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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mrs. Millamant ask Witwoud and Petulant as they enter the room in Act 3, Scene 3?
(a) If they would sing with Mrs. Marwood.
(b) Where Sir Wilfull is.
(c) If they have stopped arguing.
(d) Who Sir Wilfull is.

2. What else does Foible tell Mrs. Fainall?
(a) Mirabell finds Mrs. Fainall unattractive.
(b) Mrs. Marwood loves Mirabell.
(c) Mrs. Marwood is having an affair.
(d) Mirabell secretly admires Mrs. Marwood.

3. How do we know Lady Wishfort has not read the entire letter?
(a) Because since Mrs. Fainall insists Mincing help her refute adultery charges when the trial begins.
(b) Because Foible reveals secrets about Mrs. Marwood to Mrs. Fainall, and Lady Wishfort is unaware of this problem.
(c) Because Mirabell gets Waitwell out of jail without Lady Wishfort's knowledge.
(d) She doesn't realize her daughter Mrs. Fainall plotted against her.

4. What kind of person is Sir Wilfull Witwoud?
(a) Youthful and crude.
(b) Rude and pretentious.
(c) Genuine but uncultured.
(d) Happy-go-lucky.

5. Why does Sir Wilfull bow out of his marriage arrangement with Mrs. Millamant?
(a) He likes being a free man.
(b) He does not like the city environment of lies and deceit.
(c) He wants to go home.
(d) He enjoys drinking and carousing with his friends.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are poets often fooled?

2. What does the final couplet of the play warn the audience against?

3. What purpose does the interaction between Sir Rowland and Lady Wishfort serve as they discuss marriage?

4. Who told Lady Wishfort about Mirabell's deception?

5. What does the dramatic device of naming characters that are symbolic of their personality traits allow the playwright Congreve to do?

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