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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sir Lucius hear as he sees Jack approaching?
(a) Jack talking to women.
(b) Jack drinking at a bar.
(c) Jack speaking to himself.
(d) Jack swearing in front of children .

2. Why is Faulkland afraid to open Julia's letter?
(a) He thinks she will not forgive him.
(b) Julia never wrote a letter .
(c) He is scared she may be dismissing him.
(d) He thinks she will forgive too easily.

3. What does Sir Anthony believe about Julia and Faulkland?
(a) Faulkland will not change.
(b) That Julia will mend Faulkland.
(c) Jack would have been a better husband.
(d) Faulkland will leave Julia.

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

5. How do the women stop the fight?
(a) They let the men fight .
(b) They throw themselevs in front of others .
(c) Lydia claims she will only marry Jack.
(d) They appeal to the men with their womanly wiles.

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

7. What does Acres call David?
(a) a close friend.
(b) a coward.
(c) a good servant.
(d) a brother.

8. Why does Julia take Faulkland back?
(a) Because she sees he is not so sullen at the duel.
(b) He begs her for forgiveness.
(c) He is sullen.
(d) She wants to be with him.

9. What is amazing in this scene?
(a) That no one is speaking up to understand what is going on.
(b) Where the duel is taking place.
(c) How Jack can constantly surpirse his father .
(d) That a smart man like Sir Anthony can always be fooled .

10. What does Lydia throw at Jack?
(a) Her necklace Jack gave her.
(b) The picture she thought was of Beverly.
(c) All of Jack's letters.
(d) One of her romance novels.

11. Where will the duel be held?
(a) King's Mead Fields.
(b) Tower Meadow.
(c) Stone Park.
(d) Hallows Hills.

12. When is the duel planned for?
(a) a week from now
(b) 2 weeks from now.
(c) This evening.
(d) In the morning.

13. What does Lucius mention while leaving the scene?
(a) He should get his hair cut.
(b) He hates Jack.
(c) He must continue to woo his lady.
(d) That he should also duel with Beverly.

14. Was Sheridan familiar with courting practices of the time?
(a) Yes, he eloped with a woman he loved.
(b) Yes, he married Elizabeth Linsely .
(c) No, he was forced into marriage.
(d) No, he never married.

15. What don't the two men realize?
(a) They both hate Jack.
(b) They are courting the same woman.
(c) They both are in love with Julia.
(d) They have no idea who Faulkland is.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who writes the challenge to Beverly?

2. What do the women decide to do?

3. How does Lydia feel about the situation?

4. Where does Scene 4 take place?

5. Has Jack's ruse failed?

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