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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 2, Scene 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is pleased to hear of Snake's employment in this matter?
(a) Charles Surface.
(b) Sir Oliver Surface.
(c) Maria.
(d) Joseph Surface.

2. What is Lady Teazle eager to know?
(a) Whether Sir Peter is having an affair with Mrs. Candour.
(b) How much her husband's net worth really is.
(c) What date her archrival, Mrs. Candour, is moving to Liverpool.
(d) Why Joseph was earnestly entreating Maria to listen to him.

3. How do people's reactions to the subject of the play affect the subject itself?
(a) It makes it easier to get rid of.
(b) It makes it impossible to root out.
(c) People have no reactions to this subject.
(d) It does not affect the subject at all.

4. Who moves off to speak to each other privately at the beginning of Act 2, Scene 2?
(a) Joseph Surface and Maria.
(b) Lady Sneerwell and Snake.
(c) Lady Teazle and Sir Peter.
(d) Charles Surface and Maria.

5. With whom does Lady Teazle keep an appointment?
(a) Mrs. Candour.
(b) Sir Oliver.
(c) Frances Crewe.
(d) Lady Sneerwell.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who enters the gossipers' gathering at Lady Sneerwell's with Lady Teazle?

2. Why is the argument ended?

3. Whom does Sir Peter tell about his problems with Lady Teazle?

4. Sir Peter is concerned that Maria is intent on marrying which of the following characters?

5. Who does Rowley tell Sir Peter has returned from India toward the end of Act 1, Scene 2?

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