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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 suggestion is made that the landlady might do?
(a) Order them out of her house.
(b) Make them a bed on the pub floor.
(c) Let them share her bed.
(d) Give them three chairs and a bolster in front of the fireplace.

2. Who does Constance say Marlow is?
(a) The most intimate friend of her admirer, Mr. Hastings.
(b) The most eligable bachelor in London.
(c) A royal in line for the throne.
(d) The son of her father's dearest friend.

3. As the play opens, who are the two characters who enter from the right?
(a) Marlow and Hastings
(b) Kate and Marlow
(c) Mr. and Mrs. Hardcastle
(d) The maid and Mrs. Hardcastle

4. What is Hastings' double entendre about the calf brains on the menu?
(a) I supposed you had only a half a brain.
(b) Do you suggest we lack brains, sir?
(c) Let your brains be knocked out, sir, I don't like them.
(d) A brain is something missing in most houses.

5. Mr. Hardcastle is furious with Marlow. What does he say out loud to himself about the young man?
(a) That he should run him off with a pitchfork.
(b) He is the most impudent piece of brass that ever spoke with a tongue.
(c) That he must not let Kate meet the young man.
(d) That he cannot understand Sir Charles playing such a joke on him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tony come running into the room to announce?

2. What does Mr. Hardcastle expect from Diggory who was brought into the house from his work in the barn?

3. What dichotomy does Marlow bewail?

4. Giving up on following Tony's directions, what does Marlow do?

5. Of what does Marlow envy Hastings?

Short Essay Questions

1. Tony has the landlord give the directions which no one could possibly follow. What fun do they have when Marlow asks for a room at the Three Pigeons?

2. Describe Tony Lumpkins' problem with his mother and Miss Neville.

3. How do Marlow and Hastings treat Mr. Hardcastle at what they suppose is an inn?

4. Tell how Tony describes the Hardcastle family.

5. Discuss the initial conversation between Hastings and Mrs. Hardcastle.

6. How does the audience get a picture of Tony Lumpkin before he even enters the stage?

7. What is Mr. Hardcastle's first impression of Marlow and his friend Hastings?

8. Describe how Tony sees his chance to get back at his stepfather when the landlord says there are two gentlemen looking for Hardcastle's house.

9. Why is Mr. Hardcastle training his servants?

10. What is happening simultaneously as Tony runs in with the casket of jewels?

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