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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What lunch has Jack traditionally been enjoying of late?
(a) tea and cucumber sandwiches
(b) roast beef and lager
(c) water and biscuits
(d) pate sandwiches and champagne

2. Whom has Gwendolen already contacted about her betrothal to Ernest?
(a) The Census Bureau
(b) Westminster Cathedral
(c) The Morning Post
(d) Her father

3. What vulgar people does Algernon suggest bandy about there business in cocktail parties?
(a) Actors
(b) Clergy
(c) Politicians
(d) Stockbrokers

4. Why does Algernon suggest Jack not get christened?
(a) The name "Jack" suits him
(b) He might get a chill
(c) It is blashpemous
(d) It is tedious

5. What does Miss Prism recommend to Chasuble?
(a) That he marry
(b) That he refrain from dairy
(c) That he take up learning German
(d) That they not walk together anymore

6. When Algernon arrives, under what name is he traveling?
(a) Ernest
(b) Bunbury
(c) Jack
(d) Oscar

7. How does Algernon describe the day?
(a) The most wonderful Bunbury he has had
(b) Rather hot
(c) The worst Bunbury he has had
(d) A middling Bunbury

8. Why was Miss Prism's novel never published?
(a) The editor stole the manuscript and published it himself
(b) She never finished it
(c) She lost the manuscript
(d) No publisher would take it

9. What is Algernon eating at the end of the Act?
(a) Pate sandwiches
(b) Muffins
(c) Sardines
(d) Cake

10. With what does Grigsby present Algernon?
(a) A bible
(b) A bill
(c) His luggage
(d) A sherry

11. What does Miss Prism instruct Cecily to read while she is gone?
(a) German History
(b) Political Economy
(c) Geometic Theory
(d) Verb Conjugation

12. Which two words do Miss Prism and Cecily confuse as they talk about Jack and his "brother"?
(a) dirth and death
(b) great and grate
(c) night and knight
(d) sow and sew

13. When the Cecily and Gwendolen both discover that each is engaged to Ernest, what do they compare?
(a) Wedding notices
(b) Diaries
(c) Rings
(d) Figures

14. Why did Cecily and Ernest break off their first engagement?
(a) He left for Australia
(b) She was too young
(c) He danced with another woman
(d) She danced with another man

15. Who does Chasuble cite in chastising Algernon for gluttony?
(a) St. Augustine
(b) St. Paul
(c) Dante
(d) Aristotle

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why is Miss Prism concerned by Chasuble's being in the vestry?

3. What is Miss Prism's first name?

4. How does Jack describe Algernon's eating in times of distress?

5. For how long does Cecily say she and Ernest have been engaged?

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