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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of sandwich does Algernon take from Lane?
(a) Tuna
(b) Jam
(c) Cucumber
(d) Cheese

2. What service does Lady Bracknell require of Algernon on Saturday?
(a) They must attend a French farce together
(b) He must rearrange her furniture
(c) He must tend to her shrubbery
(d) He must arrange her music

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

4. Where does Lady Bracknell send Gwendolyn while she questions Jack?
(a) The garden
(b) The carriage
(c) The dining room
(d) The study

5. Where does Algernon suggest dining instead of the Savoy?
(a) Willis's
(b) Edmund's
(c) Conrad's
(d) Trader Vic's

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lane present to Algernon while Jack sees Gwendolen out?

2. What does Algernon find decidedly unromantic?

3. In what perpetual state is Algernon, according to Jack?

4. According to Algernon, what do the lower classes lack a sense of?

5. When does Jack take the name of Ernest?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is it that Jack does not know who his parents are?

2. What is Algernon's stated opinion of love and marriage in Act I?

3. Describe Algernon and Jack's conversation concerning Cecily and Gwendolen.

4. What is Lady Bracknell's opinion of Bunbury?

5. Why are there no cucumber sandwiches at the Algernon's when Lady Bracknell arrives?

6. What clandestine declaration does Gwendolen make to Jack before she leaves?

7. Name a few of Lady Bracknell's requirements for a suitable bachelor.

8. Why does Jack intend to "kill" Ernest?

9. How does Jack Worthing's cigarette case betray his identity to Algernon?

10. Describe Algernon Moncrieff.

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