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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Kate's response as Marlow moves closer to her?

2. Why does Hastings say they must hurry if they plan to elope?

3. What does Marlow say that Kate overhears?

4. What does Hardcastle say that girls like?

5. What does Kate say to herself about Marlow.

Short Essay Questions

1. There is a great deal of shouting at one another about Tony's latest deception. What does Tony say that Mr. Hardcastle has to agree with?

2. What immediate plans do Hastings and Constance make after he tells her Tony has given him the jewels?

3. What is the act Tony and Constance put on for Mrs. Hardcastle's benefit?

4. How does Mrs. Hardcastle react when she reads the real note?

5. Explain how the jewels end back up with Mrs. Hardcastle.

6. What argument does Kate use to calm her father down.

7. Outside in the back of the garden, what surprise does Hasting get when he meets Tony there?

8. After Marlow leaves and Kate enters the room, what is the conversation she has with the two gentlemen?

9. Why have Marlow's servants all gotten drunk to the great displeasure of Mr. Hardcastle?

10. How does Constance attempt to stop Mrs. Hardcastle from reading the note?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Do some research about 18th century English inns. From your research, explain how Mr. Hardcastle's house could have reasonably been taken for an inn. Continue your paper to show how this kind of plot would not work today. Then come up with an idea of how you could mislead someone about a private residence today, e.g., a rooming house.

Essay Topic 2

From the old adage, "Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive," write a paper on the way lies keep complicating the plot of SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER. Use the lies and deceptions on the character of Marlow to address your point. Discuss how there might have been another way to handle Marlow by telling him the truth and asking his help in the elopement. Notice how Hastings' insistence on maintaining the prank is based on his assumption of how Marlow would react to the truth.

Essay Topic 3

Staging of plays in Goldsmith's day was much different from the way it is today. There was no curtain. At the end of a scene, the actors all walked off the stage and the stagehands came in and changed the backdrop and the furniture. SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER has stood the test of time, however, and is still staged today. Write a paper about how you would stage the play and handle the different scene changes.

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