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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What medical problem is Alceste suspected on having?
(a) Cancer.
(b) Alzheimer.
(c) Depression.
(d) Schizophrenia.

2. What word best describes the duration of Act 2, Scene 2?
(a) Short.
(b) Lengthy.
(c) Long.
(d) Boring.

3. When Oronte reacts to Alceste's opinion about his sonnet, who intervenes?
(a) Celimene's cousin.
(b) Philinte.
(c) Celimene.
(d) Eliante.

4. Based on Act Two, Scene Two, who is the true misanthrope of the play?
(a) Basque.
(b) Acaste.
(c) Celimene.
(d) Alceste.

5. What happens after Oronte's response to Alceste's reaction to his sonnet?
(a) Philinte and Alceste laugh about Oronte.
(b) Philinte tells Alceste he had every right to react that way.
(c) Alceste tells Philinte he actually liked the sonnet.
(d) Philinte and Alceste resume their argument.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Oronte do when he meets Alceste?

2. What does Alceste think about Philinte response to the sonnet?

3. Who is representing that kind of hypocrisy in the beginning of the play, according to the person who complains of hating hypocrisy?

4. During the conversation in Act 2, Scene 4, why do Acaste and Clitandre ridicule Alceste?

5. What do we know about Célimène's past?

Short Essay Questions

1. Give an example of Célimène's hypocrisy in Act 3, Scene 4.

2. There is a social game being played during Act Three, Scene Three. What are two reasons Alceste does not want to play the game?

3. Why do Acaste and Clitandre talk privately in Act 3, Scene 1?

4. How does Philine reason with Alceste when she becomes upset be his insincerity?

5. What are Celimene's feelings when she hears someone at the door?

6. In Act Four, Scene One, Alceste's honesty comes out. What are his remarks about Oronte's sonnet?

7. Alceste has just decided to stay at Celimene's to see which suitor she sends home first. Why is Alceste the first to leave, and what was the reaction of Philinte and Celimene's other suitors?

8. What do Oronte and Alceste have in common?

9. What is Alceste's reaction when Basque says there is someone at the door for him in Act 2, Scene 5?

10. Why does Alceste grieve?

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