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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1, Scene 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Mrs. Hardcastle dote on?
(a) Tony Lumpkin, her son by her late first husband.
(b) Miss Neville, Mrs. Hardcastle's niece.
(c) Young Marlow, Sir Charles Marlow's son.
(d) Kate, Mr. Hardcastle's daughter.

2. What has Kate promised her father about her dress in the evenings?
(a) That she will only dress up in the evenings.
(b) That she will wear a dancing costume in the evenings.
(c) That she will wear simply country housewife clothes.
(d) That she will not wear jewelry in the evenings.

3. What sort of sales pitch does Mr. Hardcastle make to his daughter?
(a) He wants her to learn to cook.
(b) He offers to send her to the university.
(c) He begs her to spend less on clothes.
(d) He praises a young man who is coming to visit.

4. What is Tony's composition he leads at the Three Pigeons?
(a) A pledge of allegiance.
(b) A drinking song.
(c) A raunchy limerick.
(d) An epic poem.

5. Before offering to give directions to Marlow and Hastings, what does Tony want to know?
(a) If they have servants traveling with them.
(b) If they have an invitation to the Hardcastle mansion.
(c) If they need to see Hardcastle right away.
(d) If they know where they are and how they got there.

Short Answer Questions

1. Anxious to be off, what does Marlow ask Tony?

2. What does Mr. Hardcastle say the neighbors bring back from their trips to town?

3. What suggestion is made that the landlady might do?

4. What is Mr. Hardcastle's response to Mrs. Hardcastle's complaining that he only likes old things.

5. What joke does Tony play on Hastings and Marlow?.

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