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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 does Elyot tell Amanda that comforts her?
(a) Elyot tells Amanda that she holds no mystery for him.
(b) Elyote tells Amanda that she is doing the right thing.
(c) Elyot tells Amanda that Sibyl is a good woman.
(d) Elyot tells Amanda that Victor will take care of her.

2. In Act I, where do the honeymooning couples plan to spend their first night together?
(a) The French Riviera.
(b) Lyon.
(c) St. Mortiz.
(d) Paris.

3. What does Sibyl dislike?
(a) Nosy people.
(b) Overly masculine men.
(c) Masculine women.
(d) Overly witty people.

4. How long were Elyot and Amanda married?
(a) They were never married.
(b) Five years.
(c) Two years.
(d) Three years.

5. When fighting with Sibyl, what does Elyot say infuriates him more than anything?
(a) Drunkeness.
(b) Being weak-willed.
(c) Stubborness.
(d) Gullibility.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sibyl want to avoid?

2. How long have Amanda and Elyot been divorced at the start of the play?

3. What does Elyot and Amanda conclude about their past relationship?

4. What memory do Amanda and Elyot reminisce over after their spouses have left in Act 1?

5. What separates the two terraces in the first scene?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Amanda's outlook on the violence in her previous marriage that is so shocking to Victor?

2. Why do Elyot and Amanda both lie to their spouses about the reasons they should leave the hotel instead of just telling the truth?

3. In Act I, Amanda proclaims to Victor that women should hold some mystery. Later, Elyot tells her that she holds no mystery for him and she responds that she is glad. Why?

4. What would be the best way to describe the relationship between each of the married couples?

5. When Elyot implores Sibyl that they must leave the hotel, Sibyl is uncharacteristically firm and stubborn about staying. What happened throughout the act that may have given her more of a backbone?

6. What does Elyot mean when he claims that he and Amanda were too in love for their relationship to last?

7. How can the reader interpret Amanda's statement about a person's private life?

8. Amanda describes her marriage to Elyot as, "two violent acids bubbling about in a nasty little matrimonial bottle." Why would she use those words and what images do they provoke?

9. To Sibyl's dismay, Elyot does not care for her mother and believes that Sibyl married him in part to escape her. What do the differing attitudes about the mother reveal about Sibyl's character?

10. Why do Amanda and Elyot choose Paris to run away to?

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