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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 4, Scene 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who are the two women in Act One, Scene One waiting for?
(a) Alceste and Philinte.
(b) Celimene and Philinte.
(c) Celimene and her cousin.
(d) Oronte and Celimene.

2. How does Oronte chastise his subject in the sonnet?
(a) His subject gives him false hope.
(b) He discusses his love lost.
(c) His subject belittles him.
(d) He refuses to read the sonnet.

3. Why does Alceste say love is not decided by reason?
(a) Alceste plans to break up with Celimene.
(b) Philinte should be in love with Eliante, but is not.
(c) Alceste knows Eliante is a better match for him than Celimene.
(d) Love is an unreasonable thing.

4. What does Alceste think about honesty?
(a) Honesty is not important.
(b) That you should never be honest if it hurts someone's feelings.
(c) That you should always be honest.
(d) That you should be honest most times.

5. Who is representing that kind of hypocrisy in the beginning of the play, according to the person who complains of hating hypocrisy?
(a) Acaste.
(b) Célimène.
(c) Alceste.
(d) Philinte.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Alceste leave in Act One, Scene Three?

2. Why does Celimene like visitors?

3. Who is Clitandre?

4. What is Alceste's opinion of Oronte's work?

5. How does Alceste react to the news of yet another visitor?

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