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

2. What has Mrs. Marwood overheard in her hiding place while Lady Wishfort questions Foible and after Lady Wishfort leaves the room?
(a) Lady Wishfort's plans.
(b) Mrs. Fainall's affection for her.
(c) Foible's plans.
(d) All of Mirabell's plot.

3. Why does Mirabell criticize Fainall at the chocolate house?
(a) Because Fainall is drinking too much.
(b) Because he is angry with Fainall.
(c) Because he allowed his wife to ignored Mirabell the previous night.
(d) Because he dislikes Fainall's wife.

4. Who told Lady Wishfort about Mirabell's deception?
(a) Mrs. Marwood.
(b) Foible.
(c) Mrs. Millamant.
(d) Fainall.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What word best describes the relationship Fainall has with Mrs. Marwood?

2. What does Foible convince Lady Wishfort to announce about the uncle?

3. What else does Foible tell Mrs. Fainall?

4. Are the tastes of poets random?

5. While drinking chocolate, what else are Mirabell and Fainall doing?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Fainall's character.

2. Explain what Mrs. Marwood learned when she stayed in the closet in Lady Wishfort's dressing room. How does she react?

3. What is the relationship between Waitwell and Foible?

4. 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?

5. Describe Petulant.

6. How does Congreve feel about Mirabell's plot?

7. Why does Congreve believe that 'natural fools' are blessed by fortune?

8. Describe Sir Wilfull Witwoud.

9. Describe what we know about Mrs. Marwood at the beginning of Act 2, Scene 1.

10. Why does Mrs. Marwood tell Lady Wishfort she has seen Foible with Mirabell?

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