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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is Valentine's brother, Benjamin, during their father's offer of payment?
(a) at sea
(b) in the garden
(c) in the city
(d) at a party

2. What do Valentine and Scandal poke fun at Tattle for?
(a) Tattle's hygiene
(b) Tattle's inexperience with women
(c) Tattle's stutter
(d) Tattle's ever increasing waistline

3. What does Valentine ask for upon greeting his father, Sir Sampson.
(a) a bigger carriage
(b) a new servant
(c) more money
(d) new clothes

4. Who would the two older women like to encourage Miss Prue to have a relationship with instead of Benjamin?
(a) Scandal
(b) Mr. Tattle
(c) Valentine
(d) Sir Sampson

5. What is the name of Angelica's uncle?
(a) Foresight
(b) Frail
(c) Tattle
(d) Trapland

6. What kind of writer does Valentine hope to become?
(a) an essayist
(b) a novelist
(c) a poet
(d) a journalist

7. What is the best word to describe the use of the names of the characters in the play?
(a) clever
(b) definitive
(c) telling
(d) ironic

8. What is the name of Valentine's servant?
(a) Jeremiah
(b) Jeremy
(c) Jason
(d) James

9. What does Mrs. Frail want most of all?
(a) to be wealthy
(b) to be smart
(c) to be young
(d) to be married

10. What does Mrs. Frail associate most with marriage?
(a) a home
(b) pleasure
(c) happiness
(d) security

11. What document does Sir Sampson arrive with in hand?
(a) deed of conveyance
(b) deed of ownership
(c) deed to the property
(d) deed of consideration

12. What s the name of the creditor who is most adamant about being paid?
(a) Mrs. Frail
(b) Tattle
(c) the nurse
(d) Trapland

13. What is the best character description for Mrs. Foresight?
(a) out of touch
(b) brilliant
(c) lazy
(d) quick

14. What is the name of the character who is ordered to stay and see Mrs. Frail and Mrs. Foresight in order to get information about Angelica?
(a) Jeremy
(b) Scandal
(c) Tattle
(d) Benjamin

15. How does Scandal thwart persistent attempts by Trapland to collect his money?
(a) Scandal tells Trapland he is being disrespectful of their time
(b) Scandal tells Trapland the money has already been paid
(c) Scandal tells Trapland he is insulting Valentine's hospitality
(d) Scandal tells Trapland he is being disrepectful of Valentine's new poetic career

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of relationship do Mrs. Foresight and Mrs. Frail have together?

2. What is the name of the woman whom Valentine loves?

3. What will Valentine do to win the love of Angelica?

4. What habit does Valentine have that Jeremy believes has no worthwhile purpose since it does not bring in an income?

5. Why does Foresight not punish Angelica for her quick retort?

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