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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do the two servants meet?
(a) Ireland.
(b) Bath.
(c) London.
(d) the United States.

2. How does the play begin?
(a) With two lovers quarreling .
(b) In Bath on a sunny afternoon.
(c) At a party in London .
(d) With an attorney bribing a sergeant at law.

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

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

5. Who intervened in Lydia's affairs with Beverly?
(a) Her Unlce.
(b) Jack.
(c) Mrs. Malaprop.
(d) Lucy.

6. What does the play exhibit?
(a) the lyricism of Sheridan's tones.
(b) stubbornness.
(c) Sheridan's humorous writing style.
(d) the shared human condition.

7. Who scolds Lucy on passing notes?
(a) Thomas.
(b) Ledia.
(c) Jack.
(d) Fag.

8. Upon his exit what does Sir Absolute do?
(a) yells at Jack.
(b) Screams at Fag.
(c) threatens to disinherit Jack.
(d) thumps Fag on the head.

9. What is Mrs. Malaprop's pen name?
(a) Deanie.
(b) Dolores.
(c) Darcy.
(d) Delia.

10. What type of love does Julia offer?
(a) fleeting.
(b) fledgling.
(c) meaningless.
(d) unconditional true love.

11. Is Jack interested in his father's description of Lydia?
(a) Jack would rather speak about fighting.
(b) Yes very much so.
(c) No he is not at all.
(d) He acts as though he is not.

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

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

14. What is tangled?
(a) the story.
(b) Lydia's hair.
(c) Sir Anthony's words.
(d) The web Sheridan weaves.

15. What play is this for Richard Sheridan?
(a) His second.
(b) He is not the author of this book .
(c) His first.
(d) His tenth.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lucy contemplate?

2. What does Jack claim his new desire is?

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

4. What does Lucius think Lydia is?

5. What does not exist in this play?

(see the answer keys)

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