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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who arrives at Celimene's home that Celimene asks to entertain Arsinoe?
(a) Eliante.
(b) Basque.
(c) Philinte.
(d) Alceste.

2. What did Dubois forget in Act 4, Scene 4?
(a) To go to court.
(b) To pick Alceste up.
(c) The letter.
(d) His words.

3. What happens to Alceste?
(a) He may be killed.
(b) He may become ill.
(c) He may be arrested.
(d) He may be evicted.

4. What does Celimene suggest her and Arsinoe should do about the gossip?
(a) Provide the gossipers wrong.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Report to each other when they hear gossip.
(d) Make up stories about the people who gossip.

5. What do the men understand of Celimene?
(a) Her sadness.
(b) Her confusion.
(c) Her rebellion.
(d) Her slience.

6. What does Dubois want Alceste to do?
(a) Leave town.
(b) Decide on diner.
(c) Leave the house.
(d) Pay him.

7. What is Alceste's most prominent trait?
(a) Bluntness.
(b) Shyness.
(c) Arrogance.
(d) Quick temper.

8. Alceste decides to move to the country and plans to ask __________ to go with him.
(a) Dubois.
(b) Celimene.
(c) Philinte.
(d) Eliante.

9. Where Célimène is concerned, who wants to believe only what they want to hear?
(a) Alceste.
(b) Éliante.
(c) Philinte.
(d) Acaste

10. Who is discussing Célimène at the opening of Act 5, Scene 3?
(a) Philinte and Alceste.
(b) Éliante and Arsinoé.
(c) Éliante and Philinte.
(d) Arsinoé and Philinte.

11. Who agrees with Célimène's accusers who think she is a flirt in Act 3, Scene 4?
(a) Basque.
(b) Éliante.
(c) Acaste.
(d) Arsinoé.

12. What word does Célimène call Arsinoé in Act 3, Scene 3?
(a) Extremist.
(b) Geek.
(c) Loser.
(d) A prude.

13. At the end of Act 5, Scene 2, who does Celimene ask for help?
(a) Eliante.
(b) Philinte.
(c) Alceste.
(d) Oronte.

14. Whom does Célimène ask to entertain Arsinoé?
(a) Acaste.
(b) Basque.
(c) Philinte.
(d) Alceste.

15. When Act 5, Scene 1 opens, who are Alceste and Philinte waiting for?
(a) Basque.
(b) Acaste.
(c) Célimène.
(d) Dubois.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Philinte encourage Alceste to do?

2. Instead of excitement, what is Célimène's reaction to Arsinoé in Act 3, Scene 3?

3. Why is Alceste upset in Act Five, Scene One?

4. At the end of the play, which couple ends up together?

5. In Act 3, Scene 3, who announces Celimene's next visitor?

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