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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mrs. Hardcastle say their mansion looks like?
(a) A barracks.
(b) An inn.
(c) A museum.
(d) A barn.

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

3. What is Tony's reply when Hastings asks how he managed to get the jewels?
(a) I told her I would keep them in my vault.
(b) Ask me no questions and I'll tell you no fibs.
(c) I said if she gave me the jewels I'd marry Constance.
(d) I told her you and Constance wer trying to find them and I should hide them for her.

4. Hardcastle does not recognize the insults at first and attempts to do what?
(a) Advise them about their dress.
(b) Order Marlow and Hastings to sit down.
(c) Enter into a conversation with Marlow and Hastings.
(d) Get them to sit at a table.

5. As the play opens, who are the two characters who enter from the right?
(a) Marlow and Hastings
(b) The maid and Mrs. Hardcastle
(c) Mr. and Mrs. Hardcastle
(d) Kate and Marlow

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kate say about Marlow?

2. As soon as Hardcastle is out of sight, what do the servants begin saying?

3. What has Kate promised her father about her dress in the evenings?

4. What is Marlow's reaction when he sees the menu for the night's supper?

5. How is the scene in the Three Pigeons a satire on sentimental comedy?

(see the answer key)

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