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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is Fag headed at the end of the scene?
(a) to gamble and drink.
(b) To see Faulkland.
(c) He goes to tell his master who is "rival" is.
(d) to see his lover.

2. What is Lucy receiving bribes for doing?
(a) Creating stories about the people around her.
(b) Having an affair with Jack.
(c) Keeping secrets .
(d) Plotting Lydia/Beverly elopement and delivering messages from Beverly to Lydia.

3. What is Sir Absolute's ward's name?
(a) Jennifer.
(b) Samantha.
(c) Julia.
(d) Lydia.

4. What does disinherit mean?
(a) To lose friends.
(b) To gain friends .
(c) For one to lose an inheritance.
(d) For one to gain money.

5. Who exists the stage first?
(a) the lawyer.
(b) they exits together.
(c) the sergeant .
(d) no one exits.

6. Why is Sir Absolute in Bath?
(a) To see his son.
(b) To heal a case of gout.
(c) To see his wife.
(d) To overcome a fever.

7. How does Act 3, Scene 2 begin?
(a) Jack's study.
(b) Julia's dressing room.
(c) Sir Anthony';s study.
(d) Sir Anthony's receiving room.

8. What makes Julia cry?
(a) Her brother's death.
(b) Jack's inability to love her.
(c) Faulkland's hounding.
(d) Faulkland's indifference.

9. Who is Captain Absolute courting?
(a) Linda Languish.
(b) Lydia Languish.
(c) Lucy Languish.
(d) Lucinda Languish.

10. What is an arranged proposal?
(a) An arranged love match.
(b) Whe two people love each other very much.
(c) Marrying someone a person does not know or love.
(d) When two people decide to marry.

11. What does the sergeant at law claim when he is given this item?
(a) He would like to quit his job.
(b) He would like another peice of chocolate.
(c) He wishes for more money .
(d) That he cannot see the paper.

12. What does Sheridan invite the audience to do?
(a) laugh.
(b) create a time of enjoyment.
(c) question their states of mind.
(d) confuse their morals.

13. Who has Lydia lost?
(a) her mother.
(b) Aunt Malaprop.
(c) Ensign Beverly.
(d) her dog.

14. Who does the sergeant at law present the play to?
(a) the audience.
(b) the reader.
(c) his freinds.
(d) very wealthy people.

15. Who is Sir Absolute's son?
(a) Captain Jefferson.
(b) Captain Jacob.
(c) Captain Jack.
(d) Captain John.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Julia discuss in the second part of the prologue?

2. What does Jack decide to do?

3. Why is Mr Faulkland so sad?

4. Why is Julia happy?

5. How does the play begin?

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