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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What comment does the landlord of the Three Pigeons make about Hardcastle's inn?
(a) He says they have good beds and fine wine.
(b) He says they have hard beds and sour wine.
(c) He says there is a rumor that they steal from their guests while they sleep.
(d) He says they get their guests out of bed when the rooster crows each morning.

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

3. What happens when Hardcastle hears a coach drive up in front of the house?
(a) He runs to sit down in the living room.
(b) He rushes the servants through their jobs one more time.
(c) He hurries out to greet Marlow.
(d) He thinks it is the mail coach.

4. When Hardcastle enters the room, how does Marlow indicate he is dismissed?
(a) By asking him to go look after their horses.
(b) By giving him their breakfast order.
(c) By turning to Hastings and ignoring Hardcastle.
(d) By saying he will call if he needs anything.

5. What does Mr. Hardcastle call his home?
(a) Liberty Hall.
(b) Inn and Out.
(c) Upson Downs.
(d) Hardcastle Castle.

6. How interested is Hardcastle in politics?
(a) He is an avid Liberal.
(b) He favors the Tories.
(c) Not at all because it frets him.
(d) He is an avid follower of politics.

7. When does Mrs. Hardcastle insist will be the time for Constance to wear jewels?
(a) They are for looking at and not for wearing.
(b) Only when she has paste copies of them.
(c) When she is in her forties and her beauty needs repairing.
(d) Only when she's presented at court.

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

9. 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 begs her to spend less on clothes.
(c) He offers to send her to the university.
(d) He wants her to learn to cook.

10. What does Mr. Hardcastle say Marlow has to do?
(a) Reconcile contradictions.
(b) Crawl on his hands and knees.
(c) Give up playing jokes on his host.
(d) Work in the inn for one year.

11. What does Tony come running into the room to announce?
(a) That he has Constance's jewels to give her.
(b) That his mother will not release the jewels.
(c) That the barn is on fire.
(d) That he overheard Hastings and Constance planning an elopement.

12. Giving up on following Tony's directions, what does Marlow do?
(a) He suggests they return to London.
(b) He says they can sleep in the carriage.
(c) He asks the landlord for a room for the night.
(d) He tells Hastings that this is why he never stopped to ask directions.

13. When Hastings offers them something already made up, what is Marlow's aside to Hastings?
(a) In Liberty Hall we have only what he pleases.
(b) I wonder how long it has sat there?
(c) I hope this is fit to drink.
(d) Do you suppose the wine is soured?

14. What is Mrs. Hardcastle's state of mind when she returns to the living room?
(a) She is happy because she is giving her garnets to Constance.
(b) She is hysterical believing the jewels to have been stolen.
(c) She is nervous because she can't find the key to her bureau.
(d) She is smug because she thinks she has defeated Constance.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Hardcastle finally get the attention of Marlow and Hastings?

2. What is Mrs. Hardcastle's complaint with her husband?

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

4. What refreshment does Marlow ask of Hardcastle?

5. What names has Mr. Hardcastle been calling Tony for almost a year?

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