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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of Tartuffe's servant?
(a) Laurent.
(b) Mariane.
(c) Filipote.
(d) Dorine.

2. Which two characters converse with one another just after Madame Pernelle leaves in Act 1?
(a) Orgon and Tartuffe.
(b) Elmire and Orgon.
(c) Elmire and Dorine.
(d) Cleante and Dorine.

3. What does Cleante say he fears at the end of Act 1?
(a) That Orgon will break his promise.
(b) That Orgon will disown him.
(c) That Tartuffe will become Orgon's heir.
(d) That Tartuffe will marry Elmire.

4. In what way does Orgon tell his daughter she must earn his love at the beginning of Act 2?
(a) By working.
(b) By devoting herself to content him.
(c) By moving away.
(d) By being happy.

5. What does Dorine tell Mariane and Valere at the very end of Act 2?
(a) "You go off that way, and you go the other."
(b) "Go off together happily."
(c) "Go be happy and conspire."
(d) "Make up and celebrate."

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Madame Pernelle's servant in the play?

2. What does Orgon look in just before starting his conversation with Mariane?

3. Finish the sentence: "But I've just heard word of this marriage, and I trust it is only ____."

4. Who describes Tartuffe as "a base usurper with a power tyrannic"?

5. What is Mariane's response to Valere when he asks her what she thinks of her father's decision for her to marry Tartuffe?

(see the answer key)

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