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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In addition to Benjamin, who is also arriving in the city?
(a) a new lover for Valentine
(b) Mrs. Frail's mother
(c) Miss Prue
(d) Angelica

2. What is the best character description for Miss Prue?
(a) cunning
(b) sensitive
(c) naive
(d) spoiled

3. Who does Mrs. Frail want to marry?
(a) Valenine
(b) Benjamin
(c) Foresight
(d) Scandal

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

5. Why does Mrs. Foresight chastise Mrs. Frail?
(a) for the overbearing tone in her voice
(b) for her overweight frame
(c) for her indiscriminate behavior in public
(d) for her poor choice in wardrobe

6. Where does Miss Prue come from?
(a) church
(b) the country
(c) Paris
(d) London

7. Who is Valentine's best friend?
(a) Tattle
(b) Jeremy
(c) Mrs. Frail
(d) Scandal

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

9. Why does Foresight not punish Angelica for her quick retort?
(a) because Angelica is know to become violent
(b) because Angelica's fortune is hers alone
(c) because Angelica caught him with the nurse
(d) because Angelica threatened him

10. How much money has Valentine's father offered him to sign over his inheritance to Benjamin?
(a) ten thousand pounds
(b) five thousand pounds
(c) four thousand pounds
(d) three thousand pounds

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

12. Who does Mr. Tattle seduce?
(a) Miss Prue
(b) Mrs. Foresight
(c) Angelica
(d) Mrs. Frail

13. What is the name of the character that is plotting to separate Benjamin and Miss Prue for her own gain?
(a) Mrs. Frail
(b) the nurse
(c) Angelica
(d) Mrs. Foresight

14. What does Foresight swear he will do upon the quick retort from Angelica?
(a) make sure her reputation is ruined
(b) make sure her family knows of her quick tongue
(c) make sure her carriage does not get fixed
(d) make sure Valentine remains poor

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of family does Angelica come from?

2. What word best describes the seduction of Miss Prue?

3. What document does Sir Sampson arrive with in hand?

4. What is the name of Valentine's servant?

5. What is the best character description for Mrs. Foresight?

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