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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. What suggestion is made that the landlady might do?
(a) Make them a bed on the pub floor.
(b) Let them share her bed.
(c) Order them out of her house.
(d) Give them three chairs and a bolster in front of the fireplace.

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

3. What does Mr. Hardcastle say the neighbors bring back from their trips to town?
(a) Useless furniture and ugly paintings.
(b) Bills and bad dispositions.
(c) Vanity and affectation.
(d) Things for which they have no use.

4. What does Kate say to Constance about her brother Tony?
(a) She tells Constance that Tony walks in his sleep.
(b) She says that she could almost love him for hating Constance so.
(c) She says that Tony fancies he will marry a duchess.
(d) She says that Tony will do anything to marry Constance.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tony do when he discovers that Marlow and Hastings are hopelessly lost?

2. What is Tony looking forward to in the near future?

3. What sort of sales pitch does Mr. Hardcastle make to his daughter?

4. What is the one thing about the man whose name is Marlow that Kate does not particularly like?

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

(see the answer key)

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