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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Mrs. Marwood only want to pretend she is cuckolding her husband?
(a) Because he will suffer longer if he can't prove it.
(b) Because she thinks he loves Mrs. Millimant.
(c) Because he will suffer longer if he can't prove it.
(d) Because she thinks he doesn't love her any more.

2. Which one of the follow was not part of Mirabell's plan?
(a) Mirabell wrote a song about Wishfort.
(b) Mirabell reported that she was pregnant.
(c) Mirabell wrote a lampoon.
(d) Mirabell appealed to Wishfort's vanity.

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

4. Are the tastes of poets random?
(a) Perhaps.
(b) Sometimes.
(c) Yes.
(d) No.

5. Why does Fainall say he married his wife?
(a) For love.
(b) For her social position.
(c) For her money.
(d) For her good breeding.

6. What does Lady Wishfort do when she enters her dressing room?
(a) She lets Marwood out and apologizes.
(b) She apologizes and asks her to accompany her to dinner.
(c) She dresses for dinner and sends Mrs. Marwood down ahead of her.
(d) She invites Mrs. Marwood to stay for dinner.

7. What does Foible do when she enters Lady Wishfort's dressing room?
(a) She announces Sir Rowland.
(b) She helps Lady Wishfort dress.
(c) She asks Mrs. Marwood to keep the men company.
(d) She says Witwoud and Petulant have arrived.

8. What word best describes the relationship Fainall has with Mrs. Marwood?
(a) Filled with underlying rage.
(b) Troubled.
(c) Loving and tender.
(d) Unhappy.

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

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

11. What is Lady Wishfort planning to do?
(a) Marry Mrs. Millamant to Mirabell's uncle.
(b) Divorce Fainall.
(c) Disinherit Mirabell.
(d) Marry Mirabell.

12. What is Lady Wishfort's reaction to Mrs. Marwood's suggestion about Sir Wilfull?
(a) She disagrees.
(b) She agrees, but thinks they should wait until after her marriage.
(c) She agrees.
(d) She isn't sure.

13. How does Witwoud describe Petulant?
(a) As a monster similar to Caliban.
(b) As a blockhead.
(c) As a person lacking breeding.
(d) As humorless.

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

15. What does Fainall claim about Mrs. Marwood?
(a) She is really angry with him.
(b) She is concerned about her reputation.
(c) She is jealous of his wife spending time with Mirabell.
(d) She is bored in his company.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the tastes of poets determined by?

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

3. Where are Mrs. Fainall and Mrs. Marwood as Act 2, Scene 1 opens?

4. Why does Mirabell criticize Fainall at the chocolate house?

5. Why does Mirabell believe the scheme to deceive Lady Wishfort is necessary?

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