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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Julia fall in love with?
(a) Faulkland's eyes.
(b) Faulkland's tragic romantic fantasies.
(c) Fualkland's words.
(d) Faulkland's hands.

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

3. What does Jack do as he exits the stage?
(a) Curses at his father.
(b) Pushes Fag out of the way.
(c) Slams his fist into his chest.
(d) Yells at Fag.

4. What does Jack decide to do?
(a) Go along with the arrangement and pretend not to know Lydia.
(b) Agree to marry Julia .
(c) Remain a bachelor.
(d) Refuse to marry Lydia.

5. What are some of the names of books Lydia reads?
(a) Stories of Love and Lust .
(b) Lost Women.
(c) Fatal Attraction.
(d) The Fatal Connexion.

6. Who has Thomas brought to Bath?
(a) His footman.
(b) His wife and young child.
(c) Sir Anthony & Madam Julia.
(d) His long time freind Stanley.

7. What must Julia frequently do?
(a) Touch up her makeup.
(b) Assure Faulkland of her love.
(c) Listen to the advice of others.
(d) Go into town.

8. How does the lawyer get the sergeant at law to accept the paper?
(a) He invites the sergeant at law to dinner.
(b) He offers to marry his daughter.
(c) He slips money to the sergeant at law.
(d) He promises to invest in the sergeant at law's business.

9. What does Sir Anthony blame Lydia's attitude on?
(a) poetry books.
(b) gossip rags.
(c) the group of freinds she is with.
(d) her romance novels.

10. Does Sheridan believe all plays should have a moral point of view?
(a) Yes.
(b) Yes because it is the only way to see the errors of our ways.
(c) No.
(d) Sometimes, depending on the subject matter.

11. What does Lucy gives Lucius?
(a) a scarf.
(b) A token of her love.
(c) A note supposedly written by Lydia.
(d) A handkerchief .

12. Where does Act II begin?
(a) In Captain Absolute's lodgings.
(b) In Mrs Malaprop's house.
(c) in Sir Anthony's house.
(d) In the park.

13. What is an empire?
(a) Sir Anthony's estate's name.
(b) A large kingdom.
(c) Who Jack is fighting for in the war.
(d) The name of his dog .

14. Where does Act I, Scene II take place?
(a) The dressing room of Lydia's Aunt Malaprop.
(b) In Julia's bedroom.
(c) In the living room.
(d) In Sir Anthony's town house.

15. What news does Lucy give Fag?
(a) She has many people she bribes.
(b) She would like him to court her.
(c) She is having an affair with Lucius.
(d) Jack Absolute and Beverly are rivals for Lydia's hand.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the attorney hand to the sergeant at law?

2. Finish the quote: "Our suit and ....

3. Why is Faulkland sad?

4. What does disinherit mean?

5. What other word does Mrs. Malaprop's note confuse?

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