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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What did Lady Wishfort say or do that offended Mirabell?
(a) She said that Mirabell should leave.
(b) She ignored Mirabell and talked only with Fainall.
(c) She laughed at him.
(d) She commented that some people overstay their welcome.

4. Why does Congreve tell the audience that they will not be offended to any reference to fools in the play?
(a) Because they are society and he doesn't want to offend society members.
(b) Because the fools he is referring to are other artists.
(c) Because they will understand his intentions.
(d) Because they are not fools themselves.

5. How does Mrs. Marwood answer Fainall when he joins her in the park?
(a) She is tired of arguing with him.
(b) She hates his wife.
(c) She wants to go home.
(d) She is protective of Fainall's honor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What else does Foible tell Mrs. Fainall?

2. What is a cabal?

3. What does Mirabell state that he believes about Mrs. Millamant to Fainall?

4. Are the tastes of poets random?

5. Foible tell Lady Wishfort all but one of the following. Which statement is incorrect?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Mrs. Millamant.

2. Describe Mirabell's character.

3. Describe Mirabell's feelings for Mrs. Millamant when he discusses his love for her with Fainall in Act 1, Scene 2 in the chocolate house.

4. Who is the most important character in the play? Describe him.

5. What is the relationship between Lady Wishfort and Mrs. Marwood?

6. Describe Lady Wishfort.

7. Congreve says the play doesn't contain satire yet the play is full of satirical pictures of different behaviors by the characters. Why do you think he made this statement?

8. In what way(s) is the play different from the usual farce audiences were accustomed to?

9. What do you think that Mirabell's scheme to marry Mrs. Millamant will entail?

10. In Act 3, Scene 1, Lady Wishfort is excited about the arrival of Sir Rowland in the evening. In a short paragraph, describe the Sir Rowland plot as shown up to this point. What do you think will happen to Sir Rowland and Lady Wishfort?

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