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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 2, Scene 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why are poets often fooled?
(a) They don't study their critics.
(b) They are fooled into believing that one successful play means the next one will be successful also.
(c) They believe in their work and expect others to understand and like it.
(d) They believe what people tell them to their face.

2. What reason does Fainall give for Mirabell's deception being revealed?
(a) He should have expected Lady Wishfort's friends to tell her.
(b) Mrs. Marwood tried to protect her friend, Lady Wishfort.
(c) He did not return Mrs. Marwood's romantic gestures.
(d) He deserved it.

3. What are Mrs. Fainall and Mrs. Marwood doing to each other in the park?
(a) Testing each other about Mirabell.
(b) Trying to determine if the other is having an affair.
(c) Questioning each other about their opinion of love.
(d) Investigating each other's love affairs.

4. What does Mrs. Marwood claim while talking to Mrs. Fainall?
(a) Lovers are more passionate.
(b) She would rather love and be left than not be loved at all.
(c) Men are cold as husbands.
(d) She is cuckolding her husband with Mirabell.

5. Another dramatic device is used in the final lines of Act 1, Scene 1 when Mirabell hints at a scheme involving Wishfort's maid. This device is known as:
(a) Foreshadowing.
(b) Climax.
(c) Omnipresence.
(d) Denouement.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the tastes of poets determined by?

2. What is Lady Wishfort planning to do?

3. What is Sir Wilfull's relationship with Lady Wishfort?

4. Why does Mrs. Marwood only want to pretend she is cuckolding her husband?

5. What does the prologue do?

(see the answer key)

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