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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What helps shape society?
(a) Money.
(b) Love.
(c) Power.
(d) Class struggle.

2. The play deals with what conflict?
(a) Windmills.
(b) Oedipus Complex.
(c) Male and female interaction.
(d) God.

3. One of the characters compares marriage to which of the following?
(a) Blisters.
(b) Slavery.
(c) Bliss.
(d) Ox and yoke.

4. Shaw has not relied on other writers':
(a) Permission.
(b) Plots.
(c) Style.
(d) Applause.

5. What word most accurately expresses the opinion of the author's detractors?
(a) Reprobate.
(b) Fool.
(c) Prophet.
(d) Academician.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Ramsden's first name?

2. Whose dowry might be at stake?

3. Who wrote THE REVOLUTIONIST'S HANDBOOK?

4. Which topic does Shaw claim to have failed when writing a play?

5. Who spouts contradictory opinions on the proposed marriage?

(see the answer key)

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