknell describe as a "delicate exotic fruit?"
(a) Social bearing
(b) Ignorance
(c) Her daughter
(d) Love

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

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

4. How old is Cecily?
(a) Fourteen
(b) Twenty-five
(c) Thirty-two
(d) Eighteen

5. How old is Jack?
(a) Nineteen
(b) Forty-three
(c) Twenty-nine
(d) Thirty-five

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Lady Bracknell send Gwendolyn while she questions Jack?

2. Why do servants steal more champagne in the houses of bachelors?

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

4. What does Jack plan to do in the near future?

5. What aspect of humanity is Jack sick of?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why are there no cucumber sandwiches at the Algernon's when Lady Bracknell arrives?

2. Name a few of Lady Bracknell's requirements for a suitable bachelor.

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

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

5. How is it that Jack does not know who his parents are?

6. How did Cecily become Jack's ward?

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

8. Who is Bunbury?

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

10. What, according to Jack and Algernon, is the difference between mothers and fathers in modern society?

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