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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Sir Lucius looking for?
(a) Lydia.
(b) Mrs Malaprop.
(c) Captain Absolute.
(d) Sir Absolute.

2. What does Jack propose to Mrs. Malaprop?
(a) For Lydia and Beverly to try to elope.
(b) That he and Mrs Malaprop elope.
(c) That he challenge Beverly to a duel.
(d) For Jack and Lydia to elope.

3. What is Jack ready to do?
(a) Leave the country.
(b) Cut his own throat.
(c) Court Julia.
(d) Beg for Lydia to come back to him.

4. What does the audience begin to wonder?
(a) How the three men will resolve their love quarrels.
(b) Why Lydia does not choose her own husband.
(c) Why the three men do not communicate better.
(d) Why Jack has told the truth.

5. What time is the duel set for?
(a) it is not happening.
(b) 6:00 pm.
(c) 9:00 am .
(d) 12:00 am.

6. What did Sherdian experience in his own life?
(a) the love of women.
(b) dueling.
(c) writing poetry.
(d) sickness.

7. What does Faulkland tell Julia once they are together?
(a) He does not love her.
(b) He needs to help Jack in a duel.
(c) That he has killed a man and must flee the country.
(d) He wants to leave England .

8. What can't Lydia see through her anger?
(a) She has no imagination.
(b) She is too influenced by what she reads.
(c) That Jack loves her .
(d) That Beverly and Jack are actually the same man.

9. How does Julia react to Faulkland's fake news?
(a) She calls of the engagement.
(b) She promises to be with him no matter what.
(c) Runs home.
(d) tells Lydia.

10. Has Sheridan ever killed someone?
(a) No.
(b) Yes in a duel.
(c) Yes he posioned his wife.
(d) No he was never in a duel.

11. What do all of the scenes foreshadow?
(a) the resolution to the story.
(b) the begining of a new story.
(c) the climax of the story.
(d) the middle of the play.

12. Which scene is the most comical?
(a) Scene 3.
(b) Scene 1.
(c) Scene 4.
(d) Scene 2.

13. Why does Jack refuse to speak?
(a) Jack is not in this scene.
(b) He feels self conscience.
(c) His throat hurts.
(d) Because Lydia will know that Jack is Beverly.

14. Why is Mrs. Malaprop concerned that Lydia is speaking well of Beverly?
(a) Because she believes Jack and Beverly are two different people.
(b) She wants Lydia to marry Jack.
(c) She is not concerned at all.
(d) She hates Beverly.

15. What does Julia beg of Lydia?
(a) Not to dismiss Jack because of his honesty.
(b) For Lydia to love Acres.
(c) To help Lydia and Jack get back together.
(d) To like Faulkland.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lucius start with Jack?

2. What does Sir Anthony believe about Julia and Faulkland?

3. What word does Mrs. Malaprop misuse in this section?

4. What does Lucius prompt Acres to do?

5. What don't the two men realize?

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