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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 does Kate say to Constance about her brother Tony?
(a) She says that she could almost love him for hating Constance so.
(b) She tells Constance that Tony walks in his sleep.
(c) She says that Tony will do anything to marry Constance.
(d) She says that Tony fancies he will marry a duchess.

2. What does Tony do when he discovers that Marlow and Hastings are hopelessly lost?
(a) He sends them headed back toward London.
(b) He offers to go with them to show the way.
(c) He gives them long, complicated directions to Hardcastle mansion.
(d) He tells them no one in those parts know a Mr. Hardcastle.

3. What dichotomy does Marlow bewail?
(a) Low class women are not bound by the reserve of upper class women.
(b) Lower class women do not expect marriage like the upper class.
(c) You cannot pay upper class women the same as you do the lower class.
(d) An impudent man may fake modesty, but a modest man cannot fake impudence.

4. What happens when Hardcastle hears a coach drive up in front of the house?
(a) He rushes the servants through their jobs one more time.
(b) He runs to sit down in the living room.
(c) He thinks it is the mail coach.
(d) He hurries out to greet Marlow.

5. What does Mr. Hardcastle say the neighbors bring back from their trips to town?
(a) Useless furniture and ugly paintings.
(b) Things for which they have no use.
(c) Bills and bad dispositions.
(d) Vanity and affectation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Hardcastle's reaction when Kate enters the room?

2. When does Mrs. Hardcastle insist will be the time for Constance to wear jewels?

3. What is the one area of agreement between Kate and Mr. Hardcastle about Marlow?

4. How does Tony calm down Constance?

5. When Kate agrees to accept the young man if he asks for her hand, how does her father tease her?

Short Essay Questions

1. Using Mr. Hardcastle's speech at the beginning of act 3, define and explain the soliloquy.

2. What does Hastings really want to discuss with Tony?

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

4. What clue does the landlord give in the muttered line that Tony is a damn'd mischievous son of a whore?

5. What is the news Mr. Hardcastle gives his daughter about her future?

6. What does Marlow say to Hastings about his ability with women?

7. How does Hastings inject himself into the argument between Tony and his mother?

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

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

10. Explain the hilarity when Mrs. Hardcastle discovers that the jewels are not where she left them.

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