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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Marlow's experience with proper young ladies?
(a) None whatsoever because he has been in all-boy schools.
(b) Hardly no experience with ladies of the upper class.
(c) Only experience with his cousins.
(d) A lot of experience that always ends badly.

2. What comment does Mr. Hardcastle make to his daughter, Kate, seeing her dressed in the latest fashion.
(a) What is wrong with the simple country dress?
(b) Have you turned to be like Mrs. Hardcastle?
(c) There's enough silk in that gown to make two.
(d) The indigent world could be clothed out of the trimmings of the vain.

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

4. What does the landlord say about available accommodations?
(a) He says they can sit down and put their heads on a table.
(b) He says they can have the bridal suite.
(c) He says they are welcome to sleep in the barn.
(d) He says there is only one bed with three men in it already.

5. What hinders Marlow from seeking a wife?
(a) His preference for barmaids.
(b) He fears he cannot endure an arranged marriage.
(c) Going through the terrors of a formal courtship.
(d) He has no one to arrange a marriage for him.

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

7. As soon as Hardcastle is out of sight, what do the servants begin saying?
(a) They say they are going back to their old jobs.
(b) They begin arguing over which one is most important.
(c) None of them can remember his or her job.
(d) They say the master has lost his mind.

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

9. How is the scene in the Three Pigeons a satire on sentimental comedy?
(a) The characters are all commoners and not genteel.
(b) The sentiments are only on drinking.
(c) The dialogue is high toned.
(d) The characters serve as a chorus as in Greek comedy.

10. What is Tony looking forward to in the near future?
(a) Coming into his inheritance of 1,500 pounds a year.
(b) Going abraod for an extended vacation.
(c) Getting even with Kate for standing between him and Constance.
(d) Being presented at court.

11. What does Diggory say will be difficult for him?
(a) To see people eating at the table and not be able to eat himself.
(b) To walk without tripping over his feet.
(c) To speak in a refined manner.
(d) To keep his hands off the sherry.

12. What does Tony urge his mother to tell Constance about the jewels?
(a) That she will give them to her when she marries Tony.
(b) That she had them appraised and they are all fake.
(c) That she sold them and the money is spent.
(d) That they are lost and he will bear witness.

13. What argument does the subject of age bring up between the Hardcastles?
(a) Mrs. Hardcastle's age.
(b) How long they have had the same furniture.
(c) The leaks in the roof.
(d) The holes in the carpet.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Constance not believe that Mrs. Hardcastle has lost her jewels?

2. Why is Mrs. Hardcastle trying to make a match between Tony and Constance?

3. What funny comment does Hardcastle make to the audience about the behavior of Marlow and Hastings?

4. What refreshment does Marlow ask of Hardcastle?

5. When Kate agrees to accept the young man if he asks for her hand, how does her father tease her?

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