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

2. What vulgar people does Algernon suggest bandy about there business in cocktail parties?
(a) Actors
(b) Clergy
(c) Politicians
(d) Stockbrokers

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

4. Whom does Jack ask Chasuble to christen?
(a) Cecily
(b) Ernest's body
(c) Jack himself
(d) Gwendolen

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Miss Prism instruct Cecily to read while she is gone?

3. What is Algernon eating at the end of the Act?

4. How many counties can one see from the hills of around the manor?

5. What, according to Miss Prism, does Socialism lead to?

Short Essay Questions

1. What news does Jack bring with him when he returns home from London.

2. After the two women storm off, what is Algernon's attitude?

3. How do Cecily and Gwendolen learn the truth about Ernest?

4. What does Cecily do to anger Gwendolen as they take tea?

5. What argument does Jack make to Algernon about eating in times of despair, and why at the end of Act II?

6. What favor does Jack request of Chasuble?

7. How does Algernon end up paying for Jack's debt in Act II?

8. What reason does Cecily give for not wanting to show Algernon her diary?

9. What has Algernon arranged for later in the afternoon that jack has as well?

10. Describe Chasuble.

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