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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the different marriages introduced in the play seem to be motivated by?
(a) Love.
(b) Greed.
(c) The need to protect their reputations.
(d) Social convenience.

2. Who are Witwoud and Petulant?
(a) Mrs. Millamant's servants.
(b) Lady Wishfort's servants.
(c) Followers of Mrs. Millamant.
(d) Important gentlemen of this social group.

3. What does the prologue do?
(a) Challenges the audience to try something new.
(b) Introduces Congreve and his play.
(c) Instructs the audience on how to react to the play.
(d) Limits criticism of the play.

4. What was Mrs. Millamant's response to her aunt's statement?
(a) She is offended.
(b) She agrees with her.
(c) She laughs, too.
(d) She feels hurt for Mirabell.

5. What does Mrs. Marwood mean when she tells Lady Wishfort she was entertained by what she heard?
(a) She could hardly contain her anger.
(b) She found the situation hilariously funny.
(c) She was offended.
(d) She was amused.

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

7. What news does the footman bring Mirabell at the chocolate house?
(a) That Waitwell and Foible are married.
(b) That his coachman, Waitwell, is waiting with his carriage.
(c) That Foible wanted to speak to him.
(d) That Waitwell and Foible have run away together.

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

9. Why did Waitwell marry Foible?
(a) Because he loved her.
(b) Because he wants to start a family.
(c) So that he couldn't marry Wishfort.
(d) Because she was pregnant.

10. With respect to Sir Wilfull, what does Mrs. Marwood suggest to Lady Wishfort?
(a) Sir Wilfull is a country bumpkin.
(b) Sir Wilfull will make an excellent husband for Mrs. Millamant.
(c) Sir Wilfull is a drunkard.
(d) Sir Wilfull is going to continue his travels.

11. What is the second kind of fool blessed by?
(a) Fortune.
(b) Upbringing.
(c) Religious beliefs.
(d) How their lives evolve over time.

12. What happens if Mirabell's uncle marries and has a child?
(a) The uncle will gain his statue in society.
(b) Mirabell will lose his inheritance.
(c) Mirabell will be penniless.
(d) Fainall will receive a fee for helping the uncle.

13. How does Congreve use satire in the prologue?
(a) He makes fun of the audience.
(b) He states the play does not contain satire, but it is full of satirical pictures of the different behaviors of the characters.
(c) He suggests that farce is outdated.
(d) He uses theatrical devices to enhance satire.

14. Why did Mirabell and Mrs. Fainall choose Fainall as her husband?
(a) Because he was a liar and a cheat with a good reputation.
(b) Because she loved him.
(c) Because he loved her.
(d) Because he was old and would probably die soon.

15. How does Mrs. Marwood attack Fainall when he angers her?
(a) By saying he stole from her.
(b) By saying he told lies about her to Lady Wishfort.
(c) By saying he wrecked her reputation.
(d) By saying he has deceived her.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the least important male character in the play?

2. What does Fainall comment about the gathering the previous evening at Lady Wishfort's?

3. All of the following are true except one. As Mrs. Marwood discovers Mirabell's plot, she ______ .

4. Why did Mirabell pretend to love Lady Wishfort?

5. What does the scene where Mrs. Marwood is left in the closet reveal about her?

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