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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Mrs. Hardcastle's complaint with her husband?
(a) He has no taste in furniture.
(b) They do not travel to town now and then.
(c) He doesn't dress for dinner.
(d) They never have company come to the house.

2. Who does Constance say Marlow is?
(a) The son of her father's dearest friend.
(b) A royal in line for the throne.
(c) The most intimate friend of her admirer, Mr. Hastings.
(d) The most eligable bachelor in London.

3. What is so amusing about the way Kate and her father describe Marlow?
(a) They agree completely about Marlow.
(b) They are not listening to each other.
(c) It sounds as though they are not talking about the same man.
(d) They can hardly contain their laughter at the man.

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

5. How does Hardcastle finally get the attention of Marlow and Hastings?
(a) By kicking them.
(b) By mentioning sex.
(c) By talking louder.
(d) By firing a pistol.

Short Answer Questions

1. How interested is Hardcastle in politics?

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

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

4. What is Tony's one word admonition to the landlord of the pub?

5. Of what does Marlow envy Hastings?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the argument Tony has with Mrs. Hardcastle in front of Constance and Hastings.

2. Describe the landlord's reaction when Tony gives Marlow and Hastings directions to an inn which he calls Buck's Head.

3. What clue does the landlord give in the muttered line that Tony is a damn'd mischievous son of a whore?

4. How does the dialogue of the opening scene give the audience a clue as to Mrs. Hardcastle's character?

5. Explain why Tony is so sure he can handle Mrs. Hardcastle.

6. Explain the hilarity when Mrs. Hardcastle discovers that the jewels are not where she left them.

7. Using Mr. Hardcastle's speech at the beginning of act 3, define and explain the soliloquy.

8. How is Mr. Hardcastle different from his wife?

9. Explain Tony's trickery with Mrs. Hardcastle when Constance is pressing her to relinquish her jewels.

10. Describe how Tony sees his chance to get back at his stepfather when the landlord says there are two gentlemen looking for Hardcastle's house.

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