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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 3, Scene 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sir Oliver asks Sir Peter about in Act 2, Scene 3?
(a) His job.
(b) The Surface brothers.
(c) Lady Sneerwell.
(d) His marriage.

2. What is Sir Oliver doing when he enters the stage with Rowley?
(a) Blushing.
(b) Cleaning his spectacles.
(c) Wiping sweat off his forehead.
(d) Laughing.

3. To whom does Sir Peter attribute Lady Teazle's shrewish behavior?
(a) Benjamin Backbite.
(b) Lady Sneerwell.
(c) Crabtree.
(d) Snake.

4. What does the subject turn to early in Act 2, Scene 3?
(a) Lady Teazle's affair with Joseph.
(b) The subject does not change in Act 2, Scene 3.
(c) Charles's poverty.
(d) Sir Peter's estrangement from Charles Surface.

5. What do Charles and Joseph Surface have in common relating to Stanley?
(a) They dislike him.
(b) They went to boarding school with him.
(c) They consider him a brother.
(d) They have never met him.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the prologue to the play, what is noted as not being necessary to bring into the world?

2. On what subject matter does Sir Peter contradict every word that has been spoken by Rowley?

3. What does Sir Peter attempt to do when Lady Teazle enters near the end of Act 3, Scene 1?

4. Why is Sheridan attacking this subject with his pen?

5. What was it about Sir Peter that impressed Lady Teazle to the point that she agreed to marry him?

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