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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What qualities is the proposed marriage between Sir Rowland and Lady Wishfort rooted in?
(a) Adultery, deceit, and pretentiousness.
(b) Society's conception of marriage, illicit sex, and lies.
(c) Falsehood, deceit and conformity with society's expectations.
(d) Vanity, greed and lies.

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

3. How do Fainall and Mrs. Marwood decide to reveal Mirabell's plan to Lady Wishfort?
(a) In an anonymous letter.
(b) By talking to her.
(c) Through servants.
(d) Demanding Mirabell confesses.

4. What is Lady Wishfort's reaction to the revelations of Mirabell and Mrs. Fainall?
(a) She praises Mrs. Fainall's prudence.
(b) She is upset.
(c) She thanks her daughter for her deviousness.
(d) She is grateful to her daughter.

5. As Act 3, Scene 3 opens, Mrs. Millamant and Mrs. Marwood are talking. What do we learn from their interaction?
(a) How they feel about Petulant and Witwoud.
(b) Their true characters.
(c) Their beliefs about the 'game' of love.
(d) Their feelings about Mirabell's romances.

6. Why does Lady Wishfort praise Mrs. Marwood at the beginning of Act 5, Scene 2?
(a) Because Marwood disavows Mirabell and Sir Rowland.
(b) Because she believes Marwood is a generous person.
(c) Because Marwood is a cultured lady who dislikes low morals.
(d) Because Marwood revealed Mirabell's plot against her.

7. Why is the Fainall marriage over?
(a) Because Mrs. Marwood told Fainall of his wife's affair with Mirabell.
(b) Because Lady Wishfort feels her daughter could do better.
(c) Because Mrs. Fainall has learned of his affair with Mrs. Marwood.
(d) Because Mrs. Fainall wants a divorce.

8. How is this play properly classified?
(a) As a drama.
(b) As a comedy.
(c) As a satire.
(d) As a comedy of manners.

9. Which character(s) leave the dining room in Act 4, Scene 2?
(a) Lady Wishfort.
(b) Sir Wilfull.
(c) Mrs. Millamant and Mrs. Fainall.
(d) Witwoud.

10. Why is Congreve's play timeless?
(a) It focuses on social issues.
(b) It is a period piece.
(c) It was comic.
(d) It makes witty statements about love and lovers.

11. Who rescues Waitwell after his difficulties?
(a) His master, Mirabell.
(b) Mrs. Millamant.
(c) Foible.
(d) Mrs. Fainall.

12. Why were Witwoud and Petulant arguing at the end of Act 4, Scent 1?
(a) Fainall is trying to keep Mrs. Millamant and Sir Wilfull together.
(b) They dislike Fainall and Sir Wilfull.
(c) It is the result of Fainall's plan to keep Sir Wilfull from obtaining Lady Wishfort's approval.
(d) They were drunk and garrulous.

13. What does Foible tell Mrs. Millamant when she reaches her in Act 4, Scene 1?
(a) That her aunt is almost ready to receive Sir Wilfull.
(b) That her Lady Wishfort wishes to see her.
(c) That Mirabell is waiting to see her.
(d) That she should begin to dress for dinner.

14. What is Lady Wishfort doing as Act 4, Scene 2 commences?
(a) Having tea with her guests.
(b) Chatting casually.
(c) Lecturing Sir Wilfull on his drunkenness.
(d) Playing cards with her guests.

15. What does Mrs. Marwood's letter to Lady Wishfort reveal?
(a) Sir Rowland is actually an errant knight.
(b) The contents of Sir Rowland's black box.
(c) Sir Rowland is an imposter.
(d) The marriage contract is actually a fake.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mrs. Marwood do to stop the argument between Petulant and Sir Wilfull in Act 3, Scene 3?

2. What does Congreve believe about good satirists?

3. Lady Wishfort has arranged for the party to include all of the following except one item. Which one is it?

4. What happens when Mincing enters the room in Act 3, Scene 3?

5. What does Waitwell bring into the room in the last scene?

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