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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Lady Bracknell's first question for Jack?
(a) What are your politics?
(b) Do you smoke?
(c) Are your parents living?
(d) What is your income?

2. What attribute of Ernest does Cecily love?
(a) His name
(b) His hair
(c) His taste
(d) All of the above

3. According to Lady Bracknell, how with Gwendolyn know when she is engaged?
(a) It will be in the papers
(b) Lady Bracknell will inform her
(c) She will be wearing a veil
(d) Hell will have frozen

4. How many counties can one see from the hills of around the manor?
(a) Six
(b) Four
(c) Three
(d) Five

5. Why do servants steal more champagne in the houses of bachelors?
(a) The wine is better
(b) There is less to do
(c) The servants are never as drunk as their masters
(d) The men are less observant

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Algernon claim he left London before Monday?

2. About whom has Algernon - as Ernest - been talking to Cecily?

3. What does Chasuble quote in Act III as proof of a religious revival?

4. When the Cecily and Gwendolen both discover that each is engaged to Ernest, what do they compare?

5. Upon finding out the Cecily is Mr. Worthing's ward, how old does Gwendolen wish Cecily was?

(see the answer key)

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