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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What mythical creature does Jack compare Lady Bracknell to?
(a) A Leviathan
(b) A Harpy
(c) A Gorgon
(d) A Minotaur
2. Who are the most interesting people, according to Algernon?
(a) Those who enjoy your present
(b) Those you haven't met
(c) Those with a willingness to lend money
(d) Those who choose not to speak
3. Where in Victoria Station was the handbag with Jack in it discovered?
(a) A platform
(b) A train compartment
(c) A cloak room
(d) A news kiosk
4. What item does Gwendolen take with her as she leaves?
(a) The bell
(b) The trivet
(c) The cigarette holder
(d) The railway guide
5. How does Algernon describe Lane at the end of the First Act?
(a) A rube
(b) A modern stoic
(c) A prig
(d) A pessimist
6. Where does Lady Bracknell send Gwendolyn while she questions Jack?
(a) The dining room
(b) The carriage
(c) The garden
(d) The study
7. What does Cecily pay no attention to, according to Jack?
(a) His warnings
(b) The advances of boys
(c) Her spending
(d) Her lessons
8. Why does Mr. Thomas Cardew give baby Jack the surname Worthing?
(a) It was the destination of his ticket
(b) It was Cardew's mother's maiden name
(c) It was the first word that came to mind
(d) It is the name of Cardew's favorite footballer
9. What does Jack plan to do in the near future?
(a) Move away from England
(b) Join the Church
(c) Marry off Cecily
(d) Kill off "Ernest"
10. How many of the cucumber sandwiches does Algernon eat?
(a) Half of them
(b) All of them
(c) None of them
(d) One of them
11. What relation is not popular at the present time?
(a) Aunts
(b) Mothers
(c) Fathers
(d) Brothers
12. What is the only thing that allows Algernon to put up with his relatives?
(a) The gossip about his friends
(b) Seeing them leave
(c) Hearing them privately abused
(d) The ocassional loans
13. What political affiliation does Jack claim?
(a) Liberal Unionist
(b) Whig
(c) Social Democrat
(d) Indifferent
14. How old is Jack?
(a) Forty-three
(b) Nineteen
(c) Twenty-nine
(d) Thirty-five
15. In what perpetual state is Algernon, according to Jack?
(a) Lecherous
(b) Gossipy
(c) Hungry
(d) Broke
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Algernon find decidedly unromantic?
2. In Act I, what relation does Jack claim to Cecily?
3. What does Gwendolyn's brother ask all of his girlfriends?
4. To what composer does Algernon compare his Aunt's ring? Tchaikovsky
5. When does Jack take the name of Ernest?
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