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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 does the family have for dessert after the pageant?
(a) Cake.
(b) Biscuits.
(c) Fruit.
(d) Pudding.

2. How do Giles, Isa and William all feel inside while they wait for the pageant to resume?
(a) Desperately unhappy.
(b) Tired.
(c) Content.
(d) Excited.

3. What does Giles think the moral of "Where There's a Will, There's a Way" is?
(a) Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.
(b) Never trust a woman.
(c) The wicked will always be punished.
(d) Take the girl and damn the consequences.

4. What does the narrator say Giles and Isa will do before they sleep?
(a) Have a glass of warm milk.
(b) Tuck their children into bed.
(c) Fight.
(d) Confess their secrets.

5. When the pageant starts again after the intermission, what is the name of the young woman who takes to the stage?
(a) Mabel.
(b) Mary.
(c) Madeline.
(d) Maude.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Reverend observe about the pageant?

2. In the romantic comedy, who does the girl's aunt arrange for her to marry?

3. What does the voice on the megaphone NOT call the audience members?

4. After "Where There's a Will, There's a Way", what is the next theme of the pageant?

5. What is Lady Harraden's second scheme to get Flavinda's father's wealth?

Short Essay Questions

1. What scheme does Lady Harraden come up with involving a con-man?

2. Where does Isa invite William to go with her?

3. After the pageant resumes following the intermission, who takes to the stage? Who particularly likes this portion of the pageant?

4. What does Reverend Streatfield ask the audience for at the end of the pageant? What interrupts him?

5. How does "Where There's a Will, There's a Way" end?

6. Who are the main characters of "A Picnic Party", and who do they find they have in common?

7. What does the second scene of "Where There's a Will, There's a Way" depict?

8. What is used to set the stage for the "Ourselves" section of the pageant?

9. Who does Isa look for as the audience departs?

10. What is the premise of "Where There's a Will, There's A Way"?

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