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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By firing back at the audience, what does Congreve do?
(a) He lectures them about their lack of artistic understanding.
(b) He pretends to admire them while he really hates them.
(c) He infuriates the audience.
(d) He defends his decision to add some unusual and new elements to the play.

2. What does Fainall comment about the gathering the previous evening at Lady Wishfort's?
(a) Mrs. Millamant has another lover.
(b) Mrs. Millamant was only obeying her aunt's wishes.
(c) Everyone knows that Mrs. Millamant is unhappy with Mirabell.
(d) Witwoud and Petulant are only trying to woo Mrs. Millamant.

3. Though Mrs. Millament doesn't act it, Mrs. Millamant actually ____________ Mirabell.
(a) Bores.
(b) Loves.
(c) Frustrates.
(d) Dislikes.

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

5. Act 2, Scene 2 reveals the reason Mrs. Fainall married her husband. What was the reason?
(a) To protect her reputation.
(b) To acquire her husband's money.
(c) Because she loved him.
(d) To legitimize her pregnancy.

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

7. The actor who reads the prologue also plays which character?
(a) Mirabell.
(b) Sir Wilfull.
(c) Sir Rowland.
(d) Fainall.

8. What are Mrs. Fainall and Mrs. Marwood doing at the beginning of Act 2, Scene 2?
(a) Discussing men while they walk.
(b) Talking about Mrs. Millamant.
(c) Discussing their husbands.
(d) Discussing their lovers.

9. Why does Congreve choose this symbol of cosmetics?
(a) He wanted to show how people change themselves because of vanity.
(b) He believed that make-up is immoral.
(c) He felt it served no purpose in life.
(d) He wanted to acknowledge how beautiful it made women.

10. Why is eavesdropping so successful in Act 3, Scene 1?
(a) Because the characters stand around and talk about their plans.
(b) Because the characters needs to tell the audience what is going to happen next.
(c) Because the scene is necessary to add more intrigue to the play.
(d) Because Mrs. Marwood needs to be told off.

11. What is a chocolate house?
(a) A shop serving only pastries made of chocolate.
(b) A meeting place for women.
(c) A place for men to meet.
(d) A new type of coffee shop celebrating the discovery of chocolate.

12. What is a prologue?
(a) A part which comes before the audience arrives.
(b) A short synopsis of the coming play.
(c) A teaser which will make the audience want to stay for the whole performance.
(d) An introduction.

13. For what purpose are the cosmetics used in Act 3, Scene 1?
(a) As a symbol of loose morals.
(b) As a symbol of how people cover themselves up.
(c) As a way to disguise age.
(d) As a device to mask one's feelings.

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

15. What does Foible tell Mrs. Fainall when Lady Wishfort leaves the dressing room?
(a) She wed Waitwell.
(b) She has hidden Mrs. Marwood in the closet.
(c) She has angered Lady Wishfort.
(d) She insulted Mrs. Marwood.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a cabal?

2. What does the prologue do?

3. Mirabell's plan involves ________ Lady Wishfort.

4. Why is Fainall bored when talking with Mirabell in the chocolate house?

5. Why are poets often fooled?

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