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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jack tell Algernon has happened to Bunbury?
(a) He has exploded
(b) He has found a proper nurse
(c) He has moved away
(d) He has recuperated

2. How many pounds does Ernest owe the Savoy?
(a) 762
(b) 1,560
(c) 255
(d) 1,084

3. What does Chasuble claim was the reference in his unintentionally romantic comment to Miss Prism?
(a) Bears
(b) Bees
(c) Fish
(d) Swans

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

5. What is Cecily's constant distraction?
(a) Her appetite
(b) The gardener
(c) Her narcolepsy
(d) Her diary

6. About whom has Algernon - as Ernest - been talking to Cecily?
(a) Lady Bracknell
(b) Jack
(c) Bunbury
(d) Miss Prism

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

8. Immediately after proposing to Cecily, who does Algernon seek out?
(a) Jack
(b) Lady Bracknell
(c) Miss Prism
(d) Chasuble

9. Why will Cecily not allow Algernon to read her diary?
(a) She intends to publish it
(b) It is improper
(c) It is in secret language
(d) It is all about him

10. Where does Cecily get her ideas for her diary?
(a) In the garden
(b) From Miss Prism's reading
(c) In her room
(d) At church

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

12. What German writer is Cecily studying at the top of Act II?
(a) Schiller
(b) Hegel
(c) Schopenhauer
(d) Goethe

13. As she copies Algernon's words into her diary, what does Cecily chastise him for doing?
(a) Mumbling
(b) Staring
(c) Laughing
(d) Coughing

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

15. What does Cecily do with the scissors?
(a) Cut a rose for Algernon
(b) Cut a thread from the hem of her skirts
(c) Prune a bush while Algernon eats
(d) Scare off Algernon's advances

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Algernon suggest Jack not get christened?

2. What is Algernon eating at the end of the Act?

3. What lunch has Jack traditionally been enjoying of late?

4. What workman's item does Gwendolen claim never to have seen?

5. How does Cecily have letters from Ernest?

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