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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Cecily have letters from Ernest?
(a) She wrote them herself
(b) Algernon wrote them
(c) Other boys wrote them and she changed the name
(d) Jack wrote them

2. What reasoning does Miss Prism initially give Jack that she cannot be his mother?
(a) She looks nothing like him
(b) She has never been with a man
(c) She is younger than him
(d) She has never married

3. Why does Lady Bracknell return to the manor house in the last moment of the play?
(a) She has fallen ill
(b) She forgot her handbag
(c) She missed her train
(d) She changes her mind about Gwendolen's marriage

4. Where does Cecily tell Algernon he is being sent?
(a) Manchuria
(b) Belaruse
(c) Australia
(d) India

5. What does Lady Bracknell describe as a "delicate exotic fruit?"
(a) Social bearing
(b) Love
(c) Ignorance
(d) Her daughter

Short Answer Questions

1. What participle does Jack inadvertently substitute for "married" when he attempts to say "We must get married at once"?

2. What is the topic of the lecture Lord Bracknell is attending?

3. Why does Algernon suggest Jack not get christened?

4. When Algernon arrives, under what name is he traveling?

5. What is Algernon enjoying at the end of the Act?

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