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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tony tell Marlow and Hastings about the owner of the inn?

2. Hardcastle does not recognize the insults at first and attempts to do what?

3. What do Hastings and Marlow believe?

4. When Hastings offers them something already made up, what is Marlow's aside to Hastings?

5. What does the landlord say about available accommodations?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Mrs. Hardcastle sees Tony and Constance together, what does she assume?

2. Why does Hastings insist that Constance continue the ruse that they are in an inn?

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

4. Describe the argument Tony has with Mrs. Hardcastle in front of Constance and Hastings.

5. 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.

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

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

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

9. 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?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Staging of plays in Goldsmith's day was much different from the way it is today. There was no curtain. At the end of a scene, the actors all walked off the stage and the stagehands came in and changed the backdrop and the furniture. SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER has stood the test of time, however, and is still staged today. Write a paper about how you would stage the play and handle the different scene changes.

Essay Topic 2

Asides are devices used in many plays and melodramas. They are used to let the audience know what a character is thinking, to let the audience know what has happened off stage, and to whisper something to another character onstage without letting other characters know what is being said. Write a paper using asides from SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER and give your opinion as to their effectiveness and contribution to the story.

Essay Topic 3

Sarcasm is often a stock-in-trade in comedies. Sarcasm usually takes the form of using words with an underlying meaning just the opposite of what is being said. Using the dialogue between Mr. Hardcastle and his wife when they are talking about Tony, and the dialogue between Mr. Hardcastle and Kate when they are talking about Marlow, identify the sarcasm and explain why it is so funny in each case.

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